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...suit of one Gladys Sundseth of Minneapolis for a divorce from her husband Arnold has assumed large significance in the annals of the Lutheran Church. Called as a witness at the hearings last fortnight was Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson, Augustana Synod, who was questioned as follows...
...Pastor Swenson: "That conversation was held in confidence and I cannot reveal it. The rules of the church forbid me to reveal information imparted to me confidentially, and in good conscience I have to refuse to answer the question...
...master. He wanted to better Midland, give it a Methodist church, a bank, a grain elevator; but Midland did not want to be bettered, was not really sorry when one day the express train killed John Durken. Son Bruce came back from his Methodist college to be Midland's pastor. Better educated, more articulate a fanatic than his father, he raised more hell in Midland than old John had ever dreamed of or wanted...
What caused Pastor Armistead to set his bells to ringing was a pamphlet entitled "Conclusions and Recommendations," which the Commission had issued in Washington as a prelude to their full Report. Newsgatherers had naturally reported it at once. It gave a distinctly Dry impression (TIME, Jan. 26). But when the newsgatherers received and ploughed through the whole 80,000-word Report, it became apparent that "Conclusions and Recommendations" had very little to do with what President Hoover's Commissioners on Law Enforcement & Law Observance had really decided about Prohibition after 20 months of study and the expenditure...
Died. Dr. William Coleman Bitting, 73, pastor of Second Baptist Church in St. Louis from 1905 to 1924; in St. Louis, Mo. Known as a liberal, his most famed statement was: "I am bound by no creed. Personally, I am a Metho-formed, Presby-gational, Bapto-palian. I am not trying to get men into Heaven; I am trying to get Heaven into men. Nor am I trying to keep men out of Hell, but keep Hell...