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...SAMUEL TREXLER...
...Reader Trexler, president of the New York Lutheran Ministers' Association, thanks for good words...
Most notable address at the Third World Convention was given by Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler, 58, of Manhattan. Said he: "The church is too much in the care of older men. The church becomes too conservative and is prone to lose the sympathy of the younger generation." Urging that the church outdo Communists in pronouncing against war, Dr. Trexler deftly drew a parallel to make conservatives squirm: "Christ, seeing young Communists helping to cast out the devil of war, would again say, Forbid them not, as he did when John said, Master, we saw one casting out devils...
Sequel to Pity Is Not Enough (TIME, May 29, 1933), The Executioner Waits carries nearer to completion Author Herbst's big portrait of the U. S. from post-Civil War times to the present, takes the Trexler family fortunes from 1918 to 1929. By now the Trexlers are far dispersed from their Pennsylvania homestead: to California, Iowa, New Jersey, Washington. Only one of them has gone up in the world, and for him, as for his capitalist brothers, Author Herbst implies, "the executioner waits." Of the Trexler descendants who are economically on the down grade, most do what they...
...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...