Word: lutheranism
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Last week the Rev. Walter Arthur Maier, the "Chrysostom of American Lutheranism," † inaugurated "the biggest religious event of the year." In Chicago's Stadium the radio pulpiteer opened the eleventh season of the Lutheran Hour ("Bringing Christ to the Nations...
Powerful. Sam Rayburn's job has often been called the "second most powerful job in the nation." From the days of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, the German Lutheran pastor who presided over Congress' first sessions in New York, Speakers of the House have written their will and words into U.S. history. Some of the mighty...
...Bishops of Denmark are militant Christians. Early this year Bishop J. J. A. Ammundsen of Lolland-Falster warned his Lutheran flock to be ready for martyrdom. Last week to the U.S. came news of increasing militancy. In Copenhagen Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard thundered: "We shall pray and kindle the spirit. There was never any use for cowardly clergymen, least of all today...
When the Nazis rode roughshod over Denmark, they carefully bypassed the two Bishops, but they banned religious services in parts of Denmark, arrested Vilhelm Fibiger, former Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, three Lutheran Pastors...
Clarence W. Helsing, S.P.W., a 1940 graduate of the New England Conservatory and for three years the music director at the First Lutheran Church in Providence, is to conduct the group. Lieutenant Carl Knudsen, Chaplain USNR, is responsible for the organization of the chorus...