Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pincher Creek colonists were already eating vegetables from their Washington farm, looking forward to harvests of apples, cherries, raspberries, peaches and grapes. Even more gratifying to Gross was the welcome their new neighbors extended: "People from the Methodist, Mennonite and Lutheran churches came to visit us. They were very kind. There has been no objection against us whatever...
Take, for example, the story called "The Elephant Matter" (thoughtfully translated from the Loma dialect by the weekly's Editor Margaret D. Miller, daughter of a Lutheran missionary): "The women went to fish in a stream and the elephants came after them. They chased them the whole day long . . . We who went to meet the women were five. The elephants chased us too. We had to climb a tree. One man, whose name was Peiwala, took off his shoes and left them under the tree. The elephants took the shoes and spoiled them...
...Loma Weekly, published by the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Wesley Sadler of the Lutheran mission in Monrovia, could not exist if Dr. Sadler had not created a written Loma language from the spoken dialect. Now the tribesmen are becoming literate in their own tongue, eventually will move on to the study of English, the country's official language...
...America Shops showed a husband popping bottles into his wife's shopping basket on their way around a supermarket, another woman wandering interminably, "just looking," until she can no longer contain herself and launches into a frenzy of impulse buying. A Report on a fire in the Lutheran church in Sayville, Long Island, and the efforts of the local citizens to rebuild it, moved many British viewers to send contributions of merchandise and money...
...Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership 1,000,000) voted at its convention in Minneapolis to join the World Council of Churches, thus removing the last barrier to merger with two other Lutheran bodies, the American Lutheran Church (862,000 members) and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church (57,000 members). The resulting new denomination, to be called the American Lutheran Church, will probably be organized in 1960, and its nearly 2,000,000 membership will make it the third largest branch of Lutheranism in the U.S.-after the United Lutheran Church in America anc the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod both slightly over...