Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1920-09-17
LUTHERAN CHURCH
CONVENTION,

What attitude shall the United
Lutheran Church take toward
other Lutheran aui other church.
bodies and toward general church
movements ? This question
promises to be the most discuss
ed topic at the second biennial
convention of the United Luth-
eran Church opening in Luth-
eran Grace Memorial Church,
Washington, D. c., October 10,
1920.
The President, DR.. F. H.
knubel will touch on the ques-
tion in his Convention sermon
and the Executive Board in its
report has an outline of princi-
piles and policies involved. By
special arrangements the Boards
of Home and Foreign Missions
and education are now associat-
ed with other Church Boards in
interdenominat ional organiza-
tions. Will this practice be ex-
tended or eliminated is the prob
lem for the five hundred and
fifty delegates to decide.
The United Lutheran Church
was formed in 1918 by the merg-
ing of three other bodies, the
General Council, General Synod
and the United Synod South.
Numerically it is the largest
Lutheran body in America.
Statistics show baptized mem
bership Of l 092, 446 and con-
! firmed or full membership of
Euearly 10000 1t is COM
posed Of constituent synods
reaching into practically every
state and having Churches III
Canada and the West Indies. It's
educational system comprises II
seminaries, 20 colleges, 6 acade.
mics, The total value is S12,-
100000. Its foreign mission
work is carried on in India,
Africa, Japan and in severa.
South American states. at ar
annual expenditure of 500, 900
| The total value of church prop.
ertv and endowment is SIS,
| 100000. The United Lutheran
| Church through its synodica
| constituents is the oldest Luth
eran body III Am erica. 1t dates
| back to the time when the Dutcl
| LutlIerans settled in New Yorl
| in 1923, and the Swedish Luth
Grams settled on the Delaware il
1888, and the Salzburgers came
to Georgia and the Carolinas.
| The first convention of til,
United Lutheran Church wa
held in New York City in No
vember Of 1918. 1t was pri
marllY a Convention or organl
cation and anna gamation. Tina
time boards and committees ar,
merged, thus bringing abou
much economy in men and none.
. and permitting the church t
enter new fields on a large scale
1t was also a convention for ad
; justments and for leaders to be
!, come acquainted with one all
other.
The conyen ton III Washing
ton III October will be chiefly
, constructive convention, al
though certain read justments il
; view of the two wears experieuc
, will likely be made. The chic
interest will center around tn
progressive measures taken 70
larger work. When the Unite'
Lutheran Church was organize,
two years ago it lmmediatel,
became one of the strong out
standing church bodies o
America and during the war it
!. ! activities in connection will
other Lutheran bodies EXTENDED
to all the camps and naval base
and to France. At the close O
the war, relief work was under.
taken in France, Czecho, La
voki, Poland A AUSTRIA, Hungary
Germany and Finland.
The officials of the Unitet
Lutheran Church are, DR.. F. H
knubel of New York, President
DR.. M. G. G.. Scherer of New
York, Secretary, Mr.. E. Clarenc,
Miller, of Bioren & Co., Bank
ers, Philadelphia, Treasurer.