Árdís - 01.01.1954, Side 88

Árdís - 01.01.1954, Side 88
86 ÁRDÍS President's Report By ELIZABETH H. BJARNARSON Dear Friends and Fellow Workers in Christ: I am exceedingly glad to be with you today. I feel a flow of friendship circulating round about us. Here in Selkirk, the home of Mrs. Olafson, who was our gracious and capable president for so many years, the Lutheran Women’s League seems to have come home for its convention. We have been graciously received and I know that our stay here will be very enjoyable. This is the 30th Annual Convention of the Lutheran Women’s League (Icelandic) and I bid you all welcome with all the sincerity of my heart. Thirty years is a long time and in that time the Lutheran Women’s League has accomplished much. It has been organized into a very worthwhile societ.y. It has developed into a strong self-sustained Christian movement within our Icelandic Lutheran Synod of the United Lutheran Church of America. Our Sunrise Lutheran Camp is a beautiful result of our efforts. We also have to our credit our yearly magazine, Ardis, which has blossomed forth and given us the thoughts and high inspiration of many of the women of our Lutheran Women’s League. Our Sunday School Mission is another worthwhile project which has been going on for many years, and it is a project which I think should never be laid aside. We should make sure that all Sunday School fields that are struggling to teach the Word of God and to further His work are assured of ample assistance from the Lutheran Women’s League. Temperance is always on our agenda. Our dear member, Mrs. Bardal, has worked long and hard for its cause. God grant that we as a league and as individuals work equally hard for the good of mankind by keeping temperance to the fore, and be not ashamed to admit that overindulgence in liquor is breaking down the social life of men and women of today. Let us therefore fight liquor and all its evils as we never fought before. We have our own Sunrise Lutheran Camp for our boys and
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