College Bulletin 1927 Apr

Pacific Lutheran College Bulletin Puhlished

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Pacific

Lutheran

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Vol. 1

Tacoma,

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AI)l llication

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second class ntatter Is

No.1

April 29, 1927

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its regular convention, our Pacific district decided to raIse an endowment fund of $250,000 for Pa­

cific Lutheran College, our Christian School. No decision has ever been made in our part of the Lutheran Church in America which will so vitally affect our future.

In the success or failure of this effort hangs in

the balance the growth or failure of our Church on the Pacific slope.

The future of our Church depends on its ministry, that promising boys of our congregations are en­ listed, trained, ordained to become the messengers of God's Gospel of Salvation.

No Church body grows

faster than its supply of pastors to conserve existing congregations and to establish new congregations where opportunity offers.

P4CIFIC a

From our own schools alone our Lutheran Church draws its sup­ LUTHERAN COLLEGE is

p..�cious heritage which the pioneers

ply of pastors. There are eleven thousand Lutheran Pastors in America

of our C[/fIreh all the Coast have Iltwdet! down 10 I eir e!tildrell. TI",y knew very 11 111111 wurk for tlte Kill!idom wUllld nOf lII uk consistellt progress without a

today. Less than three hundred were trained in non-Lutheran schools_

�cl'o,,1 for the right traillillg of workers.

Therefo,. they put their very lives into the fOllndillg of this il/stittttioll. .411£1 tltis heritage of tlteirs has pt'oved its worth. Pacific Lutherall College has for decades bee na mai" source of power for setting liP the th.-one of Christ west of the Rockies.

Surely, theil, 0111- Ch"istiall people will 1I0t suffl'" this power statioll to be dis­ malltied, this preciolls heritage to go to waste! The sacrifices allt! prayers of the pioneers mllst 1I0t be brol/ght to 1I01/ght, and the 11lissiollary progress of 0111' Church 011 the Coast be halted! /�"ay God stir liP Ilgaill the spirit of the piolleers ill the;,- /reil'S! Theil the high hopes wlrich let! to the fOlllldillg of Pacific LlIthel'al/ College will be relllized gralldly dowll thrOllgh the comillli gellel'fltiolls.

(Sigl/ed) o. E. BRANIlT.

Church today is vigorous and strong. If our Church is to carry on for

Because our fathers before us built strong Christian schools, our our

children's

children,

the

Sake

today

must

stand

schools even to the point of greatest sacrifice.

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our

Christian

The future of Pacific

Lutheran college means the future of our Church on the Pacific slope.

Futhermore, we should have a strong Christian school where any boy or girl from our congregations seeking a higher education may come and be trained efficiently without endangering their faith.

We are building our Churches not for toJay alone. building them for the young people who are growing up. not be the height of folly and blindness

These are our boys and girls studying at Pacific Lutheran College.

For

we

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to

We are Would it

allow the finest young

Many of them are· planning to become ministers of the Gospel.

Youth,

Our

Church,

All of them

Our

Our Saviour's Deep

Concern

p ople to drift away from our congregations by gOing to higher schools not of our faith or of no faith 'whatever?

Martin Luther said:

"For the right instruction of youth is a

matter in which Christ and all the world are concerned."

To have

a living, growing Church tomorrow, we must assume the burden to­ day of giving a Christian training to the boys and girls in our COI1gregatlons.

If we fail in that, our congregations tomorrow will be

weak and ineffective.

The splendid response a year ago for our great central colleges, Lmher, St. Olaf, Concordia, and Augustana, wiH surely be an in­ centive to our people on the Pacific slope to approach their greatest

THE

Pacific Dislricl htls only one Lulh-

erall Church School, Pacific LUlherat.

College 01 Pat'k!aII d, Wash. Shall we re­ spolld 10 the call which III lhis time comes to 115 10 place all" College all a perrnallelll bl/sis for a IIseflll career by creillillg iln Endowmelll FIIlld for ils tnll;',lellallee?

Lei ItS remember Ihal Ihe Deuomi'IlI' lio,wi College is Ihe hellrl of Ihe Chl/rch.

Frolll il IIIl1sl pltlstlle Ihe life·b1ood of Oltr Chrislian worke,'s ill Ihe Ch,ll'ch alltl Slale.

IVhell 0111' yOllllg people tire trailll'd 1101 Oldy illlelleeluall}, bl/I also spiritllally, by beillg placed IInde,' Ihe guiding iufillellce of Ihe stlcred WOI'lI of God dllring Ihe formalive period ill life, all awtlkelling wilhi" Ihe hClIrl may be looked for pe,·· Illillillg 10 Oltr Falher's HOl/se allil Busi· IIess.

We IIIay then hope to look fa" voltlll· leers ill the Mmy of Chrislillll workers.

Abolish Ihe Chllrch S hOI)I� and lie will evenlltolly be obli.�ed to tlbo"" all' J. . E. NAES•.

Clwrches.

hour with the faith that it can be done, 'with the conviction that it is worth doing.

To help us carry through our task, a number of men from the Middle West, tried in the 'work of our Church, are coming to give time and energy to our undertaking.

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Their interest is surely a challenge to every one of us to show

(he deepest interest in our Christian schools.

Our hour of opportunity is here.

We are facing our critical task as a

Christian people. If we are awake, if we have the sense of loyalty to sacrifice, there lies before our Church a future of promise.

If we are indifferent to the

"Church's Heart," her Christian school, our Church itself is due to fail and pass out. God grant in this critical hour to ev�ry pastor and congregation a spirit of consecration that in united strength we may face our task and carry it through to a glorious victory.

ire being trained to be loyal to their Saviour and their Church.

We

Will

Surely no sacrifice is too great to stren gthen and maintain our Christian school.

do Our

Utmost

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Our

School

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June and July are the months of opportunity for Pacific Lutheran College.

In those months every

member of the Pacific District will be personally visited for a gift for the "heart of our Church" on

the Pacific slope, our Christian school.

God stir our people to an understanding of this task, to

awaken to its supreme i mportance, to an unpftl"alleled eagerness of action and sacrifice.