Word: bauers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pastor Bauer & the Masons
...brevity of your analysis of Pastor Bauer's reasons for opposing Freemasonry [TIME, June 26] is apt to lead the average reader to an unjustified bias against the Lutheran Church...
...church's congregation knew that their pastor's words were aimed at three members who belonged to a Masonic lodge in nearby Hagersville. To the three Masons, Pastor Bauer gave an ultimatum: give up your lodge affiliation or leave the church. He refused to let them take Communion. He had, he claimed, the full backing of his twelve councilmen...
...Masons refused to drop their lodge membership. Said one: "Mr. Bauer is 150 years behind the times . . . He'll take our money but he won't give us Communion or bury us." Retorted the pastor: "If a Mason wanted a lodge burial, I would refuse to officiate." A church council decided to put the issue to a vote...
Last week 109 men of the congregation gathered in a stormy meeting. By an overwhelming majority, they reinstated the three Masons in the Fisherville church for a one-year probationary period. Nobody bothered to explain what "probationary period" meant. Pastor Bauer announced that if a call came to serve another congregation, he would accept...