Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adam Willis Wagnalls was born 81 years ago in Lithopolis, Ohio. Aged 24, he founded and was pastor of the First English Lutheran Church of Kansas City. After two years as clergyman, he served two in Atchison, Kan., as City Clerk; then went to Manhattan to enter the publishing business of Isaac Funk, a fellow alumnus of Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio...
...Lutherans regard indifference to creed as a terrible calamity. They sharply distinguish between the natural and supernatural and regard the word of God as inspired by Him, perfect and authoritative in every detail. They hold that the theory of evolution is unphilosophical, unscientific, unbiblical and unworthy of any scholarship. They insist on it that the gospel must first be for the individual before it can be for the group. They maintain that there can be no Christian unity except on the basis of unity of faith. The Lutheran church rejects all the religious tendencies which Dr. Lynch describes as being...
...editorial board consists of : Joseph Cullen Ayer, of the Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia; Benjamin W. Bacon, of the Yale Divinity School, New Haven; William H. P. Hatch, of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge; Charles Michael Jacobs, of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mount Airy, Pa.; Frederick William Loetscher, of Princeton Theological Seminary; William Walker Rockwell, of Union Theological Seminary, New York; and Henry Herman Meyer, of the International Sunday School Association and Lesson Committee. Judge Rogers, now aged 70, was admitted to the Bar in 1877. He served as chairman of the World's Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform...
...Lutheran synodical bodies in the U. S., 17 are united for executive purposes in the National Lutheran Coumcil of which J. A. Morehead is Director. Offended by the scheme (TIME, March 17) to induce Lutheran ministers to speculate in francs as retaliation against France, Mr. Morehead issued a statement: "The effort to involve the Lutheran Church in the promotion of speculation, religious antagonism, national hatred, is abominable." A similar sentiment was expressed by F. H. Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church...
...Lutheran ministers and laymen in the U. S. have been urged to invest in French francs on a 25% margin with a view to "selling short," thus still further depreciating the value of French money...