Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1917 — Mission Festival. [ARTICLE]

Mission Festival.

The Ev. Luth. St. John’s congregation, northeast of Parr, will celebrate its annual mission festival on next Sunday, the 9th, 8% miles north and 2 miles west of Rensselaer, in a grove opposite the Center school house in Union township. The missionary work of our synode is very extensive-and varied. We carry on missions not only in our own country, but also in many foreign lands, in Indiana, in Asia, in China, on the other side of the globe, in distant Australia and New Zealand. We have missions in England and Germany, in Canada and in Brazil and the Argentine Republic. Add to these the missions in our own country that are conducted among the negroes, Indians, Esthonians, Lithuanians, Poles, Persians, and Jews, and among those unfortunates, the deaf mutes. In our large cities we have slum missions; also missions for the immigrants in the ports of New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Porto Alegre and Buenos Aires. These missions are earned on in most all languages now mostly spoken. . . . .. The object of our mission festivals is to create and to foster the missionary spirit and zeal among all. This missionary spirit is a spirit of thankfulness towards God for the mercies bestowed upon us through Jesus Christ, and of love and compassion towards our fellow men who have not yet heard, or who no longer hear, the saving Gospel of Chnst. Wherever this missionary spirit is found, there will be also missionary zeal, the burnihg desire to carry the gospel of grace to those afar off, and thus to bring them to Christ and salvation. There also the hands wil be willing, even anxious, to offer all that is needed to carry oh this holy campaign for the glory of Christ and the salvation of sinners. This is the primary object of our mission festivals. Services will take up at 10 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. The foreign service will be conducted in the German language by the Rev. H. A. C. Paul from Denham, Ind., a. well known pastor of this community. The Rev. H. E. Stuehm, also a prominent pastor, from Logansport, Ind., will have charge of the afternoon service, delivering a short sermon followed by an< English address. The ladies of this and the Kniman congregation will serve a luncheon. Refreshments may. be had at the stand. All are cordially ifivited to attend. H. F. KROHN, Pastor.