Orphan Grain Train - Dr. Oswald Hoffmann commends the work of Orphan Grain Train at dedication.

Dr. Oswald Hoffmann Commends the work of Orphan Grain Train at Dedication of New Workcenter

Sept. 9, 2001 - Dr. Oswald Hoffmann, honorary Lutheran Hour speaker, was asked to share recollections about the historic site. Hoffmann was a seminary student at Concordia and visited the old seminary main structure just before it was taken down in the 1930s.

He traced Lutheran Church Missouri Synod history at the site and launched into a message based on the first chapter of John, where Christ is mentioned as the Light the world could never put out.

"Jesus was 100 percent human--altogether human--and at the same time He was 100 percent God…(we) take that as it is…and take people as they are," said Hoffmann, as he applied the Gospel to the work of Orphan Grain Train and the historical significance of the site.

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