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el hi & WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1923 . World Lutheran Convention Opens Sunday at Eisenach Editor's note: --The following article telling of the World Lutheran Conven- tion to meet this week in Germany, was submitted by north shore friends of the movement. We feel that it is of suf- ficient interest to all church people to warrant publication in these columns. "For the first time since the days of Martin Luther and the Reformation, 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. Only a General Council by the Church of Rome can bear any comparison to this assem- blage 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 1517 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 pat- 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 Christian World. (The first occurred eight centuries ear- lier when the Greek and Roman Catho- lic Churches separated). "The Lutheran faith was defined 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 the VIII gave authority for forming the English Church. For some years all the dissenters from the Catholic teachings were dubbed "Lutherans," but when Cal- vin and others who differed in some re- spects from the Great Reformer had de- 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 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 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 by the great amounts of money and clothing shipped across the Atlantic into many countries. At one time in 1921, organizations developed by the American National Lutheran Coun- 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 Naticnal Lutheran Council. Side by side with him, but working largely in this country was the late Dr. Lauritz Larsen, whose untimely death last winter at the age of 41 was considered martyrdom. Dr. John A. Morehead is the best known and probably the best loved ILu- theran alive. He has met groups of fellow-believers in every country in Furope, actually following the refugees of South Russia tc 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. "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 his theme. He has produced an address veloped large groups that agreed with that is likely to excite attention far be- them, the term Protestant came into use for those at odds with Rome and the name Lutheran was confined to such as yond his denomination. He bases his principles on Paul's Epistle to 'the Ephesians, and has given practically a adopted the Augsburg Confession and |new application of that portion of the Luther's writings as distinctive of their faith. "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, and laymen who are high up in 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 personally what the Bolshevik persecu- tions did in their respective countries. Dr. Paul of Leipzig, whose life interest centered in the large foreign mission New Testament." Everthing Electrical at our new location Also repairing on all Electrical appliances. 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