Word: lutheranism
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Appreciative Lutheran...
...would thank you most sincerely for the splendid article you published in TIME, Oct. 28 with reference to the World Convention of the Lutheran Church. It is bright and attractive; yet, at the same time bringing out the distinctive qualities of that gathering...
...advertisement had been inserted by Rev. Julius Sathmary, 27, Hungarian-born Lutheran who during the past three years had a congregation near Pittsburgh. He arrived in Manhattan last June to shepherd a congregation of 160 families which has no church of its own. With some cash and the backing of the Lutheran Board of American Missions, Mr. Sathmary & flock made ready to buy one. Of 56 replies to their advertisement, eight offered to sell apartment houses, one a saloon. Mr. Sathmary's building committee began a painstaking tour of inspection of the other...
Their director was Robert Lippert, a big, tense, jowly man who was once a boy soprano in the German Lutheran Church in Olean, N. Y. Robert Lippert well remembers when he was 13 and his father, the choirmaster, gave him a gold watch and said: "Son, you can't sing with us any longer." Though Son Lippert's voice changed, his interest in choral singing persisted. As he grew up, he organized choirs of his own, concentrated on the relationship of the voice to a boy's physical development. His conclusion was that voices do not necessarily...
...Morehead is tall, handsome, white-haired. As president of Roanoke College (1908-19), his persuasiveness in money-raising gave rise to a saying: "No use going after money now. Morehead 's just been through." After 1919 he traveled through Europe working for the relief of poor Lutherans and their churches, earned the title of "best-known Lutheran in the world...