Word: lutheranism
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...Lutheran Church is far from strong in France, where Lutherans were the first Protestant martyrs and where, at the University of the Sorbonne, Martin Luther's writings were publicly burned in 1521. Last week the President of France received, and the Sorbonne honored with a Doctorate of Theology, a world-famed Lutheran-Dr. John Alfred Morehead. In Pans along with Dr. Morehead were the Archbishops of Finland and Sweden, the presidents of the Lutheran Church in China and Hungary, three able leaders of the Church in Germany and representatives of all but one U. S. Lutheran sect. They were...
...Buchman, proud as a man may be who was a Pennsylvania Lutheran welfare worker before he became an international figure, arose and said...
...place of beefy, bumbling Edward J. Reilly of Brooklyn, who is now suing Hauptmann for a $25,000 fee. In the meantime Prisoner Hauptmann, never a churchman, has acquired a "spiritual adviser" in the person of one Rev. D. G. Werner from Manhattan. Under the calming influence of this Lutheran divine, Bruno Richard Hauptmann has seen four of his fellow prisoners go to death in the electric chair, the fate to which he was sentenced by a Justice of the State's Supreme Court (TIME...
...Lutheran bishop, Emanuel Swedenborg spent his time between the ages of four and ten in "thought upon God, salvation and the spiritual experience of men." Some of his precocious revelations made his father & mother conclude that angels were speaking through him, decide to put a stop to "these celestial excursions." But at 57 his anatomical search for man's soul turned Swedenborg once more to supernatural intercourse. This time he had no doubt that the angels and spirits were real. They scattered sweet or disagreeable odors on his body, produced pain, heat, cold. One night some evil spirits...
...First church building fund campaign since 1931 was launched by Brooklyn's Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, which wants a $125,000 Sunday School. C, The annual Official Catholic Directory, published last week, as it has been since 1913, by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, announced a "substantial increase" of 100 new church buildings...