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...team of surgeons at Chicago's Augustana Hospital has been using auto-transfusion for more than two years, with excellent results and no ill effects. The possibility was discussed as long ago as 1883. Autotransfusion remains a relative rarity, says a leading transfusion authority, because "too many doctors still don't know about it. Also, some are lazy-they won't take the time and trouble to explain the advantages to the patient, and get him into the hospital to have the blood drawn. But autotransfusion saves the patient's money, and may save his life...
...ministry of mobility," he says. "I can most successfully meet these people without the traditional institutional forms." In Denver, pastors are worrying about how to reach families living in the anonymity of tall new apartment buildings. "They are sealed in their apartments," says Dr. Paul Noren, the Augustana Lutheran pastor who is president of the Denver Area Council of Churches, "but they are a responsibility of the church." To reach these hidden Christians, many Denver churches play down Sunday worship in favor of midday services during the week...
...Detroit's grandiose Cobo Hall this week, four Lutheran bodies-the United Lutheran Church in America (2.500,000), the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (630,000), the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (36,000) and the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (25,000)-will simultaneously hold their final conventions as separate bodies. Next morning, the 6,000 delegates and visitors will go back to Cobo Hall for the first Holy Communion service as mem bers of the nation's newest and largest Lutheran body: the Lutheran Church in America. "Unless and until Lutherans are sitting on the same side...
Much of the discussion centered on two papers. Dr. Conrad Bergendoff, president of Augustana College (Lutheran), warned that the unity represented by the World Council of Churches "is still marginal and peripheral," and will remain so until Christianity can be "expressed in common confessions of faith." Presbyterian John Leith, of Richmond's Union Theological Seminary, countered by suggesting that bold doctrinal talks might help church leaders toward unity by getting the focus off the superficial topic of organizational structure. "We are called upon to make serious decisions in the realm of theology and polity," he said...
...Approved a merger with three other Lutheran denominations-the 605,000-member Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized in 1860 by U.S. citizens of Swedish birth or ancestry; the 36,000-member Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod), founded in 1890; the 24,000-member American Evangelical Lutheran Church organized by Danish missionaries in 1872. The move to merge, said United Lutheran President Franklin Clark Fry, was a "historic and momentous decision...