Word: lutheranism
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...sectarians, and always speak softly to all sects. President Hoover, Quaker, has been particularly cautious. His victory over Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith was fraught with religious feeling. When he sends a greeting to a religious convention-as to the Catholics at Omaha (TIME, Sept. 29) or to the Lutherans at Milwaukee (TIME, Oct. 20) he tries hard to be noncommittal. But sometimes a President, or his aide, slips.* At once some sensitive soul cries out in anguish or anger. This happened last week. A prominent Roman Catholic flayed President Hoover for his greeting to the Lutherans, which was: Hoover...
...American Lutheran Conference; at Minneapolis. Purpose: federation of Lutheran bodies in the U. S. & Canada...
With the same expediency which has marked 400 years of Lutheranism, the United Lutheran Church in America at Milwaukee last week modified two old tenets to accommodate existing conditions...
...cause for divorce. But they were obliged to recognize that divorce "is now accepted in large circles as a necessary and salutary expedient of modern life, affording a convenient means of escape when the continuance in the marriage relationship has ceased for any reason to be desirable." The United Lutherans voted to add "malicious desertion" to adultery as a divorce cause. The innocent party of a Lutheran divorce may remarry, after one year...
Probably because he is a personification of their mixture of mysticism and practicality, the United Lutherans elected for his seventh term as president Frederick Hermann Knubel, 60, of Manhattan. He is a tall, wiry, active man who does not require his Vandyke beard to point up his distinguished bearing. He hates procrastination or inactivity, despises every form of cant, characteristics which he showed 37 years ago when he won first honors at Gettysburg (Pa.) College, venerable Lutheran preparatory school for the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. The year the Seminary graduated him he married Christine Ritscher of Jersey City...