In the Churches

In the following places the following churchmen made news last week:

P: In 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.

P: In Philadelphia, the Presbytery voted its support (6740-37) to the official Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, thus flouting (as did the New York Presbytery last fortnight) the new Independent Board which was founded in Philadelphia by Fundamentalists (TIME, April 23).

P: In Manhattan, en route to Italy, arrived Very Rev. Gaetano Cicognani, Roman Catholic archbishop and papal nuncio to Peru. He went to Washington to visit his brother the Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, whom he had not seen in seven years.

P: In Cleveland, met priests, nuns and laymen in a Catholic Conference on Family Life. Said President Henry C. Schumacher: "Strange forms of marriage are being openly advanced. Its indissolubility is more and more being ignored. . . . Continence and self-control are sneered at. Licentious behavior is ever on the increase."

P: In Boston, the 126-year-old Congregational weekly Advance celebrated a change in name from the Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty by launching a barrage against Dr. Hugh Stewart Magill, secretary of the International Council of Religious Education (Sunday Schools of 36 denominations). Pointing to Will Hays as "that rather tawdry little elder of the Presbyterian Church who was taken into camp by Hollywood's sagacious captains," Advance said that Dr. Magill has "rushed to the aid and comfort of the discredited utility interests" by becoming president of American Federation of Utility Investors, Inc. Advance advised him to get out of one job or the other.

P: In Independence, Mo., the Church of Christ (Mormon offshoot) wound up its general conference by unfrocking Elder Samuel Wood, onetime member of the Quorum of Twelve. His offenses: rebellion against church rules, "unChristian" conduct in Quorum session, heretical preaching that the Godhead is One instead of Three.

P: In Hongkong arrived 50 Tibetan Lamas, on their way to Nanking bearing gifts and good news to the pious little Panchen Lama who was ousted in 1924 as Tibet's spiritual ruler. The paunchy Panchen Lama took hope of resuming his old position last December when Death came to Tibet's temporal ruler, the devious Dalai Lama (TIME, Jan. 1, et seq.). He dispatched the 50 Lamas to Lhasa to feel out the situation. Last week they reported all was well. Said the Ahchien Lama, leader of the party: "The people of Tibet are eager for his return and believe it would create stability."

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