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...Lutheran Church's estimated world membership is 81 million souls. It is third in size to the Roman Catholic Church (estimated worldwide membership, 331,500,000; Orthodox Eastern Church, 144,000,000) among all Christian denominations. Leading Lutherans have long felt that the energies of their church, now dissipated by national boundaries, could be concentrated to better effect through a worldwide federation. Such an alliance was already projected under the name of the Lutheran World Convention in 1923. Last week when the National Lutheran Council held its annual meeting in Manhattan, the work of the Lutheran World Convention...
Prime mover and President of the L. W. C. is Dr. John Alfred Morehead, 62, of Manhattan, native Virginian, onetime Lutheran pastor, onetime (1908-19) President of his alma mater, Roanoke College (Va.). He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, is well-traveled. His task of unifying Lutherans, even on paper, is calculated to require five or six years. Dr. Morehead is now the first world executive of any Protestant denomination...
Other business of the National Lutheran Council meeting included appropriating $69,000 for world service and emergency relief in 1930, and $50,000 for the encouragement, maintenance and relief of the Lutheran church in Russia and to help struggling Lutheran churches in smaller European countries. The $50,000 must also support European seminarians and foreign missionary emergency work. Dr. Gustaf Albert Brandelle of Rock Island, Ill., was re-elected President of the council for the coming year...
Twenty atrocious murders in a few weeks, ten more slashings have reduced the citizens to a state of mind in which respectable women were to be seen in Lutheran Churches screaming that Satan again walks the Earth, imploring Heaven's protection. For several weeks Dusseldorf schoolchildren have been toddling to kindergarten or walking fearfully to gymnasium (high school) accompanied by armed posses or riding in busses guarded by policemen with cocked Mauser pistols Entirely baffled, the Dusseldorf police recently sent for Berlin detectives whose methods-typical of the deepest dyed Austro-German psychiatric and psychoanalytical school-have been scaring...
...workday afternoon the U. S. Senate took a recess until the next morning. The conflagration which had destroyed "Trail's End" had also wiped out the Farmer-Labor Party in the House of Representatives. For Mr. Kvale was not only a minister of the Lutheran Gospel but a member of Congress. He was the Congressman who reached Washington by defeating the once-famed Andrew John Volstead for reelection...