Word: lutheranism
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Inflation of the German mark after the War ruined a rich uncle who had offered to set up Martin Niemoller as a farmer in Tecklenburg. He turned to the relative financial security of Germany's State-supported Lutheran Church, became a pastor in 1924. Ten years later Pastor Niemoller, who threw into saving German souls the same brawling vigor that stood him in good stead sinking ships, had corralled Berlin's wealthiest and most influential congregation for his Jesus Christus Kirche in the swank suburb Dahlem. Such redoubtable parishioners as Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, autocratic Reichsbank Governor...
Moscow correspondents, refused official information, picked up from terrified Christians reports that not only the Orthodox but also the Lutheran clergy are being "ruthlessly purged." Although the Government did not admit the arrest of the Metropolitans no one in Moscow doubted that it had taken place. Stalin's crusher was once more at work...
...Cathedral seemed to be chiefly fascinated by the fact that the pale blue satin Paris gown of the Duchess of Kent was closed all the way down the front with a zipper. After the Orthodox wedding the royal pair were joined in holy matrimony a second time by a Lutheran pastor from Germany, then went to be legally married by civil authorities and the bride was recorded to have changed her name from the German Frederika to the Greek Margaritas. Driving off in a golden coach lent them by the King, the pair attracted such attention that mounted police...
Having thus from his pulpit addressed his congregation in Woodstock, Va. one January Sunday in 1776, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg flung wide his Lutheran minister's gown, revealed himself in the uniform of a colonel of the Continental Army. The congregation cheered. That day Pastor Muhlenberg gained 300 recruits to his 8th Virginia regiment, called "the German regiment" and a model of efficiency. Colonel Muhlenberg, son of a German who in 1748 organized the first American Lutheran federation, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, had gone to Woodstock in 1772 after journeying to England to be ordained an Anglican minister, since...
Last week, on approximately the 162nd anniversary of this Lutheran hero's greatest sermon, the United Lutheran Church in America took to the radio to honor him and itself, the date (January 1) being also the 20th anniversary of this largest U. S. Lutheran body (1,523,022 members), which was formed by merging three of the many scattered groups which make up U. S. Lutheranism. Listening in on NBC's Red network, Lutherans heard Muhlenberg's recruiting sermon dramatized, heard his connection with "The Cradle of the Nation" glorified by Virginia's Governor George Campbell...