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Died. The Rev. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, 75, longtime (13 successive terms) president of the United Lutheran Church in America, founder and pastor of Manhattan's Church of the Atonement, vice president of the Lutheran World Convention, eloquent champion of unity among disputatious U.S. Lutheran groups; after long illness; in New Rochelle...
Jammed into the ballroom of Omaha's Hotel Fontenelle, the United Lutherans re-elected their perennial president (he has held the job since the church was organized in 1918): precise, white-goateed Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, 70, of Manhattan. Dr. Knubel admitted he could swallow the articles of agreement only by "gulping." The United Lutherans, who think some parts of the Scripture more important than others, had to swallow hard too. But under Dr. Knubel's brisk leadership and spurred by their desire for unity, gulp them the United Lutherans...
...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...
...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...