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...Broadcasting Co. gives time to the Federal Council of Churches and the Catholic Hour run by the National Council of Catholic Men. Judged by fan mail, however, none of these programs is radio's most popular religious broadcast. That distinction belongs to a sectarian, time-buying program-the Lutheran Hour, which in the past three years has expanded from two to 62 stations on the Mutual Broadcasting System. With Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, professor at St. Louis' Concordia Theological Seminary, as its speaker, the Lutheran Hour draws as many as 8,000 letters, as much...
...March American Lutheran: "When the pastor sits in the Sanctuary during the course of the service he ought to behave in a seemly manner. Lounging, leg-crossing, nose-picking, yawning should be postponed to the hours of relaxation in the parsonage. Most of our pastors are robed, and while they are thus solemnly attired personal mannerisms should be completely under control. Their sanctuary habits should be impeccable...
Forty-eight years ago March 1, Isaac Kauffman Funk and Adam Willis Wagnalls, both Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...
...United Lutheran Church, whose hospital in Tsingtao, Shantung has been carrying a heavy load during the war, appealed for relief funds in January, but has not increased its annual budget of some $25,000. Since last autumn the Methodist board of foreign missions has collected $61,000 above its budget, about one third of what it needs. Lately missionaries of the University of Nanking (in which Methodists and four other denominations cooperate) made a remarkable 1,000-mile trek to West China Union University in Chengtu, a three-week trip by boat past Hankow and through the Yangtze gorges. This...
...Niemoller began preaching about the Nazis very much as though they were ships he wanted to torpedo. As he had fought for the Kaiser, he now fought for the Church, and in Berlin most churchmen agree today that but for Niemoller most of the opposition to Hitler within the Lutheran fold would probably have been beaten down. Seven months ago the Gestapo (Secret Police), who had searched Pastor Niemoller's home repeatedly, finally clapped him into Moabit Prison on the triply seditious charge of ''misuse of the pulpit to vilify the State and the Party and attack...