Word: knubel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lutheran-a dream partly realized in 1918, when several Lutheran bodies were merged into the United Lutheran Church, largest (1,599,102 baptized members) in the land. Last week United Lutherans held their 11th biennial conference in Baltimore. As always, they elected bald, goateed, precise Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan to be their president. As always, Dr. Knubel, now 68, accepted...
...Knubel cautioned United Lutherans against finding "more pleasure in disagreeing with other Lutherans than in agreeing with them." He urged them to "discern our three-fold responsibility today, for our inner unity, for unity with all Lutherans and for unity with all Christians." But unity, he declared, should be on a basis of "extremely studious discrimination." In the Lutheran basket, the chief egg upon which the United Lutheran Church looks with favor is the American Lutheran Church (some 500,000 members...
...United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches, 1,000,000-odd confirmed members. Its busy, white-goateed head, re-elected every two years since that time, has been Manhattan's Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, now 66. As well-respected and well-qualified to speak for U. S. Lutherans as any man, Dr. Knubel last week turned up in Columbus, Ohio for the tenth biennial convention of United Lutherans. To 560 delegates he spoke typical, thrifty, self-reliant Lutheran words...
...Should the United Lutheran Church make bishops, as in Europe, of the heads of its 34 synods? President Knubel was dubious, pointing out that synod presidents are elected for terms, whereas bishops should hold their posts for life. The convention appointed a special commission to study the question, report at the 1938 meeting...
...Savannah, Ga. met the 9th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church. Re-elected president, as he has always been since the Church was organized in 1918, was Vandyke-bearded Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan. The United Lutherans flayed the liquor traffic and indecent cinema; cabled a protest to Adolf Hitler over the coercion of the German churches; came out for a fixed date for Easter and for more unity among the 18 North American Lutheran bodies. Especially would the United Lutheran Church (1,500,000 members) woo the American Lutheran Church (525,000 members). But the latter...