Hymns and Sunday School Compiled by HAROLD LEWARS Sunday school workers in our churches will be greatly pleased with the announcement of the publication of our new Sunday school hymnal. Critics pronounce it the best selection of Sunday school music with which they are acquainted. Its publication marks a distinct advance in the history of our Church. It consists of about 275 carefully chosen hymns, songs and anthems, representing the entire hymnology of the Christian Church, and adapted to the medium voice. It can be used with equal profit by the small rural school, the city mission and the large and well appointed congregation. Orchestration for ten instruments is being pre pared. Prices of Hymns and Songs: 35 cents a copy, boards; $30 a hundred. 45 cents a copy, cloth; $40 a hundred. Prices of Orchestration: $1 a copy. Sample copies upon application. Distinctive Doctrines and Usages of the General Bodies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States CONTENTS I. THE JOINT SYNOD OF OHIO, By Rev. M. Loy, D. D. 2. THE GENERAL SYNOD, By Pres. J. A. Singmaster, D. D. 3. THE GERMAN IOWA SYNOD, By Rev. Prof. S. Fritschel. 4. THE GENERAL COUNCIL, By Rev. Prof. H. E. Jacobs, D. D., LL. D. 5. THE SYNODICAL CONFERENCE, By Rev. Prof. F. Pieper, D. D. 6. THE UNITED SYNOD IN THE SOUTH, By Pres. A. G. Voigt, D. D., LL. D. 7. THE UNITED NORWEGIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA, By Rev. Prof. F. A. Schmidt, D. D., and Rev. J. C. Roseland. 8. THE LUTHERAN FREE CHURCH, By Rev. Prof. J. O. Evien, Ph. D. 9. THE DANISH EV. LUTH. CHURCH IN AMERICA, By Rev. Prof. P. S. Vig. The great service of this volume in its former editions was its definite and authoritative statements regarding the several branches of the Church of the Reformation. In this edition, everything is brought up to date. Five of the articles are entirely new, and all but one of the others (The Synodical Conference) have been revised, thus furnishing a volume that is unique, informing and indispensable to any student of current religious life and activity in America. Substantially bound in cloth, uniform with former editions. Price, 75 cents net. The Lutheran Publication Society, 1424 Arch Street, Philadelphia 150 Nassau St. New York First National Bank Building 159 N. State St. Chicago Ready July 1st, 1915 THE NEW AND REVISED Luther League Handbook Enlarged, Improved, Made Practical The new, enlarged and greatly improved edition of the Luther League Handbook will be ready for distribution not later than April 1, 1915. This book contains all the best information about the practical work of the League which has been gathered during several years of experience. It outlines clearly the plans and methods which have brought success to many of the strongest and most flourishing Leagues in the Church. Every officer, committee member, and active worker in every Lutheran young people's society should read carefully this helpful book. It will save you time and energy, energy, and help you win quick success in your work. It will consist of about 250 pages printed in readable type, bound substantially and attractively in cloth. 75 cents a copy, $6.00 for 10 copies LUTHER LEAGUE REVIEW, P. O. Box 876, NEW YORK IN Of the Church-By the Church-For the Church Review Lutheran Education N recent years considerable progress has been made in the educational work of the Lutheran Church. Financial campaigns have been under way in many of the general bodies for the cause of education. This is encouraging. It is as it should be. Vice now the Church is awakening to the fact that children should be reared in a way of Christian faith from the nursery upward. I believe there is in this country today a great spiritual awakening, and the Church is beginning to see that it has turned over President Marshall has well said: "There is entirely too many of its functions to the this thing wrong in many of the Churches, that, because Church and State are separate, and the states make the schools, the Church feels itself absolved from any duty in the direction of education of youth. The State is permitted to mold children from the age of six up through the time when they are going through college, where many of the professors are agnostics and atheists. But State. The Synodical Conference of the Lutheran Church has given much attention recently to education. In 1893 they established Concordia College, in St. Paul Minn., and St. John's College, in Winfield, Kan. Winfield, Kan., is 225 miles southwest of Kansas City on the Walnut River, and has a population of over six thousand. It is Concordia College, in St. Paul, was also established in 1893. St. Paul is the capital of Minnesota. It is a strong Lutheran center, at the head of navigation, about 2,300 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River. Beside Hamlin University of the Methodist Church, St. Paul's College of the German Methodists, and Macalester College of the Presbyterian Church, there is Concordia College of the Lutheran Church, and four Lutheran seminaries. The property of Concordia College is valued at $130,000. It aims to prepare students for the ministry. The average enrollment is 180 students in all departments, and since it opened in 1893 it has enrolled 650 alumni. Over five thousand volumes are in the library. It is an integral part of the far the most useful, the greatest and the best labor in the world; and, in fact, I am sometimes in doubt which of the two is the better. For you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, and it is hard to reform old sinners, yet that it what by preaching we undertake to do, and our labor is often spent in vain; but it is easy to bend and to train young trees." The German Iowa Synod has also given of its energy to the work of education. It has an educational center at Waverly, Ia. Waverly, Ia., is on the Red Cedar River. It is the commercial center of a farming and dairying business. It carries on a considerable trade in its manufactured products which include condensed milk, butter, cheese, canned goods, fruit, and paint. There is also a large beet sugar factory. It has a |