# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1949 08 30_S296
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sent time. If the believers cease to support the Church, to finance it, and to give and sacrifice for it, the effect will be fateful and catastrophic — if not at once, then certainly later, perhaps very soon."

Austria at present numbers 350,000 Lutherans and 17,000 Reformed.

The "Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeindeblatt" gives the statistics of the Protestant churches in Japan. To the Church of Christ in Japan belong 1,442 pastors and 184,469 members; to the Episcopal Church 30,000 members; to the Salvation Army 9,000 members; to the Holiness Church 500 members; to the Kassui ("Water of Life") Christian Church 1,200 members; to the Seventh-day Adventists 633 members; to the Japan Baptist Union 12 congregations; to the Nazarene Church 1,450 members; to the Japan Lutheran Church 1,465 members.

The Lutheran theological school in Luandai in East Africa has taken over the training of 59 Negro students from 12 different tribes in former German East Africa. The school serves the East African Lutheran Church, which was founded by the Leipzig Mission.
Nachrichten aus der lutherischen Diaspora, presented by the Martin Luther-Bund

What Pictures "Adorn" the Walls of Your Home?

"Soon after our wedding," so relates the preacher G. Campbell Morgan, "my father came to visit. He looked around in every room of our home. Then he said to me: 'Everything is very nice, to be sure, but no one who goes through these rooms can know whether you belong to God or to the devil.' So I myself went through the rooms once more, and then I thought: He is right. At once we resolved that henceforth there should be no room in our home that did not show, by a picture or otherwise, that we serve the King of all kings."

By his surroundings, too, one can know a man. If in the homes of our Christians we find on the walls not only not a single Christian picture or the like, but even such as are offensive, that is certainly no good sign.

In Memoriam

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God. Heb. 13, 7.

Pastor Emeritus Reinhard Osthoff, who died on August 9 at Giddings, Tex., after a lengthy illness and was given Christian burial there on August 11, was born on September 13, 1873, in Berlin, Germany, the son of Georg Osthoff and his wife, née Meisner. After receiving a Christian school education and an elementary preparation for the holy ministry, he emigrated to America in the year 1893 to a sister who lived in Florida, and in the same year entered our seminary in St. Louis, where three years later he passed his examination and was then called by Trinity Congregation at La Grange, Tex. In the year 1907 he accepted the call of St. John's Congregation at Lincoln, Tex., where he served for 37 years in blessed activity. In the year 1944, however, he found himself compelled by illness to lay down the office that had become dear to him. He spent the last years of his life in Giddings.

The departed was equipped by the dear Lord with fine gifts. He had a keen mind, was a logical thinker and a thorough, solid theologian. These gifts were generally recognized and valued. The Texas District entrusted him with important and responsible offices. He was chairman of the Board of Support, then for many years Visitor, later one of the vice-presidents, and for a number of years a member of the Board of Control of our Concordia in Austin. At pastoral conferences he often served as essayist. He also presented an essay to the District (1915), namely on the theme "Divine Rules in the Calling and Transferring of Preachers and Missionaries."

In the year 1897 he married Miss Marie Diers of La Grange. This marriage was blessed with four children: Georg in La Grange, Reinhard in Dallas, Ellie and Theodor in Giddings. At the funeral service, which took place in Giddings on August 11 with many brethren in the ministry from near and far taking part, the undersigned, as a friend of the departed of many years, preached the German sermon on Mal. 2, 6, and Pastor H. A. Ströbel the English sermon on Heb. 2, 1. The latter also officiated at the grave.

"The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity." Mal. 2, 6.
H. Studtmann

New Publications

Grossie — "The Woman Everyone Loved." The Life Story of Anna K. Maier, Mother of Dr. Walter A. Maier. By Elmer A. Kettner. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. 119 pages, 5½×8. Price: $1.50.

In a very interesting way her pastor describes the life of a Christian woman who was permitted to experience God's wonderful guidance richly. In quiet and humble retirement she exercised a good Christian influence in her family circle and elsewhere, by which all who read the story of her life will now also not remain untouched. Her adorning was "the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit," of which Peter says: "which is in the sight of God of great price," 1 Pet. 3, 4.
J. H. C. F.

This Day. Published monthly by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis. Subscription price, $3.00 a year in the United States and possessions and Canada; foreign, $4.00. Single copies, 35 cents each. 48 pages, 8⅜×10¾.

This Day is a new English family magazine published by our Synod. It has now appeared for the first time, namely as the September number of this year. Since "Die Abendschule," which was edited in a Christian spirit, ceased publication many years ago, we have lacked a Christian family magazine, and most especially an English family magazine. This Day is now to fill this gap. In a letter printed in it President Behnken states its purpose when he says that it is to offer to everyone in the family what serves for recreation, entertainment, and education and is also conducive to Christianity. The first number, which lies before us, justifies these hopes. The magazine is furnished with exceedingly beautiful pictures. With its typographical make-up our Concordia Publishing House has earned new renown. Henry Rische is the editor, who is assisted by an editorial committee: Paul Bretscher, O. A. Dorn, H. W. Gockel,