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Mennonite Brethren Church...
...should never enter the homes of his parishioners. "If you do," one instructor warned, "the mantle of Elijah will surely fall from your shoulders." In Scotland, as a student of the established church, Pastor Dibelius learned differently. Back in Germany, after months of observing the ways of his Calvinist brethren, he startled some of his colleagues by mixing freely with his parishioners and encouraging them to be active in the life of the church. Once, while he was ill. he got his congregation to run the church for themselves-"My one great achievement as a pastor...
...task, and more aware of it than ever before. Of the world's 68.5 million Lutherans, 41.6 million of them are in Germany, the rest principally in the U.S. and the Scandinavian countries. U.S. Lutherans, especially since 1945, have made a good deal of contact with their German brethren. Besides contributing some $24 million to German church welfare funds, they have perhaps shown the Germans how a church independent of the state can function...
...long military career, shifting about from post to post, Dwight Eisenhower worshiped as a Protestant who belonged to no particular church. His devout, Bible-quoting parents reared him as one of the Brethren in Christ; they believed in baptism only when individuals were old enough to decide for themselves, and the Eisenhower brothers do not remember being baptized as children. In 1948, while president of Columbia University, Eisenhower spoke of himself as "one of the most deeply religious men I know." Though not attached to any "sect or organization," he often expresses the conviction that democracy cannot exist without religion...
Twenty-three years ago this month, a youthful-looking Seventh-Day Adventist preacher stood up before his small and struggling congregation in South Los Angeles to appeal for funds. "Now, brethren," he said, "I've been telling you for some time that God wants me on radio . . . I want you to prove that I'm not lying and that I do know what God wants." A collection of rings, watches and old jewelry netted just enough to put the Rev. Harold M. S. Richards on the air the next week. He has been broadcasting steadily ever since...