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Exodus 14:15, 1927 - 1930
O.P. Kretzmann
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EXODUS 14, 15. 
"A.nd the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore 
criest thou unto me? Speak unto the 
children of Israel, that they go forward." 
, 
o.P.Kretzmann 
EXODUS 14, 15. 
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore 
criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children 
of Israel, that they go forward." 
What a magnificent picture forms the back-
ground for our textl The children or Israel are 
standing µpon the shores of the Red Sea. Behind 
them lie four hundred ye·ars of bondage and oppressial 
By divine command they have gone out from the land 
of Egypt and are -0n their way to the promised land 
of Canaan. But the Red Sea lies before them, deep 
and impassable. Their rear-guard can already see the 
~osts of Pharaoh approaching in the distance, 
hastening to take revenge fpr the killing or their 
firstborn. Surely, it is a perilous situation, a 
moment filled with anxietJ'. Doubt and coniU.sion are 
written on all faces. What now? Did the Lord their 
God lead them from the land · of Egypt only to let 
them perish miserably beneath the chariots of the 
hosts of Pharaoh? Is this the end of Jehovah's 
protection and guidance?- No - above the crying and 
wailing of the bewildered people Moses hears the 
voice Of the great God or his fathers speaking to 
him: "Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto 
the chi1dren of Israel, that they go forward." 
"Speak unto the children of Israel, that they 
go forward." My friends, you are today celebrating 
your annual Missionfestival. It would seem to me 
that in certain respects your position today is · 
similar to that of the children of Israel. The four 
hundred years in Egypt ~ere for them a trial, a 
means by which the Lord strengthened and established 
their faith. You too, as a congreg~tion, have 
experienced many trials. The Lord has led you 
through devious wa~s and many vicissitudes to the 
present day, to your Missionfestival of the year 
1925. And what now? My friends, I truly believe 
that under God you are standing on the thresho1d 
of a glorious future, a future fraught with 
promise. And on this day of days for you, what 
greater message can I bring to you than the words 
of the eternal Lord of hosts, spoken to his servant 
Moses, "Speak unto the children of Israel, that 
they go forward." Therefore let us this af tel'?loon 
put our hands into the hands of the LOrd and say, 
"Lo-rd., lead on; we are ready." Even as Moses and 
the children of Israel, so let us also hearken 
to His divine command: Go forwardl · 
We would brief1y note: 
1. Why? 
2. How? 
Go forward - Why? It is evident that the 
primary reason must always be because it is the 
Lord·' s will. Throughout the ages this has always 
been the fundamental motive for all work done in 
the kingdom of God. Two thousand years ago our 
Lord and savior stood on the hilltop in Galilee and 
said to the little band of disciples around him, 
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing 
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, 
and of the Holy Ghost." And from that very moment 
the church of God, the church militant here on earth 
has carried a tremendous responsibility. Into a 
world reeking with sin and iniquity, it was to carrJJ 
the .message of the cross - into a world hostiie 
and proud it was to hurl the message 0£ the Prince 
of Peace - into a sinsick, sincurst and dying world 
it was to bring the water of life, the glorious 
news that from Calvary's hill a voice or blood was 
flowing, sufficient to wash, cleanse and redeem the 
whole human race. What an awful responsibilityl Over 
against the ever recurring waves of a~iM1s~ and un-
belief the church of God was to place the Hock of 
Ages; instead of the ever varying theories of men 
concerning the mysteries of life and dea~h, the 
church was to place the cross as the center of all 
human thought, as the basis for all man's hopes, as 
the glorious end and ful£1lment of God's eternal 
plans for the human race. What a tremendous re-
sponsibility l And, my friends, that same re-
sponsibility still exists today. Also to you and to 
to me comes the voice of God: Go forward, go forward 
in the work of the Lordl The great Lord of the 
Church says to us just what He said to the children 
or Israel: Go £orwardl Never, never will He say to 
us, "Sit down by the shore and waitl" Never so long 
as sin is in the world and faith in the blood-
stained Redeemer is the only salvation from sin, 
1ill He say to us, "Rest here in peace l" No - by 
reason of this divine command the church of God 
must go on and on, despite the devil, world and 
tlesh, to its final glorious consummation. 
But this command of the Lord comes with 
espe,cial force at certain times in the history of 
the world and the church. And surely such a time is 
the present.Lift up your eyes and look about you1 
Were there ever times like these? Beating into our 
ears we hear the watchwords of the day: Pro~l18ss, 
Development, Evolution. But where are they? In 
Religion? Lift up your eyes and look about you1 
Who today still worships the God of our fathers 
and the Christ of Calvar7? In morals? Look about 
youL In spite of all that men may say concerning 
progress and development, our day and age is 
becoming 1ncreasing1y materialistic, 1ncreasing1y 
sensual, increasingly forgetful of God and of 
eternity. All around us as a Church men are going 
down - all about us are the sick and suffering -
all around u_s is the crying need of faith in a 
crucified Redeemer - all around us are men ignorant 
of the one thing needful - faith in the crucified 
and risen Savior. Trul'J- the comms.nd of our Lord: 
Go forward1 comes with especial force in times 
like these. 
And yet, my friend, these times bPing with 
them added opportunities 1 :Everywhere thoughtful 
minds are recognizing the need for a breaking 
away fromthe modern views of 11£e which disregard 
the welfare or the soul entire1y. On all sides 
men are recognizing the fact that the absence of 
religious training is producing Lts ~orrible 
effects in the youth 0£ our land~ as seen in the 
ever-increasing crime wave, in the utter disregard 
for law and order. And who will deny that these 
phenomena bring added opportunities for us? Every-
where in our land new doors are being opened to 
us - and this is also true of Central Illinois. 
There are any number of t~wns in our immediate 
v~cinity which have never heard a Lutheran sermon, 
which have never heard that the Lutheran church 
stands foursquare on the Bible and points to the 
cross as man's only salvation for time and 
eternity. 
But permit me to come still closer to home. 
Decatur has at the present time a population of 
about 50 1 000 people. You, my dear friends, who 
live ith these people, work with them - do you know 
how many have never given their Savior more than a 
passing ±hou.ght? How many of these have ever heard 
you speak of Christ? How many have you invited to 
come to church with you? Oh, what a sad thing it 
is to see our Congregations place bulletin-boards 
before their churches and then forget entirely: that 
they are to be living, walking, breathing bull~tins, 
bringing the message of salvation to men walking 
in darkness. 
May I address myself for a moment to the 
~oung people here present. It is a sad fact that 
many of our yowig people today are ashamed of their 
Christianity, ashamed of their savior, afraid of 
the ridicule of halfbaked intellectuals and silly 
butterflies. o, my young friend, let me appeal to 
you today to make the Church's business your 
business. Humanly speaking, the future of our Chur-oh 
rests with you. Is your faith the living, throbbing, 
vital certainty which will lead you to go out into 
the highways and byways of this city and compel them 
to come in? The command of the Lord, the troublous 
times, your ever-increasing personal oppo~un1tues -
all these call out to you today: Go forward, go 
forward in the work of the Lord1 With ¥OU rests the 
future of the churchl Choose ye this day What will 
you havel ill you have a Church reactionary and 
slow, blindly blundering on, forgetful of. its 
divine mission, extracting from the present nothing 
• 
but its bitterness, from the past nothing.bu.tits 
mistakes - will you have a church dying from its 
stupid head to its stiff knees and stony heart -
a church with no light i~ its ~ilmy eyes, no hea1t 
in its palsied hands, no 11~1ng faith on its icy 
lips? Or will you have a church which clings to 
the eternal truths, a church which lives the livinS 
words of Christ, a church with power, a church 
fully and t.hrobbingly alive to the command of its 
great Lord and Master: Go ye into all the world and 
preach the Gospel to every living creature. To 
you, to you whom the Lord has given youth and 
health !ind strength comes His command with especial 
force this day: Go forward, go forward in the work 
of the Lordt Stand up, stand up, for your Savior, 
confess Him before the worl:d, point your connnunity 
to the cross on C-alvary's hill and may God bless 
you in your endeavorst 
Surely we all recognize the great need for 
heeding our Lord's command to go forward. But there 
are always some who ask: How? In what way shall we 
go forward? How shall we go about it? Brieri-, 
we would therefore also note this phase of the 
question before us. HOW? 
One of the greatest missionaries the world 
has ever seen was the man whose name your church 
carries - the Apostle Paul. From the moment that 
the Lord opened his eyes in the city of Damascus 
his whole life was one continual "going forward" -
one continual round of blazing, burning missionary 
zeal. And what was the secret of his power? How 
did he go about his work? 
We note that the Apostle took every step for 
ard in faith. It was his faith which reall~ overcame 
the heathen world and led it to the foot of the 
cross. And so, my friends, we too are called to go 
forward in faith. It is our faith, our own personal 
faith in the eternal truth or our message which,· 
after all, must be the fundamental means by which we 
go for a~d . nd this £aith must not be and cannot be 
a eak, l18.gue, temporizing faithi No, it must be the 
faith which overcame the wor1d, the faith which 
believes in one God and Father as the Creator and 
Ruler of the Universe, the faith which believes in 
one Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Godman, the 
edeemer, who came into this world to shed His holy 
precious blood on crosscrovmed Calvary for the sins 
of a lost and fallen race. Hear me, my friends - you 
will never bring men to Christ by telling them "do 
this and do that"; you will never save a single soul 
by talking of a wishy-washy morality - you will 
never lead a single human being to the cross by 
means of the Social Gospel or a program of uplift and 
reform. No, the basis for all your endeavors must be 
faith, a living, throbbing, burning faith in your 
Savior - the Faith which filled a Paul., a Peter, a 
Luther, a alther, a Faith which will drive you on 
and on in an overwhelming zeal to go forward in the 
work or the Lord. 
9
·e note also that the Apostle Paul went for-
) 
ward with prayer. When he was not preaching, he was 
praying. In the first chapter of his great letters 
to the Philippians he tells them that he remembers 
tbem in every one of his prayers before the throne 
of mercy. An his was the right kind of prayer.Moses 
1n the scene from which our text is taken, bad also 
prayed,. but the Lord answered, "Where.tore criest 
thou unto me" 'l Moses had said, "Here is the sea 
with its wild billows raging, beating on the shore. 
w·e cannot go forward". His prayer had been a cry 
of despair, of doubt in the Lord's providence. But 
Paul's prayers. flowed from his faith, and. so also 
we should pray - and in faith and prayer lead the 
world to Christ until that glorious day when the 
Lord Himself shall come down and transform our 
faith here on earth into sight and full knowledge 
hereafter and our prayers into aongs of thanks-
giving. 
At every Missionfestival we hear so much 
of prayer. We expect it, we take it as a matter of 
course. And just for. that reason I would dwell 
on it a moment longer. Some years ago I was 
privileged, etc. O, my friends, to put tears into 
our prayer_s - how many or us do that? The greatest 
missionary ever on this earth was our Lord and 
Savior Jesus Christ. And the climax of His missionar 
activity we find in that magnlficent scene when 
He was traveling from Jericho to Jerusalem and 
halted for a moment on the top of the Mt. of 
Olives. He beheld the city beneath Him - a 
seething cauldron of wickedness, unbelief and 
ungodliness. And He wept bitter tears, tears of 
divine pity and compassion. And with these tears 
still glistening in His eyes, He went forward into 
the city and spent His iast four days of freedom 
preaching the Gospel of repentance. o, my friends, 
will we not al·so follow our LOrd in this respect, 
will we not pray for our missionwork with tears, 
tears of pity and sympathy for a sinsick and fallen 
race, tears of sorrow over the hardness of men's 
hearts, and the terrible doom toward ~hich they 
are rushing. You know that when you plant a seed 
in your garden "JOU must give it water if i~ is to 
grow. And so also when you have planted the seed of 
the Gospel in men's hearts - then water it with your 
tears and truly the Lord will, in His due time, give 
you an abundant and glorious harvest . 
Go forward in faith, in prayer, sl ncere praye11 
One point, you will note, is still missing. And that 
is work. It was work for the children of Israel to 
gather all their belongings and go forward into the 
Red Sea. And so also your going forward means work -
hard work, unselfish work - yet glorious work. Yes, 
glorious work for it means leading souls to the foot 
of the cross. And this work follows so easily and 
naturally from your faith and your prayers, that I 
need not dwell on it any longe~ . 
o, my friends, I pray you do not treat this 
work lightly . After all it represents the supreme 
reason for your and myetistence in this world. Go 
forward, go forward in the work of the Lord until 
that day when the Lord Himself will say to you: "Come 
over to the other shore and rest l " And then your 
work here on earth for the bloodstained, crucified 
Savior will be transformed and translated into an 
eternity ~f singing the praises of the risen, 
glorious Savior , radiant and mighty .-
AMEN . 


Exodus 14:15, 1927 - 1930

Valparaiso University

Valparaiso UniversityValpoScholarO.P. Kretzmann Collection University Archives & Special CollectionsJanuary 2019Exodus 14:15, 1927 - 1930O.P. KretzmannFollow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/kretzmann_collectionPart of the Christianity CommonsThis Collection Record is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives & Special Collections at ValpoScholar. It has beenaccepted for inclusion in O.P. Kretzmann Collection by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact aValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu.Recommended CitationKretzmann, O.P., "Exodus 14:15, 1927 - 1930" (2019). O.P. Kretzmann Collection. 80.https://scholar.valpo.edu/kretzmann_collection/80EXODUS 14, 15. "A.nd the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." , o.P.Kretzmann EXODUS 14, 15. "And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." What a magnificent picture forms the back-ground for our textl The children or Israel are standing µpon the shores of the Red Sea. Behind them lie four hundred ye·ars of bondage and oppressial By divine command they have gone out from the land of Egypt and are -0n their way to the promised land of Canaan. But the Red Sea lies before them, deep and impassable. Their rear-guard can already see the ~osts of Pharaoh approaching in the distance, hastening to take revenge fpr the killing or their firstborn. Surely, it is a perilous situation, a moment filled with anxietJ'. Doubt and coniU.sion are written on all faces. What now? Did the Lord their God lead them from the land · of Egypt only to let them perish miserably beneath the chariots of the hosts of Pharaoh? Is this the end of Jehovah's protection and guidance?- No - above the crying and wailing of the bewildered people Moses hears the voice Of the great God or his fathers speaking to him: "Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the chi1dren of Israel, that they go forward." "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." My friends, you are today celebrating your annual Missionfestival. It would seem to me that in certain respects your position today is · similar to that of the children of Israel. The four hundred years in Egypt ~ere for them a trial, a means by which the Lord strengthened and established their faith. You too, as a congreg~tion, have experienced many trials. The Lord has led you through devious wa~s and many vicissitudes to the present day, to your Missionfestival of the year 1925. And what now? My friends, I truly believe that under God you are standing on the thresho1d of a glorious future, a future fraught with promise. And on this day of days for you, what greater message can I bring to you than the words of the eternal Lord of hosts, spoken to his servant Moses, "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." Therefore let us this af tel'?loon put our hands into the hands of the LOrd and say, "Lo-rd., lead on; we are ready." Even as Moses and the children of Israel, so let us also hearken to His divine command: Go forwardl · We would brief1y note: 1. Why? 2. How? Go forward - Why? It is evident that the primary reason must always be because it is the Lord·' s will. Throughout the ages this has always been the fundamental motive for all work done in the kingdom of God. Two thousand years ago our Lord and savior stood on the hilltop in Galilee and said to the little band of disciples around him, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." And from that very moment the church of God, the church militant here on earth has carried a tremendous responsibility. Into a world reeking with sin and iniquity, it was to carrJJ the .message of the cross - into a world hostiie and proud it was to hurl the message 0£ the Prince of Peace - into a sinsick, sincurst and dying world it was to bring the water of life, the glorious news that from Calvary's hill a voice or blood was flowing, sufficient to wash, cleanse and redeem the whole human race. What an awful responsibilityl Over against the ever recurring waves of a~iM1s~ and un-belief the church of God was to place the Hock of Ages; instead of the ever varying theories of men concerning the mysteries of life and dea~h, the church was to place the cross as the center of all human thought, as the basis for all man's hopes, as the glorious end and ful£1lment of God's eternal plans for the human race. What a tremendous re-sponsibility l And, my friends, that same re-sponsibility still exists today. Also to you and to to me comes the voice of God: Go forward, go forward in the work of the Lordl The great Lord of the Church says to us just what He said to the children or Israel: Go £orwardl Never, never will He say to us, "Sit down by the shore and waitl" Never so long as sin is in the world and faith in the blood-stained Redeemer is the only salvation from sin, 1ill He say to us, "Rest here in peace l" No - by reason of this divine command the church of God must go on and on, despite the devil, world and tlesh, to its final glorious consummation. But this command of the Lord comes with espe,cial force at certain times in the history of the world and the church. And surely such a time is the present.Lift up your eyes and look about you1 Were there ever times like these? Beating into our ears we hear the watchwords of the day: Pro~l18ss, Development, Evolution. But where are they? In Religion? Lift up your eyes and look about you1 Who today still worships the God of our fathers and the Christ of Calvar7? In morals? Look about youL In spite of all that men may say concerning progress and development, our day and age is becoming 1ncreasing1y materialistic, 1ncreasing1y sensual, increasingly forgetful of God and of eternity. All around us as a Church men are going down - all about us are the sick and suffering -all around u_s is the crying need of faith in a crucified Redeemer - all around us are men ignorant of the one thing needful - faith in the crucified and risen Savior. Trul'J- the comms.nd of our Lord: Go forward1 comes with especial force in times like these. And yet, my friend, these times bPing with them added opportunities 1 :Everywhere thoughtful minds are recognizing the need for a breaking away fromthe modern views of 11£e which disregard the welfare or the soul entire1y. On all sides men are recognizing the fact that the absence of religious training is producing Lts ~orrible effects in the youth 0£ our land~ as seen in the ever-increasing crime wave, in the utter disregard for law and order. And who will deny that these phenomena bring added opportunities for us? Every-where in our land new doors are being opened to us - and this is also true of Central Illinois. There are any number of t~wns in our immediate v~cinity which have never heard a Lutheran sermon, which have never heard that the Lutheran church stands foursquare on the Bible and points to the cross as man's only salvation for time and eternity. But permit me to come still closer to home. Decatur has at the present time a population of about 50 1 000 people. You, my dear friends, who live ith these people, work with them - do you know how many have never given their Savior more than a passing ±hou.ght? How many of these have ever heard you speak of Christ? How many have you invited to come to church with you? Oh, what a sad thing it is to see our Congregations place bulletin-boards before their churches and then forget entirely: that they are to be living, walking, breathing bull~tins, bringing the message of salvation to men walking in darkness. May I address myself for a moment to the ~oung people here present. It is a sad fact that many of our yowig people today are ashamed of their Christianity, ashamed of their savior, afraid of the ridicule of halfbaked intellectuals and silly butterflies. o, my young friend, let me appeal to you today to make the Church's business your business. Humanly speaking, the future of our Chur-oh rests with you. Is your faith the living, throbbing, vital certainty which will lead you to go out into the highways and byways of this city and compel them to come in? The command of the Lord, the troublous times, your ever-increasing personal oppo~un1tues -all these call out to you today: Go forward, go forward in the work of the Lord1 With ¥OU rests the future of the churchl Choose ye this day What will you havel ill you have a Church reactionary and slow, blindly blundering on, forgetful of. its divine mission, extracting from the present nothing • but its bitterness, from the past nothing.bu.tits mistakes - will you have a church dying from its stupid head to its stiff knees and stony heart -a church with no light i~ its ~ilmy eyes, no hea1t in its palsied hands, no 11~1ng faith on its icy lips? Or will you have a church which clings to the eternal truths, a church which lives the livinS words of Christ, a church with power, a church fully and t.hrobbingly alive to the command of its great Lord and Master: Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every living creature. To you, to you whom the Lord has given youth and health !ind strength comes His command with especial force this day: Go forward, go forward in the work of the Lordt Stand up, stand up, for your Savior, confess Him before the worl:d, point your connnunity to the cross on C-alvary's hill and may God bless you in your endeavorst Surely we all recognize the great need for heeding our Lord's command to go forward. But there are always some who ask: How? In what way shall we go forward? How shall we go about it? Brieri-, we would therefore also note this phase of the question before us. HOW? One of the greatest missionaries the world has ever seen was the man whose name your church carries - the Apostle Paul. From the moment that the Lord opened his eyes in the city of Damascus his whole life was one continual "going forward" -one continual round of blazing, burning missionary zeal. And what was the secret of his power? How did he go about his work? We note that the Apostle took every step for ard in faith. It was his faith which reall~ overcame the heathen world and led it to the foot of the cross. And so, my friends, we too are called to go forward in faith. It is our faith, our own personal faith in the eternal truth or our message which,· after all, must be the fundamental means by which we go for a~d . nd this £aith must not be and cannot be a eak, l18.gue, temporizing faithi No, it must be the faith which overcame the wor1d, the faith which believes in one God and Father as the Creator and Ruler of the Universe, the faith which believes in one Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Godman, the edeemer, who came into this world to shed His holy precious blood on crosscrovmed Calvary for the sins of a lost and fallen race. Hear me, my friends - you will never bring men to Christ by telling them "do this and do that"; you will never save a single soul by talking of a wishy-washy morality - you will never lead a single human being to the cross by means of the Social Gospel or a program of uplift and reform. No, the basis for all your endeavors must be faith, a living, throbbing, burning faith in your Savior - the Faith which filled a Paul., a Peter, a Luther, a alther, a Faith which will drive you on and on in an overwhelming zeal to go forward in the work or the Lord. 9·e note also that the Apostle Paul went for-) ward with prayer. When he was not preaching, he was praying. In the first chapter of his great letters to the Philippians he tells them that he remembers tbem in every one of his prayers before the throne of mercy. An his was the right kind of prayer.Moses 1n the scene from which our text is taken, bad also prayed,. but the Lord answered, "Where.tore criest thou unto me" 'l Moses had said, "Here is the sea with its wild billows raging, beating on the shore. w·e cannot go forward". His prayer had been a cry of despair, of doubt in the Lord's providence. But Paul's prayers. flowed from his faith, and. so also we should pray - and in faith and prayer lead the world to Christ until that glorious day when the Lord Himself shall come down and transform our faith here on earth into sight and full knowledge hereafter and our prayers into aongs of thanks-giving. At every Missionfestival we hear so much of prayer. We expect it, we take it as a matter of course. And just for. that reason I would dwell on it a moment longer. Some years ago I was privileged, etc. O, my friends, to put tears into our prayer_s - how many or us do that? The greatest missionary ever on this earth was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And the climax of His missionar activity we find in that magnlficent scene when He was traveling from Jericho to Jerusalem and halted for a moment on the top of the Mt. of Olives. He beheld the city beneath Him - a seething cauldron of wickedness, unbelief and ungodliness. And He wept bitter tears, tears of divine pity and compassion. And with these tears still glistening in His eyes, He went forward into the city and spent His iast four days of freedom preaching the Gospel of repentance. o, my friends, will we not al·so follow our LOrd in this respect, will we not pray for our missionwork with tears, tears of pity and sympathy for a sinsick and fallen race, tears of sorrow over the hardness of men's hearts, and the terrible doom toward ~hich they are rushing. You know that when you plant a seed in your garden "JOU must give it water if i~ is to grow. And so also when you have planted the seed of the Gospel in men's hearts - then water it with your tears and truly the Lord will, in His due time, give you an abundant and glorious harvest . Go forward in faith, in prayer, sl ncere praye11 One point, you will note, is still missing. And that is work. It was work for the children of Israel to gather all their belongings and go forward into the Red Sea. And so also your going forward means work -hard work, unselfish work - yet glorious work. Yes, glorious work for it means leading souls to the foot of the cross. And this work follows so easily and naturally from your faith and your prayers, that I need not dwell on it any longe~ . o, my friends, I pray you do not treat this work lightly . After all it represents the supreme reason for your and myetistence in this world. Go forward, go forward in the work of the Lord until that day when the Lord Himself will say to you: "Come over to the other shore and rest l " And then your work here on earth for the bloodstained, crucified Savior will be transformed and translated into an eternity ~f singing the praises of the risen, glorious Savior , radiant and mighty .-AMEN . 

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