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We remember being chilled with horror when we read about it.

They spared no effort to control.

To preach Christ was their one vocation which, like Aaron's rod, swallowed up all other rods.

[Numbers 17:6-8]

To vow obedience.

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My gratitude is more than I can put in words.

It will cause every loyal American to boil with indignation.

Betrayed by hireling shepherds.

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They came from sister-congregations with letters of transfer.

It pales into insignificance.

To many the Christmas-message, "Peace on earth" sounds like grim mockery.

If we would understand all the Bible says this would prove it to be man's word only, but God's word we do not always understand.

They try to attune the public mind to the new song.

The exceptions to this rule merely serve to accentuate the rule.

"And a new song is in my mouth, To long loved music set, Glory to thee for all the grace I have not tasted yet."

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His own self-contained glory.

It was eagerly adopted and hungrily swallowed by many in high places and low places.

The Lutheran church preaches the gospel of Christ crucified for the sins of a lost world.

They call themselves Calvinist in contradistinction to the Lutherans.

Eph. 2,14. {German Writing}

Eph. 2,13.

Eph. 2,8:9 {German Writing}

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The world war was an insane war.

Wilson shamed the good name of America and blackened his own reputation.

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All that is merely human must fall into the cold grasp of death, and smolder in the dark, silent tomb.

We walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor 5,7.

If death not yet appear what we shall be. 1 Joh. 3,2.

The grave is the limit of Satan's activity; but there it is where divine activity begins. This is a glorious truth. Satan has the power of death; [Hebrews 2:14] but God is the God of the living [Mark 12:27]; and He give life beyond the reach and power of death, - a life which…

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… Satan cannot touch.

The Devil can destroy. There his power ends.

O death, where is thy sting?

O grave, where is thy victory?

1 Cor 15,55.

Jeremiah 1,17-19.

Jeremiah 1,9.

Human expediency would have conducted Moses along quite an opposite path. It would have led him to use his influence on behalf of the people of God - to act for them - instead of suffering with them.

I will guide thee with mine eye. Psalm 32,8.

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"Unto Him ye shall hearken."

Deuteronomy 18,15.

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The church has an inclined floor.

We place the very existence of our parochial school system into gravest jeopardy if we insist on instructing in German only.

He misreads us badly who regards the situation created by the war as the only reason or even the main reason, why we approve of the Texas District resolution, which advises that preference be given to English as the language of religious instruction.

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At the manger - cradle in Bethlehem

a chaser of shadows,

a lambent flame

Two thirds of our citizens, more than 66,000,000 of them, are professedly churchless, confessedly ignorers of Him who sitteth in the heavens.

Lutheran Synods are affected by the changes which the war is working in the language-situation.

They suffered the same fate.

It is but sham and hypocrisy.

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When the chaff has been winnowed out, there is very little wheat left. [Psalm 1:4-6]

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It played a conspicuous part in the remarkable advancement.

To wield a world-wide rule.

Other duties pale into insignificance before this.

As citizens the path is clear, we are treading it.

Fan the fire into a glow.

We must hang our heads in everlasting shame and admit that we were derelict.

churches are man-less

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His Ghost has been conjured forth.

It created a furore in the South.

We must not relax our vigilance.

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We might step into a cunningly laid trap which the devil has laid for us.

The strict accountability to which we will be held.

cordial co-operation,

infections diseases

To give his threat proper weight.

He spent his health to get his wealth,

And then wish might and main.

He turned around and spent his wealth,

To get his health again.

Abysmal self-conceit.

Let us play our vows.

Jesus allowed no neutrality. He said: "He that is not with me is against me." [Matthew 12:30]

[Mark 9:40] [Luke 9:50, 11:23]

We must place all our trust in Christ.

The mind of man is fruitful in devices to cover his humiliation.

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Let us resolve to live the life that Jesus asks. Let us go while the door stands wide open, the night sweeps on apace, tomorrow may be too late. [Matthew 25:10]

[Luke 11:7,10, 13:25]

Compatriots

perdure = continue for a long time, last forever

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As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.

It necessitates a nurture which is specifically Christian. This we have in our Christian day-schools.

There are few weapons of Satan so potent as flattery.

The honeyed lips of flattery. The Siren-song of flattery lulls us into sleep.

[Job 17:5 (King James Version)]

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We have all reason to fear the demoralizing influence of flattery.

vilification

We are all susceptible to flattery. Is that only a silly weakness? No, a dangerous one.

The prince of this world is stirring his fires.

This untoward generation.

A study of the situation on the foreign field reveals a condition most similar to that obtaining at home.

Man on the lowest scale of brestish {sp?} abasement.

The false glitter of a higher culture.

He perpetually creates for himself a life of care.

This historian who searches the records of bygone ages.

Everywhere we see the unvarying and melancholy spectacle of man opposed to man.

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This world is the home of woe.

It beseems us.

intrinsic merit

thinly disguised self-praise

it accords with our views.

it is bad, because we dissent;

we are disposed to look upon.

to take refuge with one.

unruffled repose.

We were as our hymn has worded it: "Bankrupt debtors."

I will put the flight to all our cares.

We cannot hope to escape a merited retribution.

[Matthew 23:33] [Romans 2:3] [1 Thessalonians 5:3]

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Question: What fur does a lady wear a fur around her neck fur? Answer: For fur.

It can only stoke the fires of mutual hate.

When Christ was born, He lay in a virgin's womb [Matthew 1:23], and when He died, He was placed in a virgin tomb. [Matthew 27:59-60]

How can we cede homage to other masters?

We do not receive such information with easy credence.

The famous decree nationalizing women (legalized free love) was in force only in one province and only for a time.

Mergers are all right if on the right basis, "namely, docrinal agreement. But if not then …

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… to quote Kranth, it is "a union that unifies things to pieces."

The law says: "Do and live"; the gospel says: "Live first, then do."

Men have called up evil spirits, they have roused race riots, the passions were inflamed - but evil spirits will not be dismissed at will.

Is there in us any insincerity, any duplicity, any deceit?

A panacea for the world's ills.

They were admitted into membership with the District.

Toilsome services.

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Since 1914 I have seen our people lashed into frenzy again and again by stories which I knew to be lies, - by ushers which were only halftruths, by vitriolic lecturers who did not know what they were talking about and had swallowed everything handed them in Europe.

To die an inglorious death.

Flirty-hearted miserliness , Mammon worship and belly-service, belly-slave, glutton.

treasure-trove {German Writing}

an outworn idea

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It is not science that contradicts the Bible, but the scientists.

The plaudits of the multitude.

Plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures.

Evil that plague our poor world today.

Pharisaic hypocrisy.

An unleashing of armed anarchy.

We are not at all apt to receive such information with easy credence.

To gouge out the eyes of victims.

If my memory serves me right.

If we must choose between the autocracy of one tyrant and the mobocracy of many tyrants, …

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… we will do well to choose autocracy.

To curry favor with.

Congregations and preaching-places.

Preaching-stations.

The church itself was largely made use of as an instrument in the hands of scheming politicians to fan the flames of hatred and revenge.

The ideal has been shattered into fragments, together with other high-sounding pretexts.

We will grasp these opportunities; we will discharge these obligations.

actualization

The devil is an exceedingly artful trickster.

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It substitutes in the room of it the ungrounded fancies of a man's own brain.

Enthusiasm is that state of mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgement.

It is trite to say that we are in a state of profound unrest and uncertainty.

The feeling is well nigh universal and is held among all classes that something portentous is bound to occur

It is for time to tell.

We believe not in some men owning all the property but in all men owning some property.

They prate so glibly about Christian principles.

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Hades is paved with good intentions.

Close communion {German Writing}

A topnotch price.

Saber-rattling French militarists.

Malodorous henchmen.

England, the great white-souled advocate of peace.

A heart-touching appeal.

They would be torn with hatred for one another by purely foreign…

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… and wholly un-American causes.

To put a motion to the vote.

The Lutheran Church can bear comparison with any church.

They are unacquainted with the simplest facts of Reformation history.

Quite to the contrary.

Gross misinterpretation.

History however gives ample proof.

This interpretation is untenable.

Luther at Worms before the Diet declared: "Unless convinced by Scriptural testimonies or by clear reason" Some are of the…

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… opinion Luther recognized two sources of religious knowledge, - Scripture and human reason. This statement however meant: "Unless convinced by Scripture testimonies or by logically correct deduction from these testimonies, he cannot retract. The phrase: "scripture et ratione" involves the twofold problem of proving a thing scriptural as to contents and logical as to form.

[2 Corinthians 11:4] [Galatians 1:8] [2 John 1:10]

Accordingly Luther demanded proofs that would show him teaching to be either contrary to Scripture or contrary to logic. He never thought of making reason a second source of religious knowledge in addition to Revelation.

[Mark 7:7-8]

Luther's attitude toward Scripture previous to the year 1521 does not admit of another interpretation.

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God's Word is the sword we must wield in order to ward off all enemies. [Ephesians 6:17]

That which is contained in Scripture or derived by necessary and plain deduction from its contents a Christian need not believe.

A statement in canonical Scripture is more authoritative than an assertion of the Christian church.

Articles of faith must be verified by Scriptures.

The teaching of the church must fully coincide with the Bible. [Mark 7:8]

Rather stand with Scripture.

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Against the church, than with the church against the Scripture.

To this decision Luther came.

Luther always clearly and forcefully exposed opposition to human authority, or to man's own reason and proclaimed the sole authority of the Scriptures.

The Romans are accustomed to accommodate the words of the Bible to the words of the church fathers.

At Worms Luther did not introduce human reason as a second source of religious knowledge.

Blessed are the wedded pair who as they walk together can say: "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." [Psalm 119:105]

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Because God's Word is spoken the church comes into being.

The church does not make the Word, she is created by the Word. [John 1:1-3]

Luther did not chain his followers to himself.

The trenchant force of this logic.

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Flaming protest.

To fan the spark into a flame.

God has so signally blessed us.

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Wolfish selfishness.

To put to a vote.

Irrespective of language.

I move the acceptance of the report.

I move the adoption of the resolution.

Carried unanimously by a rising vote.

In contravention of the laws of warfare prescribed by the Hague convention and in violation of the pledges solemnly made during the war, that the right of small nations should be recognized.

Even a chicken-brained sob-sister (male and female …