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...determined Lutherans fresh from Saxony met in a tiny Chicago church. There was one thing about this big new country that they could not abide-U.S. Lutherans were backsliding from the strict, exacting faith of their founder. To combat this trend, the 34 founded the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States...
Last week in Chicago, the Synod ended a ten-day celebration of its centennial, attended by 950 delegates representing nearly 5,000 congregations all over the U.S. Stern fundamentalists, they did nothing more revolutionary than to vote in favor of shortening their official name to the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. On the subject of church unity, the delegates were even more cautious than usual. Though they declared a "sincere desire [for] true scriptural unity" with the middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church,* they rescinded unity measures which had been adopted by the 1938 convention, on the grounds that efforts...
Anxious as ever to protect their young from the doctrinal indifference of the secular world, the delegates resolved that the Synod should aim during the next 25 years to get 50% of its children into parochial schools. Present percentage: 27.8%, in 1,090 parochial schools. For Missouri Synod Lutheran theological students they voted a new $1,500,000 senior college. They also agreed to raise $2,500,000 for world relief...
...suggested, without extravagance, that our modern Western Civilization would probably have been derived from an Irish instead of a Roman embryo either if Colman instead of Wilfrid had won the Synod of Whitby in A.D. 664, or again if Abd-ar-Rahman instead of Charles Martel had won the battle of Tours in A.D. 732."-A. J. Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that...
Firm foundations for Protestantism's new trend were laid at the Oxford and Edinburgh conferences of 1937, which gathered the most comprehensive assemblage of official church representatives in 400 years. In 1939 the three major denominations of U.S. Methodism merged into one church; in 1940 the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church officially united. In 1942 the American and United Lutheran churches recognized a "fellowship of pulpit and altar," stopped just short of organic union. Recently the U.S. Quakers healed their 119-year-old Hicksite-Orthodox schism (TIME, Nov. 18). Negotiations are currently under way between...