Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-10-03
LUTHERANs OF THE PIEDMONT
Meeting Was Held ut
Greenwood Last Week.
Greenwood journal, lst.)


The Piedmont Conference of the
Evangelical Lutheran Synod OF South
Carolina met in Emmanuel Lutheran
church on Saturday and closed sun
day afternoon. The attendance was
good. The Saturday session was de-
voted TO business OF conference, it be-
ing the purpose Of conference to de-
vote the Lords day only to religious
service.
The program consisted in the dis
cusston or topics on the 4OOth ami
Fersary OF the Reformation and
sermon on the same subject. The
Holy Communion was also observed
by large congregation.
The topic, Luther the Man and
PREACHER was we'll discussed by
Rev. w. b. Aull, Of Walhalla, as was
also the topic, "The Church Before
and After the Reformation" by Rev.
Z. l.. Miller. Of Greenville.
1t was shown that while Luther
was man with flesh and blood and
llke other men, had his faults and
maze mistakes. he was, however,
used OF God to accomplish much in
his private and public life which all
Professionalism should anpreciate,
His spiritual life as we'll as its fruits
constitute spiritual river which will
continue to flow through time, re-
freshing and enriching life wherever
1t touches it.
Ihe facts were we'll presented by
Rev. c. l.. Miller that the Protestant
church IN her evangelical teaching
dates back to the time Of Christ and
stands upon the divine truth taught
by Christ; but four hundred years
ago was the date when the protest
was raised against the mother
church, when she left the teachings
OF the Word of God and allowed
abuses to come in and established
the doctrine OF men instead OF the
doctrine OF Christ, and placed the
Pope as the vicegerent Of Christ on
earth. that Luther, enlightened by
knowledge Of the Word OF Cod
through the spirit. raised his protest.
and the Evangelical mobiles In 1890
repeated In formal protest at Diet
or Augsburg, which resulted in tho,
adoption Of the Augsburg confession,
the fundamental confession, whichY
made sure to the Protestant World
liberty OF consct tenee 3ins ciyil and Vres,
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datton for a democratic form Of gov.
ernment and free access to God
through Christ-the same church be-
fore as after, with the abuses and
man-made restriction cast aside. The
Protestant church, he said, Is the in
heritor or the pure Gospel OF church
which alone can save the world.
. The sermon by Rev. Miller was n
strong plea for the proper apprecia-
ton OF the great opportunity and re-
sponsibility Of the Protestant church
or to-day to carry out the commits
sion of Christ TO evangelize the
world.
The most important action of con-
ference was the memorializing Of the
Home Mission Board to send an as
sistant to help the pastors who are
near the cantonments at Greenyille
and Spartanburg to look after the
young men especially under the care
of our church and in a general way
assisting in the spiritual welfare OF
ala work too much for our local
pastors.
(The conference was attended by
Rev. w. B. Aull, OF the Walhalla
church, with Otto Schumacher. IT..
John Kuemmerer and Miss Maggie
Brandt representing the member
ship.)