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Every evening at 7, last week, the 1,810,076 members of the United Lutheran Church in America were asked to "pray . for the press." The prayer: that "all who gather and publish the news . . . may discharge their trust in the interest of godliness and good order...
...conferences of 1937, which gathered the most comprehensive assemblage of official church representatives in 400 years. In 1939 the three major denominations of U.S. Methodism merged into one church; in 1940 the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church officially united. In 1942 the American and United Lutheran churches recognized a "fellowship of pulpit and altar," stopped just short of organic union. Recently the U.S. Quakers healed their 119-year-old Hicksite-Orthodox schism (TIME, Nov. 18). Negotiations are currently under way between Northern and Southern Presbyterians...
...Among them: J.P. Morgan the Elder, Columbia University's Seth Low, Financier Robert Fulton Cutting. *Who once observed, in an address to the New York Lutheran Ministers Association: "In the Episcopal Church the bishop is an interesting decoration. We must have someone around to say grace at banquets...
Divided into 25 pairs, equipped with orange-&-black arm bands labeled "G.I. Lutheran Team," they spent three weeks last month calling on each of the 600 families represented in the congregation. They pointed out to AWOL church members that though times are dark, if more people went to church, things might get brighter. Most Sunday stay-at-homes promised to mend their ways; only one family gave the G.I.s a complete brushoff...
...began passing out attendance cards for members of the congregation to sign. The first Sunday showed notable improvement: a congregation of 510-70% above the average. Last Sunday's tally stood at 545. In the next month, those who are still AWOL will receive another call from the Lutheran G.I.s...