Word: lutheranism
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Solid and sober as the great Martin Luther looked is U. S. Lutheranism, the intensely individualist faith of many a farmer and small-towner, many a Scandinavian and German-American who still speaks the European tongue of his forebears. Because of the sect's diffuse organization, there is as yet no great single U. S. Lutheran Church whose head might speak with the authority of a Catholic archbishop. Biggest Lutheran body in U. S. is the United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches...
...Should the United Lutheran Church defer to progress and allow women on its boards and bureaus? The delegates stepped forward first by making the Women's Missionary Society an official body, later voting women eligible to the governing bodies...
...Should the United Lutheran Church make bishops, as in Europe, of the heads of its 34 synods? President Knubel was dubious, pointing out that synod presidents are elected for terms, whereas bishops should hold their posts for life. The convention appointed a special commission to study the question, report at the 1938 meeting...
...Still up for consideration at week's end was a bigger problem: should the United Lutheran Church move to merge with other U. S. bodies, notably the American Lutheran Church? That body, which was meeting simultaneously in San Antonio, had postponed action on the matter for two years...
...rapidly rose in his esteem, becoming one of his most trusted generals. Thrown into prison and sentenced to execution, following Napoleon's downfall, he made a miraculous escape to this country where he spent the remainder of his life as an author, lecturer, teacher and minister of the Lutheran Church...