Word: lutheranism
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...their last Sunday, the condemned were visited by prison chaplains. The Catholics among .the eleven made their confessions. Only Streicher and Rosenberg refused the Sabbath solace. For the Protestants, the Rev. H. F. Gerecke, of the German Lutheran Church, intoned a prayer (which the prisoners repeated after him): "Over an ocean of hatred, His forgiving love is spread. . . . We may die at His side. . . . Lord Jesus, You have descended to human pain and felt death. You will not abandon us. Have mercy on us. Forgive us our sins. . . . We come from the erring . . . from the misery and the guilt...
This militant mouthful was spoken by ex-Captain Charles Killian Woltz, 32, on behalf of a team of 50 Lutheran war veterans in Richmond, Va. It all began in a veterans' Sunday-school class, which soon turned into a weekly bull session on the state of the world judged by Christian standards. Like most honest men, the ex-G.I.s found the world's state parlous. They decided to do something about it. Church attendance was poor-an average 280 per service out of a confirmed membership of almost 1,000. The veterans' plan: to jog their...
...seen only one movie in the last six months. By skimping in this and a dozen other ways, solemn, 31-year-old Martin Graebner manages to scrape through on $140 a month. The G.I. Bill of Rights allows him $90. He makes up the difference by acting as campus Lutheran chaplain...
Said Dean Frederick Nolde of Philadelphia's Mount Airy Lutheran Theological Seminary, to explain the vital need for such unprecedented cooperation: "Christians are a minority in the world. If they do not become organized, their voices will not be heard in the councils of the world and they will have no effect...
...Lutheran Theological Seminary...