Word: lutheranism
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That was in 1787, when Philadelphia convicts were commonly chained to barrows, forced to work in the streets. The Episcopal Church of Bishop White, the Lutheran Ministerium of Dr. Rogers and the Society of Friends joined in founding the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, dedicated to the then radical proposal that "such degrees and modes of punishment may be discovered and suggested as may, instead of continuing habits of vice, become the means of restoring our fellow citizens to virtue and happiness." Once admitted to work in prisons, the Society flourished, changed its name...
...oldest prison reform group in the world, the oldest organized charity in the U. S., the Prison Society last week celebrated its 150th birthday with vesper services at Old Christ Church, with Bishop Francis Marion Taitt representing the Episcopal Church, President Ernst Philip Píatteicher the Lutheran Ministerium, Secretary William B. Harvey the Orthodox Friends...
...little more investigation would have revealed to Philadelphia's ministers that Coach Harman's Biblical team is no publicity stunt but the nub of a talk he has delivered at dinners and to young churchgoers some 200 times in the past six years. Son of a Lutheran minister and brother of another, bulky, slow-speaking Harvey Harman, 36, speaks once a week for nothing, as often as he is additionally booked for pay. Says he: "I like to help out the preachers, because they have a hard time holding the young people...
...Bishop in his preface: "The German of the Third Reich must know what Christ, Whom the Jews nailed to the cross, means." More than once the phrase "The Jews jeered and said'' appears in the new Nazified version instead of "Then said the Jews," as in the Lutheran version. "Jewland" takes the place of the original "Judea" and this "Jewland" is carefully distinguished from the province of Galilee, where Christ preached. The implication is that this was not in "Jewland." Throughout the new Gospel it is implied that Christ and His disciples were not Jews. Jewish names such...
...morning last week in the East Room of the White House a small mountain of flowers was banked between the huge portraits of George and Martha Washington. Before the flowers the ornate South American coffin of Gus Gennerich lay in state. Over it a Lutheran minister read the second funeral service for the Presidential bodyguard who dropped dead in Buenos Aires. Among the 300 listeners seated on gilt chairs were George and Augustus Gutrie, bereaved brother-in-law and nephew, Cabinet members and their ladies, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, Mrs. Roosevelt, the President himself, sunburned, leaner, refreshed from 28 days...