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14 s THE t ,v» WnPB NEWS. FRIDAY "â„¢ ** 17. 1923 ,, IVbrW Lutheran Convention Opens Sunday at Eisenach Editor's note:â€"The following article telling of the World Lutheran Conven- tion to meet this zveek in Germany, was submitted bv Wilmette friends of the movement. We feel that it is of suf- ficient interest to all church people to warrant publication in these columns. and laymen who are high up m the ad- ministration of the affairs of the church. Many of the men have been in the heart of the warfare that has so recently closed. Dr% Irbe of Latvia Dr Meyer of Russia, Dr. Bursche of Poland, know hesc columns. f Russ;at Dr. Bursche ot Poland, Know ur. jurm ~. rt*"~râ„¢r f , d j u. "For the first time .since the days ££S$ what the Bolshevik persectr-feown anprobably the best £** *£ }e Rcformationrif^ did in their respective countnes theran a veHe ha5 met g P fa of Martin Luther and the the different sections of the Lutheran church are meeting in convention. About 200 delegates are gathering in the town of Eisenach, Germany, on August 19, to deliberate on religious affairs. Unly a General Council by the Church of Rome can bear any comparison to this assem- • Wage either in extent of representation or in the Christian interests involved. "Lutherans get their name from Mar- tin Luther, born 1483, an Augustinian monk, a professor of the University of Wittenberg and pastor of the "Castle Church" of that city, who in 151/ in- augurated the Reformation when he nailed^his "Ninety Five Theses" to the door of the Wittenberg church His views of church and state and his interpretation of the Bible and Chris- tianity, expressed in this document, ex- cited interest, discussion and violent par- tisanship. Applying originally to the single bishopric of Mainz they spread rapidly over all Europe and produced "Protestantism" and the "Evangelical movement, thereby/creating the second great schism in the jChnstian World. (The first occurred eigJft centuries ear- lier when the Greek and Roman Catho- lic Churches separated). Defined Faith "The Lutheran faith was denned in 1530 at a great Diet or Council of the Empire which Emperor Charles V called to meet at Augsburg. A portion of his ^territory accepted the Augsburg Con- fession, as the statement of principles that was read in his presence has been named. But prior to the Diet these principles had been promulgated and had influenced large portions of Europe. What are now Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic Provinces, Holland, and Belgium, with parts of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia were af- fected. Switzerland produced at nearly the same time Zwingli. Somewhat later John Calvin taught at Geneva. England at first resisted the new doctrines, but in the course of thirty years Henry ttie Vill gave authority for forming the English Church. For some year9 alHhe dissenters from the Catholic teachings were dubbed "Lutherans," but when Cal- vin and others who differed in some-re-^ "Spects'Trdhi the Great Reformer had de- veloped large groups that agreed with them, the term Protestant came into use for those at odds with Rome, and the name Lutheran was confined to such as adopted the Augsburg Confession and Luther's writings as distinctive of their faith. Prominent Men There "The most prominent men from each "area" of the church are meeting at Eisenach. They are bishops, superin- intendents, heads of institutions, presi- dents of mission societies, distinguished professors of theology and universities, tions did in tneir respective Dr Paul of Leipzig, whose life interest centered in the large foreign mission fields on the German societies saw rapidly growing Christianization projects in Africa, New Guinea, India and China suddenly and violently interrupted when the fortunes of war transferred the re- mote colonies of the German Empire to other nations. Bishop Ihmels of Saxony faced the arduous labor of reorganizing the church of his country after the pres- ent German republic was established and the former superintendence by the state and support of the church by taxation were altered to suit the new conditions. Norwegian and Danish leaders saw the utter poverty of parishes, schools, dea- coness homes, hospitals and homes for orphans and old people, and gave them aid. Dr. Nathan Soederblom, arch- bishop of Sweden, encouraged the Swed- ish church to receive helpless starved children from Austria and other coun- tries, while he formed contacts with An- glican and Continental churchmen in the interests of evangelical unity. "But America's contribution to charity is distinguished ^^.^JSHS of money and clothing shipped across the Atlantic into many «°™tn5* .^wj time in 1921, organization? ^PgJ* the American National LuthcTanCoun cil were at work in no less than twenty- two countries of Europe At the head of this work was Dr. John A. More head, now Executive Director of the National Lutheran Council. Side by side with him, but working largely n this country was the late Dr. Launtz Larsen, whose untimely death.last winter at the ace of 41 was considered martyrdom. Dr. John A. Morehead is the best fellow-believers in every country m Europe, actually following the refugees of South Russia to Constantinople when the collapse of the Wrangel effort to overthrow the Lenine-Trotzky govern- ment of Russia occurred. He was for a score of years the president of Roanoke College, Va. Then he was sent to France to arrange for the ministry to American soldiers then on the battle- fields. _ „ ... Dr. Knubel To Talk "One of the outstanding addresses that will be heard by the Convention on August 23 has been prepared by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, president of the United Lutheran church in America. Dr. Knubel was assigned the subject of church unity, the prayer of Jesus 'that they may all be one' heading hisr theme. He has produced an address that is likely to excite attention far be- yond his denomination. 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