Word: lutheranism
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...only four escort vessels, one of which he personally commands. Almost as serious as his weakness in ships is his own inexperience; this is his first taste of war, although he is an Annapolis man with 20 years of routine duty behind him. The serious-minded son of a Lutheran minister, unlucky in marriage, he is now to be tested as life has never tested him before...
...made available each Tuesday a classroom for any minister who would spend the 45-minute lunch recess with pupils of his faith. Attendance is entirely voluntary. For the first sessions, held early last month, 100 pupils showed up, some with their Bibles. By last week seven clergymen-including Lutheran, Methodist, Episcopal and Roman Catholic-were bringing their texts and lunches to Bangor High School...
...continue that relationship which is the sacrament of unity between the spouses . . ." ¶ A $400,000 Protestant Radio and TV Center was formally dedicated at Atlanta, Ga. to "its task of carrying the word of Christianity to the world." Owned jointly by the Methodist, Presbyterian (Northern and Southern), United Lutheran and Episcopal Churches, and by Emory University, Agnes Scott College and Columbia Theological Seminary, the center will send religious radio programs to several hundred stations in the U.S. as well as the Armed Forces Radio Network. ¶ Southern Presbyterians (756,886 members), known officially as the Presbyterian Church...
...Stanley Wisniewski, 24, an X-ray technician at Chicago's Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, slumped to the darkroom floor with a heart attack. Stimulants and artificial respiration failed: his heart had stopped. A passing surgeon whipped out a pocket knife, sliced open Wisniewski's chest (while he still lay on the floor) and massaged the heart with his bare hand. After 2¼ hours, and more conventional treatment as equipment was rounded up, Wisniewski's heart resumed its beat. This week he was doing well...
...Lutheran." George had been an alert student, frisked through eight grades at the local one-room school in six years, graduated from York High at 16. He wanted to go to Swarthmore, but father Leader vetoed that seat of Quakerism with five words: "No, you are a Lutheran."* So George obediently went off to nearby Gettysburg College, a small (1,200 students) institution affiliated with the Lutheran Church. In his senior year he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in order to study more political science, sociology and history. He graduated in 1939, and promptly married Mary Jane Strickler...