Word: lutheranism
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...Pledged equal treatment and recognition to all Christian denominations, after a White House visit by Lutheran, Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist leaders, who came to protest his appointment of a representative to the Papal State (TIME, Jan. 1). To these Mr. Roosevelt outlined, in deepest secrecy, his tentative program for peace proposals. Later, it was learned, the appointment to Rome of Myron C. Taylor may fall through. The President wants to take advantage of the Vatican's unsurpassed diplomatic coverage through world-wide listening posts; the Vatican is not so keen...
Mendelssohn: "Reformation" Symphony (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). A converted Lutheran, Jewish Composer Mendelssohn wrote his "Reformation" Symphony to commemorate the Lutheran credo's 300th birthday. Conductor Barlow gives its neat, tuneful phrases their first modern recording...
Except for the fact that it was in English, this service one day last week, in Cleveland's Faith Lutheran Church, much resembled a Roman Catholic Mass. It was Martin Luther's Formula Missae et Communionis, a liturgical service which the great Reformer instituted in 1523. To most U. S. Lutherans, more averse to incense, tapers and vestments than Luther was, this Mass might have seemed abhorrent-although its language still informs the Lutheran Common Service...
...Cleveland's Pastor Piepkorn, a Lutheran prodigy who was a Ph.D. and a pastor before he was 23, is a convinced liturgist. Alone (so far as he knows) among U. S. Lutherans, he revived the Luther Formula last year, repeated the service to a packed church last week. The occasion, dear to Lutherans: Reformation Day. Pastor Piepkorn wound up his service by reading the 95 Theses which Martin Luther, 422 years before, nailed on the door of the church in Wittenberg...
Later in the evening Lutheran massed choirs and Swedish patriotic organizations carrying over 700 banners-among them the red flag of Swedish labor, which is Socialist-approached the Royal Palace chanting solemnly, then began to shout "Kallio! Kallio!" Dr. Kallio, often considered dour, suddenly appeared with tears of emotion in his eyes, escorted onto a Palace balcony by the Three Kings and amid deafening cheers the four men linked arms, stood solemnly while the crowd sang the national anthems of their countries and ended with that grand old Lutheran fighting hymn...