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...Christian Herald's statistician was the late Dr. George Linn Kieffer, a respected Lutheran who died after completing the last census. So the National Lutheran Council, offended by Moderator Babson's statement, rechecked with reporting churches, last week issued a rebuttal to Moderator Babson's charge. Every church, said the Council, stuck by its figures. In many cases, however, church bodies had to take the word of local ministers as to how many parishioners were enrolled. Chief point in favor of the Christian Herald figures: church assessments and quotas, even when marked up to assure a decent...
That U. S. church membership is increasing faster than the population was the bullish message of the annual statistical report of Christian Herald, published last week. The last to be prepared by Lutheran George Linn Kieffer, who died in his Rosedale, L. I. pulpit this spring, the Herald tables were completed by his wife Maude. According to the Kieffers' denominational sources, there are 63,493,036 church members in the land, 837,404 more than last year. Rate of increase was 1.33%, as compared to .71% for population...
WHEN James T. Farrell studied at the University of Chicago in 1923 he used to hand in thousand words in an almost illegible longhand to Prof. Jim Weber Linn. Desciphering difficult under graduate handwriting is tiresome, but the professor read young Farrell's stuff with great interest. To the black haired Irish kid from Chicago's Blue Island Avenue, he gave encouragement, out of which ultimately came four grim, first-class novels of life on Chicago's South Side. The fourth, A World I Never Made, has just been published. The world James Farrell has lived in for 31 years...
...Port Orford, Ore. Frank B. Tichenor bought a railroad ticket to the Linn County Fair at Albany, Ore. in 1881, did not go. Last week he sent the ticket to Albany's mayor, asked for a refund...
Protestantism is "running downhill" (TIME, May 11). Well informed as he is, the new Congregational moderator was doubtless aware last week that in the July Christian Herald would appear the annual church statistics prepared by Dr. George Linn Kieffer; that these show an increase for all U. S. religious bodies of 670,801 members in 1935, or 1.08% as compared with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away...