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...before: the worn black suit he was wearing had been given him by a grateful congregation in New Brunswick, N.J., where he had preached in 1947. But that had been long ago, before his years in Communist jails, years of poverty and isolation. Last week Bishop Lajos Ordass, Lutheran Primate of Hungary, looked with emotion on the free world again, but begged U.S. newsmen to remember in quoting him that he would have to return to Red-ruled Hungary...
...Minneapolis for the Third Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation. 56-year-old Bishop Ordass (rhymes with war-dash) is now fully rehabilitated as Bishop of Budapest from the false charges of currency-law violations on which the Communists had jailed him in 1948. The six years of forced "retirement" after his release, when he supported his wife and four children by knitting, ended last October, and being free to preach the Gospel again "was like being given a cup of cold water when you are dying of thirst." The congregations who listened to him had changed...
...Admitted five new member churches: the U.S.'s Evangelical Lutheran Church (1,000,000 members), the Burma Baptist Convention (200,000 members), the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (20,000 members), the Christian Reformed Churches in Indonesia (2,300 members) and the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, B.W.I. (12,000 members...
Using the same circulation system and editorial approach, Methodist-sponsored Together will probably pass a million by its first anniversary in October. As indicated by the growth of such other middlebrow religious magazines as the monthly Catholic Digest (circ. 884,820) and the weekly Lutheran (176,100), the U.S. religious press has at last learned to treat subscribers as readers first, churchgoers second. Said Together Publisher Clark: "We feel we are reaching some of the marginal millions on the periphery of church interest...
...many pious German devotees of Johann Sebastian Bach, the singing of the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, East Germany, is the voice of Holy Writ. The choir school, attached to Leipzig's famed Evangelical Lutheran Thomaskirche, proudly points to J. S. Bach's service as its cantor for 27 years (1723 to 1750), has long constituted itself chief guardian of his music. Last week the 80-boy choir made a sortie from behind the Iron Curtain. Occasion: the Bach Festival at Ansbach, West Germany. Critical verdict: St. Thomas' parade-drilled ten-to-18-year olds...