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...pioneer in "internship" training for Seminary graduates is the United Lutheran Church (TIME, Nov. 1. Religion...
...Atlantic City at a missions meeting of the United Lutheran Church it was revealed that, out of 5,786 United Lutheran congregations in the U. S. and Canada, 50 wished more able ministers, could not find them. The United Lutheran missions board, to prevent such want in the future, adopted an "interneship" plan for seminary graduates. Outstanding candidates for the Lutheran ministry (from eleven seminaries), will serve four months as assistants in successful Lutheran city churches, four months in successful mission churches, four months in unsuccessful mission churches, emerging with a year's experience in about all the problems...
...religious affiliation obtained at registration, give the numerical representation of the various sects as follows: Baptist 157 Buddhist 4 Catholic 747 Christian Church 42 Christian Science 108 Congregational 410 Disciples of Christ 4 Dutch Reform 8 Episcopalians 469 Ethical Culture 2 Greek Orthodox 13 Jewish 827 Jewish Reformed 11 Lutheran 87 Methodist and Methodist Episcopal 258 Mormon 24 Mohammedan 3 Presbyterian 456 Protestant 226 Quaker (Friends)28 Unitarian...
...Christian Herald's statistician was the late Dr. George Linn Kieffer, a respected Lutheran who died after completing the last census. So the National Lutheran Council, offended by Moderator Babson's statement, rechecked with reporting churches, last week issued a rebuttal to Moderator Babson's charge. Every church, said the Council, stuck by its figures. In many cases, however, church bodies had to take the word of local ministers as to how many parishioners were enrolled. Chief point in favor of the Christian Herald figures: church assessments and quotas, even when marked up to assure a decent...
...some visiting Germans drove to the nearby Black Forest, others gazed at Stuttgart's modernistic buildings, Bishop Theophil Würm-one of the Lutheran signers of a declaration drafted last week against Nazi religious aims-delivered a fighting sermon to his usual Sunday congregation in the Württemberg capital...