Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-02
To Consider Grand
Forks As Location OF
Seminary For The
Lutheran Synod
Missionary Program.
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l ~ . H .F +TlES .-' r
A special missionary program was
given last evening. The first address
was on the subject, Does the Luther
Where is it?' by Rev. Chas. l. Grant,
pastor of Faith Lutheran church, st:
Paul, MINI. He said in part:
1.-The religion OF Jesus is pre-emi-
nently missionary. 1t is easier to
conceive OF. a bumper crop of. cocoa
nuts from the vast wheat fields of
your grand state OF North Dakota
than to conceive of a Christianity as
it was lived and taught by Christ
which does not reach out for the re-
demption of all men. II the great
Lutheran church has no missionary
field. she has no right to exist. The
church hat does not missionate is
committing suicide. Her claims for
purity Of doctrine may be big, but her
practice would be- like that OF the
young lady Who called out Of her lit
tie, store, Mary, we've all been con-
verified. so if you wan groceries on
Sunday, you've got to come in the
bach yard
1--WE have gotten away from the
peanut-headed idea that we were
sent out to gather in Lutherans. We
were no more dispatched by Jesus to
gather in exclusively people who poss
by a certain name. than we were
called upon to group people accord
ing to the length of their noses. In
my congregation in st. Paul, in sev-
en- years we have taken in over l.
900 members. and in that number are
Irishmen, Scotchmen, Englishmen,
Germans. Danes, swedes. Norwegians,
Jews Polish. Frenchmen and Ameri-
cans. Our delegate to this convention
is Mr.. Sam Fullerton, the executive
secretary of the Humane Society for
the state of Minnesota, an Irfshman,
born in Ireland.
"The Lutheran church breaches in
more than 80 languages outside of
the mission fields. She takes her
gospel of light and life through tho.
great northwest, and has established
~ stations recently in Saskatchewan,
Alberta and Manitoba, but she doesn't
stop at the Pacific.
I Marlatte Spoke.
What is the Attitude of the Lu-
theran Church Towards Missions?"
was the subject of the address given
by Rev. ]. f. Marlatte, pastor Of the
Church of the Redeenser, Minneapo-.
lis. He said in part:
What we need is the pioneer mis-
sionary spirit and the faith that we
as English Lutherans have yet a mis-
sion on this territory. Let us not .di-
vorce ourselves from the spirit Of
American Lutheranism.' Rev. Mars
latte pied for an interest in the Wom-
ans Missionary Society's work. He
urged all the societies to affiliate with
that large body.
DR.. NJ. j. Bieber, synodical superin-
tendent OF. missions, spoke next on
The Ideal Mission Congregation"
He said in part: Such a congre-
cation does not exist as little as a
perfect person exists, but the ideal is.
l~proached. There is but n reason
for the existence Of the church, viz.
the sabatim of the world. That must
be the ideal of every congregation.
To attain this. there are certain re.
quisites.
Il. The pastor must be, . person
after Gods own heart, clean In habits,
, attire, conversation and life. abreast
Of the times, q leader among. his
people and In the community.
"2 The manner Of organizing the
congregation must be correct. "A CON
gregations like q child has q right to
lbe we'll born, properly fed and hous-
ed. Dance balls and .theaters for
mission churches Will no longer do
iChurchly buildings must be provid-
ed at once. and the proper literature
secured. II
!" The congregation must be ideal
Yin Its. giving. Every individ ual who
saved wants to help others. He
will practice Christian Stewardship.
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