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...GEORGE W. FORELL, professor of theology at Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary: "I certainly object to the notion of killing people to save your own life. Even if you shoot people to save your family when your family's own survival is questionable, that is the use of a certainly evil means to attain an uncertain end; it assumes you know the end. The Christian counsel here is that one tries to do what is least evil and asks forgiveness...
...JOHN SIMMONS of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in North Hollywood, Calif.: "Self-preservation is the first law of human nature. But there is a higher law-God's. Man's first concern should be for others, not for himself...
...indication that the boom in North American Protestantism may be tapering off came last week with the annual statistical summary issued by the National Lutheran Council. The number of Lutherans in the U.S. and Canada has grown to 8,456,863 (still the third largest denominational group, after the Baptists and Methodists), but it is a gain of only 1.7% compared to the average Lutheran gain of 3.1% during the past ten years. Largest numerical increase of the 14 reporting church bodies was registered, as it has been for the past 16 years, by the 2,469,036-member Missouri...
...fashioned custom of sending flowers to funerals, increasingly supplanted by a terse "Please Omit Flowers" in a death notice, is something worth preserving, thinks the Rev. W. Carter Merbreier, 34, of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. In this month's pastoral letter to his flock, he pleaded eloquently for flowers-at his own funeral, in any case...
Checking a list of available shelters, Red Cross officials decided on the Holy Cross Lutheran Church, two miles away from the fire scene in an allwhite, lower-middle-income neighborhood that has long feared and fought encroachment by Chicago's growing Negro population. As the first busload of Negroes arrived outside the church, a handful of white teen-agers began to chant: "Nigger, nigger, nigger-go back to your neighborhood...