Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow. There is in Moscow no church with a U. S. pastor, but Bridegroom Minor had retained the services of Moscow's one Protestant clergyman, Reverend A. Streck. Herr Streck's parents were German, but he is a Soviet citizen, and has functioned in his little Lutheran church in Moscow quietly. Because most Protestant diplomats attend his services, Herr Streck became known unofficially as the "Diplomatic Pastor." He was all set to officiate, and the U. S. Embassy servants were set for the most lavish party since U. S. Ambassador Bullitt was transferred from Moscow to Paris (TIME...
...Peace Institutes and sending official delegates are the Debating Council, Advocate, Lampoon, Non-Resident Students' Center, Avukah Society, De Molay Club. Radcliffe Student Union, John Reed Club, Leverett, Dunster, Eliot, Adams, Kirkland, and Winthrop Houses, the dormitories, Westminster Club, Freshman Union Club, and student clubs in the Lutheran, Methodist, Unitarian, Congregational, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, and Christ Churches...
...half a century Rev. Adolf William Meyer of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Yonkers, N. Y. has kept conscientiously shipshape. Last week he uprose to tell 150 fellow clergymen of the Atlantic District of the United Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, sitting in Manhattan, how to preach successful sermons. First he counseled them to "get a good sleep Saturday night," warned them that "a torpid liver produces a dull sermon." To this admonition spry, old Dr. Meyer added four "don'ts" for lively preachers...
...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...
...Still up for consideration at week's end was a bigger problem: should the United Lutheran Church move to merge with other U. S. bodies, notably the American Lutheran Church? That body, which was meeting simultaneously in San Antonio, had postponed action on the matter for two years...