Word: lutheranism
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...Earl's views on adultery (TIME, March 11). Soon echoes of Bishop Manning's indignation gonged around Manhattan pulpits, and the Hearst press charged that Earl Russell was 1) irreligious, 2) immoral, 3) radical, 4) alien. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Catholic Daughters of America, the Lutheran Society, Inc., the Metropolitan Baptist Ministers Conference, all passed hot resolutions. Last week the Roman Catholic Church went on record. Before 6,000 policemen at a Communion breakfast, a speaker cried: "As [policemen] you have learned the full meaning of what is called a matrimonial triangle. . . . You have seen...
Finland, like the Scandinavian nations, is mostly Lutheran. Lately Archbishop Erkki Kaila, head of beleaguered Finland's National Church, sent a stout S O S to Christendom: "In the name of the Finnish Christendom, I ... dare to turn to you to ask for spiritual and material support for my people and its Church now exposed to persecution. . . . We have full confidence that the Christian Churches will not leave us to fight out this struggle alone. God have mercy...
Last Sunday, U. S. Lutheran churches responded by asking their 4,000,000 members for a tidy war-relief fund, $500,000, most of which is to be given to the Finnish Church.* Lutheran leaders assured prospective donors that they were not in any way duplicating the job of the Hoover Finnish Relief Fund (collected to date...
...Lutheran foreign missions in India, China, Africa, New Guinea, Palestine need $150,000. All are crippled by war, and those in the British Empire are hampered by the internment of their German pastors...
Last week, more than a month after announcing his appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his private Ambassador to the Pope, the President had cause to stop, look and listen. Representatives of 15,000,000 U. S. Christians (Baptists, Lutherans, Seventh Day Adventists) let their uneasiness be loudly heard. The National Lutheran Council, representing two-thirds of 4,867,124 Lutherans, formally objected to the Taylor appointment. Meeting for the first time since the President's announcement, the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches (24 denominations) approved the appointment in so far as it is "strictly temporary...