Evening star., 1946-10-06
D. {. Delegate,
Are Nominated
By Lutherans
Hickman, Grorud, =
Tabor Among Those
Named for Offices
By cospor Names
Stor Staff corrsspondsnt

By cospor Names
Siar stuff Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Oct. 5.-Washine
ton clergymen and laymen presel
at the 18th biennial convention I
the United Lutheran Church
America were announced as nom
nees for important church boar
posts today as the gathering RI
elected DR.. Franklin Clark Fry {
New Rochelle, N. Y, to head tf
denomination for the coming tw
years. The board elections will
held Monday.
Among the District men nomi
mated for board positions were tn
Rev. l.. Ralph Tabor, pastor {
Luther Place Memorial Church, D
for reelection to the Parish an
Church School Board, and Thoma
P. Hickman, vice president of tn
City Bank Of Washington, candi
date for reelection to the Executiv
Committee of the Laymen's Move
ment for Stewardship. Alher
Grorud of Silver Spring, Md, coun
selor for the Senate Committee o.
Indian Offairs, was selected as on
Of the candidates for the committee
Other local men nominated in
cluded the Rev. Carl r. Simon, pas
tor of Keller Memorial Church, an,
Fred w. Koneman Of the Com
merce Department Board of Pub
lications. Miss Frances Dysingel
executive director of the Distric
Lutheran Inner Mission Society, wa
nominated for the Board of Dea
coness Work. Mrs. j. L. Almond
wife of Representative Almond
Democrat, of Virginia, who lives a
the Kennedy-Warren Hotel, wa,
among those nominated for tn,
Board of Foreign Missions.
McGrory q Vice President.
A District resident, Martin A. Nc.
Grory, was elected vice president
of the Brotherhood of the United
Lutheran Church at the organiza
tion's closing meeting of its biennia
convention at Erie, Pa. A member
of Atonement Lutheran Church anc
treasurer of the District Lutheran
Inner Mission Society, Mr.. McGrory
lives at 800 Decatur street NV.
zeb B. Trexler of Concord, N. C..
was elected president of the broth
erhood organization.
DR.. Fry was elected president fol
his second term on the second bal
lot, receiving 446 Of the 471 votes
cast He succeeded the late DR.
Frederick H. Knubel, who served for
26 years as head Of the church body
two years ago.
DR.. Eppling Reinartz, pastor ot
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church OF
New. York. was elected secretary to
succeed DR.. Walter II. Greever OF
Columbia, S. C. DR.. Greever is re-
firing after IA years as secretary,
A total of 465 delegates represent
ing 4.086 congregations In the United
States, Canada, Alaska and Hawaii
and / SOC, 1000 church members were
at the convention. Included In the
delegates were representatives. from
Japan, China, India, South Amer
lea, the West Indies and Africa. Mr..
Tabor is the Washington clerical
delegate and Mr.. Hickman the lay
men delegate.
Calls for Heightened Energy.
In a speech preceding his re-
election, Dr. Fry declared the "lan-
quid tempo" of the church must be
changed If it is to arrive in time
for the rescue of humanity. Cur
rent Christian action, he continued,
is too feeble, dangerously laggard
and half asleep" The pace of re-
ligion must be speeded up to match
that Of the world today, he warned
adding unless 1t strides out with
a vigorously heightened energy soon
unless 1t lenses its muscles at once
with a stern yet happy determine
ton that has not been approached
in our lifetime until now, the church
will not arrive for the rescue"
Saying that the principles Of
Christianity were sound and right
and require no change" DR.. Fry
called for a vigorous increase ir
missionary work in India, China
Japan, Africa and South America.
Lutherans of the world, many
sadly stricken in former belligerent
nations, are looking to America as
their last recourse, DR.. Fry said
adding "that is why Lutheran World
Action dare not fail" He also urged
a widening of the educational pro-
gram of the church as the most
effective medium for instilling rev.
erence and uprightness."
Open With Communion.
DR.. Fry was one of six clergymen
to officiate at a communion service
opening the convention in Cleve-
land Music Hall. Those participat-
ing with him were DR.. Pleasant D.
Brown OF Salisbury, N. c., conven-
tion chaplain: DR.. Knubel, the Rev
George F. Hart of Jacksonville, Fla.
president of the Florida Synod; the
Rev. Ivan o. Miller of Detroit, presi-
dent of the Michigan Synod, and DR.
F. M. Hanes of Elkhart, Ind, presi-
dent of the Indiana Synod.
The executive board in it's report
recommended that the church
spend $286,172.32 for the coming
year. Among the items recommend
ed was a provision of $4,000 for
the Board of Foreign Missions. to
be spent for the rehabilitation of
missions in China and Japan. A
sum of $4,000 was aliocated to the
Board Of Foreign Missions for the
disaster relief fund and q total of
$56,860 was set aside for the Board
OF Education. DR.. Oscar F. Black
welder, pastor of Reformation Lu-
theran Church here, is a member
of the executive board.
"A special grant of $4,000 to the
American Bible Society to supple
ment the regular annual contribu-
ton of the United Lutheran Church
to this project was recommended
by the executive board.
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