Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening three Lutheran pastors in white ties and black frock coats arrived. They were taken to the cell of Germany's most dangerous criminal, mild-mannered, flutter-fingered Peter Kuerten, "the Diisseldorf Fiend" (TIME...
...Kidnapped last October by Chinese bandits with some smattering of Western culture, Rev. Bert N. Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn. Lutheran missionary, has been bargaining ever since for his release, communicating with his brother in Shanghai...
...Also kidnapped last October near Loshan in Honan Province was Rev. Kristofer N. Tvedt, a St. Paul Minn. Lutheran missionary, recently ransomed (TIME, April 27). He reached Hankow last week where his wife and six children have been frantic with anxiety for half a year. Broken in health, looking 20 years older and horribly dirty, Mr. Tvedt said...
...Ransom values of U. S. missionaries to Chinese bandits fluctuate widely. Thus the Lutheran Mission at Hankow paid $2,350 plus $1,300 worth of medical supplies last week for Rev. K. N. Tvedt; but Mongolian bandits let Rev. Allie Godfrey Lindholm of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission go cheap for $600. Murdered recently by discharged Chinese servants at Yunnanfu were two Seventh Day Adventlst missionary-wives, Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller & Mrs. Vera Mosebar White...
Century ago there were in the U. S. ten church members for every 75 persons. Now there are ten for every 25. (Total number of communicants: 50,037,245.) Dr. George Linn Kieffer, statistical secretary of the United Lutheran Church, declared in the Christian Herald: " the churches are losing ground, the reason and the remedy can be found in part in an analysis of the message they are proclaiming to the world. An age of doubt and question, of depression and lawlessness demands from the pulpits of the land a clear ringing statement?'We should fear and love...