Word: lutheranism
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...American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Though Fry's religious activities at college "consisted of playing pool at the Y.M.C.A." (he explains: "Hamilton's undifferentiated Protestantism didn't appeal to me"), there was never any doubt where Franklin Clark Fry was headed. It was Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Philadelphia, where his grandfather Jacob had been professor of homiletics. Here he underwent his first and only spiritual crisis. "Inadequate instruction was the problem. I already had a firm grounding in the faith, but the defense of it presented by the professors didn't begin...
...together. I remember asking permission to kiss her -it was granted, to my surprise." Hilda Drewes and Pastor Fry were engaged in 1926, and married the next year. They have two sons, Franklin Drewes, a Brooklyn pastor, and Robert T., a Manhattan lawyer; daughter Constance is married to a Lutheran pastor...
...Pastor Fry was called to his second and last parish: Trinity Lutheran...
...Wanted It?" The turning point in the life of Franklin Clark Fry came in the 1944 convention of the United Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. On the first ballot his name appeared on 114 of 520 votes. Says Fry: "It was the first time anyone had received that number on the first ballot-but who wanted it?" On the fourth ballot Fry was president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Without a word, he rose from his chair and went upstairs to the hotel room where his wife was waiting. As he recalls it, they looked at each other...
...Pectoral crosses are usually associated with bishops, but U.S. Lutheranism has no bishops, the result of immigrant prejudice against the aristocratic traditions in the old world. In Fry's United Lutheran Church crosses are sometimes worn as a symbol of supervisory office. * Dutch Lutherans came first to America (New Amsterdam) in 1623. In 1638 Swedish Lutherans established a colony in Delaware. By mid-18th century Lutheranism was firmly established, mostly by Germans, along the eastern seaboard. Patriarch of Lutheranism in the U.S. was the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, organizer and theologian, who in 1748 formed the first Lutheran Synod...