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...grimly preparing for the worst, did Finland's gruff, humbly born, dark-bearded and deeply beloved President Kyosti Kallio last week depart. He left Helsinki by air for Stockholm to confer in desperate earnest with the three tall, umptigenarian Kings of Scandinavia, all markedly democratic, each a devout Lutheran and all keenly aware that the unleashed might of ruthless, un-Christian Bolsheviks and Nazis now menaces the peaceful Nordic States...
Protestant aumônier général is France's most famed Protestant-tall, white-haired, meticulous Rev. Marc Boegner, 58, under whose leadership 1,000,000 French Protestants, representing all the big churches save the Lutheran (in Alsace) and the Baptist, were reunited last year after a century of schism. Half of Général Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
...organization were speedily disabused when they saw who the commission's chairman was. He is one of Philadelphia's most vigorous parsons, Rev. Dr. Nathan Raymond Melhorn, 67, a horny-handed, red-cheeked white-crested onetime farm boy who, since 1920, has been editor of The Lutheran, organ of the United Lutheran Church...
Year ago the United Lutheran Synod of New York considered instituting courses in sex education, "by Christian physicians of both sexes," in its Sunday schools. The Synod shelved the embarrassing question for a twelvemonth. Last week, in its annual convention in Albany, it heard from a Lutheran layman, Dr. G. A. Schnepel, that "sex is as clean as the stars if it is handled right." From a Lutheran pastor, Rev. Paul Andrew Kirsch, it heard that sex education has been "overemphasized and overpublicized." The Synod decided to keep sex out of Sunday School, leave sex education to Lutheran parents...