Word: lutheranism
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...Lutheran until his marriage in 1894. Since then he has been a Congregationalist...
...Christ. Last December, Pope Pius XI instituted by encyclical letter to Catholics the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King to be celebrated the last Sunday in October. Many leaders of creeds other than Catholic applauded the idea. Then the discussion waned until last week, when the National Lutheran Council (representing 2,500,000 U.S. Lutherans in America and meeting in Chicago) unhooded a hawking, soaring criticism...
...burning religious modifications. Martin Luther (1483-1546) in Germany led the revolt for Reformation against the current Catholicism. There Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) followed and modified somewhat Luther's tenets. To Switzerland John Calvin (1509-64), a Frenchman, migrated, learned the doctrine of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531). The Lutheran Church follows Luther's teachings. The Presbyterian and the Reformed Churches follow those of Calvin and Zwingli...
Henry John was religious. For more than 20 years he was superintendent of a Methodist Sunday School, although he had been brought up a strict Lutheran. His parents wanted him to become a minister and this religious attitude he kept throughout his life. How sore his heart when word was brought to him that smart-Alex Pittsburgh saloonkeepers had wanged out a ribald ditty at his expense. Nigger-prancers,* bum- mers, street sheiks, tenderloin riff-raff were chanting all over Pittsburgh, all over...
...sessions of the conference proceeded with lofty and generous discussion of the work of the church in the world. A notable exception to unanimity was an objection to a resolution which declared war to be unChristian. The objection came from the Germans, was voiced by Lutheran Bishop Klingemann...