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Less hasty were the American Lutherans, meeting in the ultra-plain parish hall of Detroit's Salem's Lutheran Church. Said ruddy, robust Dr. Emmanuel Poppen of Columbus, Ohio, their president: "The church's 1,600 pastors and 2,000 congregations must have an opportunity to be heard." Upshot: the American Lutherans expressed a fervent hope that they and the United Lutherans might both soon be united with the Missouri Synod. They appointed a new commission to continue negotiations...
...Salem, Ore. last week, Charlie McNary formally accepted the Republican nomination in a speech (the first of eight scheduled for the campaign) that was neither weary nor cynical...
...Salem's days began with reveille at 7 a.m. and a raising of the U. S. flag in front of the tabernacle. A "morning watch" from 7:30 to 8 was followed by breakfast, children's classes at 9:30, preaching service at 11, lunch at noon, rest hour, afternoon service at 3, a two-and-a-half-hour recreation period. After supper there followed a final service at 8, taps...
...Salem's is a sociable gathering, with the air of a happy rural community. Placed shrewdly at a time in the Georgia farm calendar when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...
...homespun exhorter, Preacher Anthony told his hearers at Old Salem to rear their children in ways of work ("If I had my way, I'd not raise a boy in Georgia who had not looked at the south end of a mule going north"), urged honesty as the best policy ("When you talk to God, tell Him the truth or keep your mouth shut"), livened his homilies with anecdote ("Up in Johnson County, they named a girl Blasphemy and called her 'Phemy' for short"). One of his prayers that sent "Amens" echoing round the tabernacle...