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...Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., director of the Peoples' Institute of Applied Religion; George Walker Buckner Jr., editor of the World Call of the Disciples of Christ; Phillips P. Elliott, a Brooklyn Presbyterian pastor; Dr. Emory Stevens Bucke, editor of Methodism's Zions Herald; and septuagenarian Lutheran leader Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler. Dr. Trexler demanded the company of his personal physician...
...campers are Quakers, all attend daily meetings for worship, and the entire community is drawn into the Sunday meeting. Like all Quaker meetings-for-worship, the liturgy-less silence may be broken by any worshiper who feels prompted by the "inner light" to. speak. Even the older, stalwart Lutheran Finns attend now; after coming for several weeks, they begin to speak, in their dry, taciturn way. Some of the campers are unhappy about this development; the totally silent meetings seemed the easiest answer to the 17 declensions of the Finnish language...
Last week in Chicago, the Synod ended a ten-day celebration of its centennial, attended by 950 delegates representing nearly 5,000 congregations all over the U.S. Stern fundamentalists, they did nothing more revolutionary than to vote in favor of shortening their official name to the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. On the subject of church unity, the delegates were even more cautious than usual. Though they declared a "sincere desire [for] true scriptural unity" with the middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church,* they rescinded unity measures which had been adopted by the 1938 convention, on the grounds that efforts...
Anxious as ever to protect their young from the doctrinal indifference of the secular world, the delegates resolved that the Synod should aim during the next 25 years to get 50% of its children into parochial schools. Present percentage: 27.8%, in 1,090 parochial schools. For Missouri Synod Lutheran theological students they voted a new $1,500,000 senior college. They also agreed to raise $2,500,000 for world relief...
...middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church has 624,714 members. U.S. Lutheranism's largest group is the "liberal" United Lutheran Church in America: 1,810,076. The Missouri Synod...