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...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...
...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...
Cowed, the Synod ignored the 2,000 pastors' protest...