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...Ransom values of U. S. missionaries to Chinese bandits fluctuate widely. Thus the Lutheran Mission at Hankow paid $2,350 plus $1,300 worth of medical supplies last week for Rev. K. N. Tvedt; but Mongolian bandits let Rev. Allie Godfrey Lindholm of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission go cheap for $600. Murdered recently by discharged Chinese servants at Yunnanfu were two Seventh Day Adventlst missionary-wives, Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller & Mrs. Vera Mosebar White...
Century ago there were in the U. S. ten church members for every 75 persons. Now there are ten for every 25. (Total number of communicants: 50,037,245.) Dr. George Linn Kieffer, statistical secretary of the United Lutheran Church, declared in the Christian Herald: " the churches are losing ground, the reason and the remedy can be found in part in an analysis of the message they are proclaiming to the world. An age of doubt and question, of depression and lawlessness demands from the pulpits of the land a clear ringing statement?'We should fear and love...
...Frederick Hermann Knubel, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, suspected the motives of those who had brought Birth Control up for discussion. He connected it with a period "notorious for looseness in sexual morality...
...Composed of 27 Protestant denominations (representing between 22,000,000 and 23,000,000 Protestants) of which 25 hold full membership. The Protestant Episcopal Church has "cooperative" membership. The United Lutheran Church in America has "consultative" membership. Delegates of the former vote at annual meetings; the latter...
Clergymen have been hailing Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson of Minneapolis who accepted a court sentence rather than reveal secrets confided to him by a parish- ioner (TIME, March 16). The Press, which also hailed Pastor Swenson, last week hailed even more loudly a "martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city...