from Christ it was not a good place to live. Mountain experiences are not to be an end in themselves, but are for use in the valley amid suffering and duty. "If I be lifted up," said Christ, "I will draw all men." Of course, direct reference was made to His death. But the Christian who can say, with Paul, "I am crucified with Christ, yet I live, and the life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me," lifts up the Christ, and this life-lifted Christ cannot but draw men. The Christian is himself the Church's best advertisement. EDITORIAL (Continued from page 17.) to the status of a child. Let us be as innocent as they, as full of faith as they, as loving as they and as guileless. We all of us look forward to a time when, this earthly struggle o'er, we may join the choir invisible, but we shall have no part nor lot in the blessing of the next world unless we have the Christmas spirit in our hearts, not only today but always. The mission of Jesus would never have been accomplished if He had descended a fullgrown man. It is because He was a child that He has conquered the world. It is because He was born of a woman that we have fellowship with Him. So let us give up our hardness of heart, our petty selfishness, our larger and grosser sins and rise to the height of a child. LUTHER LEAGUE TOPICS (Continued from page. 27.) ought to be taking some measures to put down the Christians. But he was found going to the High Priest and desiring of him letters of authority so that he himself might go down to Damascus and bring up the Christians bound unto Jerusalem. The same characteristics that Jesus found in Paul, He desires to find in Christian workers today-knowledge, both of the past history of His people and of present conditions in the world; definite convictions, as to what is truth and what is not; energy, that fails not at any undertaking so long as it be in the name of the Lord; and above all humility of spirit and earnestness of religious purpose. Jesus needs such men today through whom to reveal Himself anew unto mankind. The world has just passed through a period in which men have been going their own ways and devising their own gods. But God seems bending a little closer to earth today. Will He find young men and young women as earnest as Saul EB Published Monthly by LUTHER LEAGUE REVIEW, 318 W. 39th Street, New York City. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 9, 1900, at Post Office, New York, N. Y., under Act of Mar. 3, 1879. Subscription price, 60 cents per year. T Of America "Of the Church, By the Church, For the Church" Official Call for the Fourteenth National Convention Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 13, 14, 15, 1920 HE Luther League of America has accepted the invitation of the Luther REPRESENTATION. Any society of whatever name, connected with a Lutheran congregation or a Lutheran institution of learning, and District and State organizations whose admission shall have been recommended by the Committee on Credentials, are entitled to membership with representations as follows: Each society admitted to membership shall be entitled to one delegate, each District League to three delegates, and each State or Territorial organization to ten delegates. Delegates to the Convention are expected and required to present properly certified credentials. The credentials should be signed by the President and Secretary of each organization, whether State, District or Local League. Delegates will be asked to pay a REGISTRATION FEE of $1.00. CREDENTIALS. Credential blanks for delegates should be secured at once by State, District and Local Officers from the General Secretary. All credentials should be filled out in duplicate, one part being sent to the General Secretary and the other part retained by the delegate for presentation to the Credential Committee at Fort Wayne. Uniform blank forms will be sent upon request. Credentials should be sent to the General Secretary not later than July 1st. GENERAL INFORMATION. The arrangement of the program is in charge of a sub-committee of the Executive Committee. An announcement of same will be made in the near future in the REVIEW. THE LUTHER LEAGUE REVIEW will furnish official information each month relative to the Convention and after the Convention will publish a CONVENTION NUMBER containing full reports of the proceedings. Subscriptions should be made now to secure the pro-Convention Number of the REVIEW and also the CONVENTION NUMBER. Particulars as to hotels and other local arrangements will be furnished in due season by the local Convention committee. At this convention will be celebrated the TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Luther League of America. Arrange your vacation to include July 13, 14, 15, and spend it at Fort Wayne. By direction of the Executive Committee. HARRY HODGES, General Secretary, 846 Drexel Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. I Luther League An Old Historic Town IN a beautiful and fertile valley near the famous battlefields of South Mountain and Monocacy, sixty miles northwest of Baltimore, is located the quaint city of Frederick. It has a number of educational institutions, manufacturing establishments of different kinds, and is surrounded by a magnificent agricultural district. Frederick has been made famous by Whittier, as the scene of the exploits of Barbara Frietchie. Francis Scott Key, the author of "The Star Spangled Banner," is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. A splendid monument to him marks its entrance. The remains of Roger B. Taney also are buried in Frederick. Washington met Braddock here in 1765 to prepare for the expedition against the French. Robert Strawbridge nearby, in 1764, organized a Methodist Church which is styled "The first in Maryland and America." Frederick was settled first in 1745, and in 1817 it was incorporated. On July 9, 1755, General Braddock, in a desperate fight with the French and Indians, was killed while directing the battle from his horse. At Frederick in 1753 at the time of the French and Indian war, General Braddock, Colonel George Washington and Governor Sharpe planned the campaign into western Pennsylvania against the French and Indians, which resulted so disastrously on the fateful field of Great Meadows to the English generals. George Washington, then a civil engineer, at this time laid out the route from Baltimore to Cumberland, and along this road the first houses of Frederick were built. This route surveyed by Washington in later years became known as the National Pike. Patrick Street, Frederick, is a part of this old road. The soldiers of Braddock and Washington marched back and forth over this old road. On the trolley line from Frederick to Braddock Heights is an old spring a few miles out of town known as Braddock's Springs today. The old spring, just a few miles out of Frederick, furnished water to the Indians and later served the colonial troops under Braddock. The city of Frederick gave her sons to the colonial wars, to the cause of the Revolution, and again they enrolled in the common cause of the country against the British. In 1814, about the close of the war of 1812 between England and the United States, which was America's second war of independence from British domination, Francis Scott Key gave to the country the memorable anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In 1914 the country celebrated the centennial of the "Star Spangled Banner" and Baltimore was the center of these anniversary events, but Francis Scott Key's remains lie under a beautiful monument in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick. During the War of 1812 the British occupied as headquarters the old building used as a cabinet and shoe shop of the Maryland Deaf and Dumb Institute, which was also used as a hospital during the Civil War. The Old Stone Barracks built in 1750 in Frederick, for use for the troops of Braddock and Washington, is still standing, and is a quaint old structure. The Braddock Springs, on the route to Braddock Heights, is used to-day. It is the purpose of the patriotic women of Frederick to place a suitable marker at this spring. It was at the town of Frederick that Benjamin Franklin and George Washington first met, and in 1824 this city most heartily entertained Washington's friend and admirer, the Marquis de Lafayette. Barbara Frietchie, whom Whittier has immortalized, lived on Patrick Street on the bank of the stream that runs through Frederick. Whether or not the details of Whittier's poem are true in all particulars, it nevertheless remains a fact that Barbara Frietchie lived in Frederick and was much beloved. Recently her remains were removed from the Old Reformed cemetery to Mount Olivet cemetery and a tablet marks the place where her home used to be and where she was supposed to wave the Stars and Stripes on that eventful (Continued on page 13) THE BY REV. PAUL H. KRAUSS, Department Secretary, Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church. HE eighth International Student Vol- delegations. Perfect arrangements greeted unteer Convention was held in Des Moines, Iowa, from December 31, 1919, to January 4, 1920. It was one of the great religious events of the present student generation. Six thousand Ameri can college students representing over eight hundred colleges, seminaries and normal schools, from thirty-seven different lands, all interested in Foreign Missions! Stand with me on the edge of the platform that stretches across the convention hall, so vast that human beings seem dwarfed in it. Behind you on the platform are massed six hundred of the veteran missionaries from the far-flung missionary battle line of the heathen world. Before you, behold, a wonderful sight! Beginning with a solid section of foreign students in the section down in front of you and sweeping back row after row stretches a sea of eager young faces, tier upon tier on either side and far back, and up, gallery after gallery, to where the faces become indistinct pale spots in the semi-darkness under the rafters. Hear that mighty chorus of young souls and veteran Christian soldiers sing their Convention Hymn, as I heard them sing it on the last night of the convention: Lead on, O King Eternal, the day of march has come, Henceforth in fields of conquest Thy tents shall be our home, Through days of preparation Thy grace has made us strong, And now, O King Eternal, we lift our battle song, and if it bring not a stir to your pulse or a sob to your throat there is something wrong with both your emotions and your imagination. For it means more than simply song and stirring speech and stimulated senses. Since the Movement was founded by Mr. Wilder in 1886 over eight thousand young college men and women have gone forth to the far places of the earth to "make disciples of all nations," or over seventy-five per cent. of all the missionaries sent out by all the boards of the Protestant churches in America! (The Student Volunteer Movement is not a sending agency; it directs all candidates to Church Boards.) The six thousand delegates at this convention were the picked representatives of the college students of the United States, and Canada. They came from all over North America, and not a few from foreign lands. All roads seemed to run into Des Moines that Wednesday morning before the New Year, and scores of Pullman trains unloaded their cheering, shouting them. The people of Des Moines threw open their homes and their churches. Our own St. John's Lutheran Church, Rev. A. B. Leamer, pastor, deserves particular praise for its hospitable service to the convention. A splendid program had been arranged, inspirational and missionary in character. All the prominent missionary leaders and many of the great Christian preachers of the day were present, and from the first stroke of the gavel on Wednesday afternoon till the last benediction on Sunday night a high point of interest was maintained. Great sermons were preached by Dean Brown of Yale, Bishop McDowell Dr. J. I. Vance and Dr. Truitt. The challenge of the missionary needs was presented by such authorities as Robert E. Speer, Samuel Zwemer, G. Sherwood Eddy and Mrs. H. B. Montgomery. It was emphasized that the Christian Mission Fields of the world were short 5,000 missionaries. Twenty-five hundred were needed in those mission fields that had been occupied by the Germans, 500 English and American missionaries had died or come home, and the usual normal increase of 2,000 in the six year period had been cut off entirely by the war. The whole tone of the convention was thoroughly evangelical. The inspirational addresses had Christ at their center. The shadow of war was felt, and the memory of its heroisms and sacrifices pointed many an appeal and furnished many illustrations. The keynote of sacrifice for Christ was struck on the opening Wednesday night when Dean Brown began his masterly address. "During the war you and I used to sing 'We won't come back till it's over, over there.' Well, the war is technically over, but it isn't 'over, over there' and it isn't over, over here." He pictured a world worn with war, burdened with debt, disturbed by the recrudescence of national hates and jealousies and industrial unrest. He pictured a world punished for its worship of science and lust for pleasure and neglect of God, a world that had dismissed the devil and salved its conscience by foolish philosophies. He presented Christ as the only possible Saviour, and His sacrificial spirit as the only possible remedy. This thought was the underlying note of the addresses. A full generation was rounded out in this convention, and special mention was made of the slogan "The Evangelization of (Continued on page 34) |