rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Historic St. John Lutheran Church Organ Concert - ...":
My estimate of the attendance was at least 60. Pastor Hastings gave a little synopsis of the history of St. John's after the concert. What was apparent from that was how Pastors Bading and Brenner served at St. Johns in both formative and turbulent times.
Most Pastors today could not hold a candle compared to these two stalwarts of the Faith. It reminded of how weak and sickly the WELS really is right now. I was encouraged by the increased attendance over last year's concert. Singing hymns from the 1941 TLH also reminded me of how pathetic the WELS Christian Worship hymnal is.
What could be more full of meaning?--for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
