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...Manhattan, Rev. Dr. George Unangst Wenner celebrated the 66th anniversary of his ordination as a Lutheran pastor. White-bearded and slightly deaf at 90, Dr. Wenner is the oldest U. S. minister in point of service. In 1867, a Yale graduate and a Union Theological seminarian, he began preaching in a blacksmith shop on 14th Street. Soon he founded Christ Church on 19th Street on the far East Side. His congregation grew to 500, then dwindled with an influx of Jews and Italians. With 120 members, Christ Church today shares its building with an Italian congregation. Pastor Wenner preaches...
There are only half as many Protestants as Catholics in Bavaria, but those there are as stubborn as Scots Calvinists. Of all the 28 onetime independent Lutheran state churches of Germany, only two up to last week still held out against the whip-snapping of Adolf Hitler's bullet-headed Realm Bishop Ludwig Müller (TIME, Oct 1 et ante). This bold pair were the provincial churches of Bavaria and Württemberg. Though 95% of Württem-berg's clergy had voted to support their anti-Nazi Bishop Theophil Wurm, the Nazi whip cracked early...
From Berlin had come Dr. August Jaeger, Realm Bishop Miiller's legal adviser. With chin out, Dr. Jaeger, surrounded by four detectives and a squad of secret police, stomped into the Lutheran Synod Hall, demanded the keys of the safe and proceeded to lay down the law. One elderly pastor remained seated at the Nazis' entrance. "ON YOUR FEET!" bellowed Dr. August Jaeger...
...complete census follows: Episcopalian, 1096; Jewish, 840; Catholic, 796; Congregational, 473; Presbyterian, 419; Unitarian, 341; Methodist, 315; Protestant (unspecified) 158; Baptist, 147; Christian Science, 75; Lutheran, 70; Christian Faith, 43; Quakers, 27; Reformed Church, 18; Greek Orthodox, 17; Latter Day Saints, 11; Swedenborgian, 7; Ethical Culture, 7; Dutch Reformed, 7; Evangelical Church, 5; Church of Brethren, 6; Community Church, 4; Buddhist, 4; Seventh Day Adventists, Russian Orthodox, Union Church, Hindu, Moslem, two each; Calvary Reformed, Church of God, Free Church, Federated Church, Mennonite, Orthodox, Calvinist, Modern Humanist, Liberal, Buchanan, Albanian Orthodox, Moravian Universalist, Disciples of Christ, Christendom, Pentecostal, one each...
...also a man, an insignificant song writer and storm trooper, carefully chosen as a party hero because there was something in his background to appeal to almost every one of the heterogeneous groups that make up the Nazi party. Horst Wessel was the son of a well-known Lutheran pastor; that was for the Conservatives. He was a registered law student at the University of Berlin; that was for the Intellectuals. He was a that was for the Aristocrats. He led the notorious Fifth Storm Battalion, and spent his life in a series of fights with Communist gangsters in Berlin...