# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1949 09 27_S327
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And one more testimony for Bad Boll in conclusion. Prof. Dr. Dr. Schumann writes, among other things, in a letter to Dr. P. Bretscher: "It is my definite impression that, much more strongly even than in the previous year, a genuine and fruitful theological fellowship has emerged, which, if it is cultivated further, can become of great importance for the Lutheran Church in all the world."

Just as we had finished this article, Dr. Theo. Graebner sent us from London a picture postcard of the church in the village of Boll. It was built in the year 1165.

Luther Monument in Worms
Left to right: Dr. J. T. Müller, Vice-President Dr. H. Harms, Pastor Paul König

On his card Dr. Graebner remarks: "We are now leaving London, after attending an interesting meeting of representatives of the Alsatian territorial church in Wörth. We are firmly convinced that the Lutheran Church in France faces a great future."
J. T. M.

Where Are Your Children Studying? Some time ago questions were sent out by our Student Service Commission through its secretary, Pastor R. W. Hahn, in order to learn this one thing: "Where are your children studying?" Meant, of course, are those who attend higher schools.

Now it is very easy to lay these cards aside. But whoever does that does, for his part, something very bad; by his negligence he makes the pastoral care of our Student Service Commission more difficult. By his negligence he furthermore perhaps brings it about that his own sons and daughters are exposed to the danger of denying their faith and falling away from their Savior.

That, of course, is not always the case. A young man may, for example, study at a Lutheran university where the right pastoral care is practiced. But it is different when young people attend state universities or also colleges of other denominations, especially colleges of the Roman Church. Will the young people there escape the dangers without the special pastoral care of a student missionary?

Our care of students is an important mission work of our Church. More and more of our young people are entering higher schools of every kind in our country, and so this mission becomes ever more necessary.

We should therefore do everything we can for our part, so that our commission for this work may have in its hands as complete a list as possible of all students from our Church. And our board for this important mission is now occupied with that. Where are your children studying, dear reader?
J. T. M.

A Martyrs' Celebration in Oxford, England. When we were in Oxford, England, during the past summer, we heard much about the great martyrs' celebration that was held there on Whitmonday, June 6 of this year.

We then lingered a long time at the great, beautiful Martyrs' Memorial in Oxford, which was erected in honor of the English martyrs Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and other confessors of the truth.

Thomas Cranmer had done much for the spread of Protestantism in England, but under the painful torture of Bloody Mary he had let himself be moved to deny his faith. Now he thrust his right hand into the fire and let it burn to ashes, saying: "This unworthy hand!" and at the last: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." He was then 67 years old.

Hugh Latimer was one of the greatest preachers of the Gospel in England, so celebrated that he was made Bishop of Worcester. He was 65 years old when he was burned. At the stake he called to his friend, Bishop Nicholas Ridley of London: "Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day by God's grace light such a candle in England as, I trust, shall never be put out." And yet before his death by burning this great martyr was so afraid that he called to his friend Ridley in prison: "Pray for me; pray for me, I beseech you. For often I am so afraid that I would like to creep into a mousehole."

Bishop Nicholas Ridley of London was 55 years old when he was burned. He was a vigorous, handsome man and stood in the prime of his life. He was held prisoner in the house of a fanatical Catholic woman. She mocked him and made his last days as hard as she ever could. All this he bore with great patience. When he had been burned, the woman burst into tears and became a Protestant. His martyr's death was a confession that bore beautiful fruit.

It is such a remarkable city — this ancient Oxford in England! One is disappointed on arriving there. The famous University of Oxford looks like nothing at all. From the outside it is only old, gray walls. One college stands next to the other. And everything is so very old.

We looked at everything — the famous University Church of St. Mary's, where Cranmer at the very last confessed his faith; the old Balliol College, where the burning took place; the old college where Wyclif once studied, Wyclif, who a hundred years before Luther helped the English people to the English Bible; the venerable college where Max Müller once worked; the old Ashmolean Museum, where there is still today a martyrs' stake to which the prisoners were chained in those days, etc.

It all seems so far away, just like the patriarchs in the Bible, and yet again so near, as though it were