A lot of uniting will be required ever to bring the Lutherans of the U. S. into one church, for now they are divided into 17 different denominations. How much unifying is necessary was shown last week when just two of the 17 groups tried to uniteĀand failed.
One of the two groups was the United Lutheran Church (1,523,022 members), which believes that Lutherans are part of Protestantism as a whole and should not hold aloof from their brethren in the larger faith. The other was the American Lutheran Church (515,935 members), not quite so liberal as the United Lutherans (but not...
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