For Altar and For Hearth Lutheran Wisdom for Church and Home

1922 Walter A. Maier Walther League Messenger

The Greatness of Being Small

Let us be happy to be considered small and insignificant in this world of distorted values, if only we shall be great and mighty in His sight in whose service we live, in whose Name we die, and in whose Kingdom we shall live eternally, in divine majesty, heavenly honor and never-ending glory.

1922 Walther League Messenger

True Riches

If I have but Jesus, only Jesus—nothing else in all the world beside, still I do possess all things in Jesus, all my needs and more He will provide.

1923 Walter A. Maier Walther League Messenger

The Christian and His Home

If the story of the Cross of Jesus finds an abiding place in any home, that family is indeed blessed and endowed with the power that makes this life of ours really worth living. Such a home will have Christ the Glory of time, the Crown of eternity.

1921 Carl Manthey-Zorn Northwestern Publishing House

Prevention of Pregnancy

How can such hearts be graced with faith and fear of the Lord and with the mind of a child of God? How can God’s blessing rest upon such a home? We verily believe that God’s wrath hovers there.

1924 The Lutheran Witness

Making the Home Beautiful

Even on the humblest family rests the obligation of making the home attractive, for old and young alike.