Word: synods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearing that the rebellious pastors of the German Evangelical [Lutheran] Church plan to print and circulate privately their unanswered protest to the Reichsführer against practically everything going on in Nazi Germany (TIME, July 27), the Gestapo (secret police) raided Confessional Synod offices, lugged off typewriters, mimeograph and printing machines...
...efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered to junk Dr. Müller and appoint as Reich Bishop the opposition's candidate, gentle, widely beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. Herr Kerrl also offered to let the opposition nominate a majority of the members of the new German Christian Church directorate which he promised...
Mary, Countess of Buccleuch, "at the time of her marriage . . . was but 11 years of age, and Mr. Scott 14. The affair made a considerable noise and became matter of discussion before the provincial Synod of Fife, in 1659. . . . The presbytery was, however, absolved, because the order was grounded upon an act of the General Assembly allowing such marriages in case of necessity for fear of rape...
Reasons for the decline in membership, said Dr. Mudge, were that 9,504 Siamese Presbyterians were transferred from the Synod of New York to the new National Christian Church of Siam; 70,693 Presbyterians were placed on the inactive or suspended list; the rolls were closed for the year before Easter when numerous new members are generally received...
President The Pittsburgh Synod...