Word: lutheranism
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York Springs Lutheran Parish...
...gentle people, the missionaries of Finschhafen, and their mission had been there a long while. They had built churches and schools on the wild New Guinea coast, and they had raised the black New Guinea children in the ways of God. They were Germans, of course, but they were Lutheran Germans. When they sang, their song was some fine old Lutheran hymn like Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress...
When World War II broke out, Australian authorities interned G. Pilhofer, the few known Nazis at Finschhafen, and some others-29 in all-who were suspect. A few German Lutherans, including Dr. Lehner, were allowed to remain, and the U.S.-Australian Lutherans at Madang on the same coast sent seven of their people to save Finschhafen for the church. Among the seven was Dr. Agnes Hoeger, a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Medical School and the daughter of a Lutheran pastor at Fargo...
...Lutherans in the U.S. refused to believe that Drs. Lehner, Hoeger and their like were aiding the Japs. Perhaps some of the mission employes had been persuaded or compelled to guide the invaders. Perhaps Garns and Rabbe had sneaked back to the station, or had never gone to Germany at all. As for tales of Nazi trinkets in the mission, good Lutherans were puzzled or incredulous. It was not God's way, and it was not the Lutheran...
After their mass resignation (TIME, March 9), Norway's Lutheran bishops were ordered to report twice daily to the Gestapo. So they assembled in Oslo, reported in a body, in their official garb. Crowds gathered to cheer them. The baffled Gestapo has now ordered them to report to a more obscure station...