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Solid and sober as the great Martin Luther looked is U. S. Lutheranism, the intensely individualist faith of many a farmer and small-towner, many a Scandinavian and German-American who still speaks the European tongue of his forebears. Because of the sect's diffuse organization, there is as yet no great single U. S. Lutheran Church whose head might speak with the authority of a Catholic archbishop. Biggest Lutheran body in U. S. is the United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches...
...founder of a new sect digs up his wife's grave, is bitten by a copperhead. His corpse is then arrested by the constable on the charge of "Public Indecency...
...they have their saints. John Reed, dead at 33, buried by the Kremlin wall close to the tomb of Russia's god, is already canonized. To such Harvard classmates as Red-fearing Hamilton Fish Jr., Reed was a traitor to his class. But even within the revolutionary sect his sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair's judgment hits nearest the mark...
...Most of the U. S. heard about his will. In it eccentric Stephen Girard, whose only child died in infancy, set aside some $6,000,000, the bulk of his fortune, for a college for "poor male white orphan children," prescribed that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor." When Stephen Girard's French kin tried to break the will, their advocate, Daniel Webster, carried the plea...
Though Janitor Bibb's dust also was given the final blessing of the African Methodist Church, he was a member of neither sect which honored his memory. Reverently Rabbi Isserman declared: "His psalms were his services faithfully rendered and his prayers were his scrupulous conscientiousness. . . . There was almost an ecstatic rhythm in his dusting of the pews...