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...Mason also be a Christian? To the Rev. Walter Bauer, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lake Erie village of Fisherville (pop. 2,200), the answer is no. Nowhere in their prayers or ritual, he told his congregation in a sermon, do Masons make mention of Jesus Christ.* Furthermore, he had come upon a passage in a Freemason lexicon that defined the Bible as a "symbol of the will of God." Pastor Bauer concluded that such teachings were unChristian. He challenged lodge members to disprove his charges...
...Roman Catholic Church was not the only victim. The Reds have also brought relentless pressure on Hungary's Lutheran Church (500,000 members). Staunchly anti-Communist Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, recently freed after serving almost two years in prison, was stripped of his clerical rank by a special church court. Last week, Hungary's Lutheran Church took another step toward surrender to the Red state by choosing an avowed supporter of the Communist regime to succeed Ordass. He was Laszlo Dezsery, 36, who had made his stand amply clear when two years ago he denounced his fellow pastors...
Jerry H. Miller--Weld; Student Council Finance Committee; freshman track; Lutheran Student Association; Union Dance Committee; Outing Club...
Work was resumed last Monday after a delay of four months on the church being built behind the Indoor Athletic Building The revised plans for the new University Lutheran church were finally approved by the Cambridge Planning Board at a hearing last month...
Pattison listed a round dozen "recent" incidents, gathered in a week spent in Colombia inspecting hospitals, schools and other works of the 39 Presbyterian missionaries now there. The Presbyterians, he said, had not been the only ones mistreated. Wrote he: "The Lutheran Church, which, with the Presbyterians, has the largest United States mission representation in Colombia, is ready to add its expressed protest to the religious persecution being experienced by Protestants under the present regime. The Scandinavian Alliance missionaries have been forced to leave-fleeing to Venezuela. Smaller groups have experienced at least as severe persecution...