Word: synods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ller summoned the Evangelical National Synod to meet in Berlin, keeping this summons out of the Press. The Synod is virtually hand-picked but some opposition flared. "Eight hundred pastors have already been suspended for opposing the present Church regime!'' cried Church Councilor Meisel, representing Bishop Wurm of Württemberg. "Where is this...
...Legion of Decency pledge in unison. In Chicago the Catholic Daughters of America induced a like number of families to sign. The Philadelphia and Hartford Federations of Churches ap proved the Legion. Without mentioning it by name the Central Conference of American Rabbis commended its aims. The Ohio Presbyterian Synod voted in favor of the Legion. So did the executive commit tee of the Federal Council of Churches, although with characteristic caution it refrained from recommending the pledge to its constituents...
...through his spectacles at the babe and pronounced: "This is the minister we have been praying for.'' Ordained at 23, Covert asked a Minnesota missions superintendent for "the hardest field in the State," was assigned to an industrial suburb of St. Paul. He soon became the youngest synod moderator ever elected in Minnesota. Today Dr. Covert is called a "pastor to pastors" because he has sympathetically heard the woes of thousands of his fellows. Tall and stocky, he dresses well, has twinkling eyes and a stubborn shock of white hair, has spoken before 297 local presbyteries. The Philadelphia...
...Board, sought to transfer his membership from the New Brunswick Presbytery (Princeton), where he was hopelessly alone, to Philadelphia, where he hoped to rally the forces of Fundamentalism. So many opposed his reception that he is "a man without a presbytery" until his status is determined by the Pennsylvania Synod in June...
...Mamaroneck, N. Y., at a conference of the United Lutheran Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...