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...largest Lutheran theological seminary in the U.S. (enrollment 778) is the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary-a well-planned scattering of college-gothic buildings and faculty homes on 71 green acres in Clayton, on the western edge of St. Louis. Last week the synod's board of electors announced that they had selected a new seminary president: the Rev. Alfred Ottomar Fuerbringer, 49. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), even-tempered Pastor Fuerbringer and Concordia will not have much trouble getting to know each other-his father headed the school and his grandfather helped found...
Faith of the Fathers. Grandfather Ottomar Fuerbringer left his German homeland in 1838 with a group of some 700 Saxony Lutherans for whom German Lutheranism was getting too liberal and rationalistic, and too closely bound up with the state. He and three fellow ministers built the original Concordia-a log-cabin schoolhouse in Missouri's Perry County-and set out to train a New World breed of pastors in the strict, Bible-centered Lutheranism of their conviction...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, 56, hard-driving Lutheran teacher (Concordia Theological Seminary) and preacher, whose sternly fundamentalist radio sermons (The Lutheran Hour), begun in 1935, reached an audience of millions in 36 languages through 1,200 stations; of a coronary thrombosis; in St. Louis...
...Cologne we stayed at the Hotel Concordia . . . close by the Cathedral. Here we had our first experience with the narrow German beds so much detested by Queen Victoria. They are just wide enough for one. . . . As they separate man and wife I am opposed to them. A man who has a wife he does not delight to sleep with is badly married. . . . [Sleeping together] tends to make good husbands, to strengthen the influence of the wife, and to improve her position in the family. It cannot be otherwise, because it tends to increased friendship and mutuality of life...
Last week Concordia's president, the Rev. Louis J. Sieck, announced that the radio professor is wearing himself out. Concordia has granted him a two-year leave of absence so he can spend all his time on the Hour. Since he never drew any salary for his radio work, Concordia will continue his professorial pay: about $275 a month. The Messenger will continue his editor's pay: $125 a month...