Word: synods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have voiced his troubles to a more sympathetic ear. The American Lutheran labors unceasingly to assist pastors with their problems of finance, publicity, sermonizing, church architecture and decoration. Though it is an organ of one of the most conservative of U. S. Lutheranism's many sects-the Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States (membership about 800,000) -the magazine is sympathetic with a liturgical movement which currently is exciting Lutherans almost as much as the Oxford Movement excited Anglicans a century ago. Leaders in the liturgical crusade are Pastors Frederick R. Webber of Cleveland, Adolph Wismar of Manhattan...
...Mergers: Free Baptist-Northern Baptist; Presbyterian-Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ; Evangelical Association-United Evangelical; Congregational -Christian; Reformed-Evangelical Synod. Three separate groups formed the United Lutheran Church. In Canada the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches fused in the United Church of Canada...
Though the Synod is Protestant and Adolf Hitler of course is Catholic, Reichsbischof Müller told the churchmen that "Our Chancellor appears to us as a gift from God." Recalling, somewhat left-handedly, Martin Luther's great declaration of the equal freedom and value of all men in the sight of God, Reichsbischof Müller tacked on this Nazi amendment : "Equality before God does not exclude inequality among men, which is also willed by God. For this reason all non-Aryans* must be barred from holding office in the church...
When Reichsbischof Müller finally sat down ten bishops rose and laid before the Synod a protest signed by 2,000 German pastors. "It is not permissible," they declared "that the Church of Christ betray brotherly love and by the rule of force become a kingdom of this world. . . . Church ministration is in the greatest danger. Pastors and church officials are persecuted. . . . We protest . . . especially to the so-called 'Aryan paragraph...
Cowed, the Synod ignored the 2,000 pastors' protest...