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...Louis, two other Protestant churches took a cautious step toward what they hope will eventually be a happy marriage. The ultra-conservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (membership: 1,690,000) and the middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church (membership: 689,310) announced an "agreement on doctrine," subject to approval of the two churches' national conventions. Said Dr. William Arndt of the Missouri Synod: "There may be some details of the unification that will have to be worked out later, but at least this is a start...
...behalf of the Protestants, young Stewart Herman, chief of the Lutheran World Federation Immigration Service, explained: "It's not a question of Catholics' supplying more rosaries or our supplying more layettes. What's happened is that we've recognized the social obligations of our churches as identical and have . . . united to raise our voices on behalf of the refugees. We only hope our pleas will be heard...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, 56, hard-driving Lutheran teacher (Concordia Theological Seminary) and preacher, whose sternly fundamentalist radio sermons (The Lutheran Hour), begun in 1935, reached an audience of millions in 36 languages through 1,200 stations; of a coronary thrombosis; in St. Louis...
Construction of a $200,000 church on Winthrop Street, behind the Indoor Athletic Building, will begin as soon as demolition of a three-story red brick tenement is completed, it was learned last night. The church, which will serve Lutheran students of Greater Boston, is being built by the congregation of University Lutheran Church...
Careful Reading. "If Mrs. Roosevelt's discussion were really anti-Catholic," Dr. Behnken reasoned, "it would be anti-Lutheran, too. Lutherans have as much enthusiasm for protecting the best interests of their church, their schools and their children as the Roman Catholics have. Careful reading of Mrs. Roosevelt's statements in her discussion of federal aid to schools convinces us that they were not hostile to religion or to any individual church...