The Lutheran from Eureka, Kansas • 1

The Lutheran Number 1 KANSAS, 1900. Volume III. Getting Our Own. The New York Independent in its first number for the New Year, presents the statistics of all the churches. Ac cording to these figures our Lutheran branch has advanced one point and now holds third place among the Protestant denominations of this country.

We are Honor Koll. I In the Sunday School last quarter it was found that thirteen on the roll had been present every Sunday. These were Mrs. M. L.

Errickson, Mrs. Anna Barger, Mrs. Ellen A. Kenner, H. F.

Rizer, Irene Errickson, Dorothy Harney, Mabel Lewis, Erma Errickson, Louise Kenner, Ruth Lewis, Grant Gullickson, Charles Gullickson, Sim Maloy. These were all appropriately badged and and buttoned. Two children, Louise Kenner and Irene Errickson, were present every Sunday during 1899 and received as an additional1 a handsome purple badge and medal Published Monthly in the Interest of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Greenwood County. R. B.

WOLF, EDITOR. Subscription 25c. a year Address, The Lutheran, Eureka, Kansas Entered at the Postofflce at Eureka, Kansas as second class matter. Christ Enp Lutheran Clnrcl, EUREKA. R.

B. WOLF, Pastor. SUNDAY SERVICES. Morning Service ....11:00 Sunday School 12:00 getting our own place in the ranks. The four leading churches now stand in this order: Methodist, Baptist, Luth- eran and Fiesoyterian; ana oi meao ours has made the largest proportionate gain during the year and the indica This is a nice record to make.

It is Quite an accomplishment and we con gratulate these little girls on their suc tions are that we will crowd the leaders in due time. The gains of the Lutheran church are not spasmodic, but her progress is a steady onward march. Moreover, she is gleaning in legitimate fields. The accessions are not coming from inroads upon the territory of other denominations. Her own inheritance and the unseated lands in the wilds alone are the scenes of her operations.

Her success is due to the fact that she is getting cess We are glad they had tne disposition to be present and glad that neith-erjsickness nor accident interfered with them in it. Mrs. Anna Barger, Mrs. M. L.

Errickson, H. F. Rizer and S. A. Petterson missed but one Sunday in the year, each.

Young People's Meeting Evening 7:43 PRAYER MEETING. Wednesday 7:45 CHURCH COUNCIL. Elders: S. A. Peterson, G.

M. Rizer. Deacons: H. F. Rizer, M.

L. Errickson. TRUSTEES. W. H.

Barger, C. Gullickson, H. Zilley. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Superintendent R.

B. Woll Assistant Supt Mrs Ellen A. Kenner swn-ptarv Miss Katherine Crebo Officers Elected. At the congregational meeting, January 3, S. A.

Petterson was elected elder T. P.rriokson deacon, and H. G. A.TJ, Zilley trustee. These brethren were in stalled at the morning service Sunday, Treasurer J- Seawright Mre.

Anna Barger YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY. President Ollie Petterson Secretary. Miss Florence Zilley Organist. Miss Katherine Crebo January 11. It belongs now to every one of us to make the labors of these officers as light as possible, and not to add to their burden.

It is important that we have the right kind of church officers, but it is of vastly more import that we have the right kind of church members. Let us all do our part and "act the man." LADIES' AID SOCIETY. Mrs. C. E.

Osman Vice President Mrs. S. A. Petterson Secretary Mrs. Anna Barger Mrs.

M. L. Errickson her own. The accessions are coming from the Sunday school, tne unsaved world and the brethren of our faith from beyond the seas. In this latter source we have an opportunity which is practically our own and we are endeavoring to meet it as fully as we can.

And we are getting our own in yet another respect, and that is in the matter of literary recognition. Literary men have done us scant justice. English writers have with few exceptions practically ignored us. The romances and some of the histories of the Revolutionary period would seem to indicate that there were but two elements in the founding of this country, the Puritan of the north and the Cavalier of the south. An exception is found in -Rich-ard Carvel," in which the references to the Lutheran church though inadequate are very creditable.

In this -Mr. Churchill has the excellent exanmles of Shakespeare and Dickens and is him- self soon to have followers. The manic influence though unassertive has been too effective and too patent to be successfully obscured. We are getting our own. LADIES' MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

tiri0nt E. Osmun Vice President S. A. Peterson Secretary Mrs. Mollie F.

Smith Treasurer. Mrs. Anna Barger The fall of the year for Home Missions mid-winter for Foreign Missions; this is the order in which we consider them. We endeavor to classify our church work. In an orderly manner the different objects are taken up in succession and we do what we can for them, no more and we trust no less.

Our Foreign Mission Day will be observed on Sunday, February 18. Let us not forget our mission is to "go into all the world and preich the Gospel to every creature." For Young Peoples topics and leaders see next to last page. Baptized. Max Theodore Fischer, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore Fischer, of Eureka, born October 4, 1899, baptized December 31, 1899..