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Probably because he is a personification of their mixture of mysticism and practicality, the United Lutherans elected for his seventh term as president Frederick Hermann Knubel, 60, of Manhattan. He is a tall, wiry, active man who does not require his Vandyke beard to point up his distinguished bearing. He hates procrastination or inactivity, despises every form of cant, characteristics which he showed 37 years ago when he won first honors at Gettysburg (Pa.) College, venerable Lutheran preparatory school for the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. The year the Seminary graduated him he married Christine Ritscher of Jersey City...
Pregnant criticism of modern Christianity was expressed by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of Manhattan, president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
...Syncretism says that all religions are true, secularism says all religions are false and also says the State must be lord over the Church, the social gospel says the Church must be lord over the State." All three attitudes Dr. Knubel viewed with alarm...
...sixth time the Rev. Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel was elected president of the United Lutheran Church in America. He has held the office since he was first elected ten years ago. He is a New Yorker by birth and by residence, is 58 years...
Said President Knubel: "It is true that an unordained person may fill a pulpit...