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...Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller. who preached from his Dahlem pulpit, too often for his own safety, against the false gods of totalitarianism. He was thin but tanned and in good spirits...
Last week Mount Olivet, now the second biggest church in the Augustana Lutheran Synod, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The congregation had already outgrown its new $50,000 church. Pastor Youngdahl was holding three identical services every Sunday, each overflowing the 465 seats and jamming the church to the doors. To meet the rush, he planned to split $400,000 between a new postwar church building and a Sunday school, youth center and gymnasium...
...Pastor Youngdahl is no sawdust-trail evangelist. Quiet, forceful, hardworking, he preaches ten-to-twelve-minute sermons, studded with human-interest stories which relate Christian truths to modern living. He believes no minister need be a ranter: "I've got something to sell. The greatest thing in the world. Christianity works...
Kurt von Schuschnigg, ex-Chancellor of Austria who persisted in talking back to Hitler, was reported alive in a Nazi concentration camp at Oranienburg. Believed still alive in the dreaded Dachau camp was more outspoken Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller...
...years Fish Ball was kept alive by long-memoried minstrels. Jimmy Savo made the newest recording of the modern version for Decca. But bobby-soxers already knew the recordings of Josh White, Tony Pastor, the Andrews Sisters...