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Show .JEN! LUTHERANS ARE FOREIGNERS Speakers at Great Church Conference Jake Excep-tions Excep-tions to Criticism. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Asserting that "some of our officials at Washington believe be-lieve that to be a Lutheran is to be a foreigner," Rev. Dr. Theodore F. Schmauk of Lebanon, Pa., in an address here today, to-day, at the close of the convention of the United Lutheran church in America, declared de-clared that the church was not only-American only-American but thoroughly patriotic. He was vigorously applauded. Reviewing the history of Lutherans in this country. Dr. Schmauk said that: "While we are most heartily interested in foreign work, we are not a foreign church. "There was an organized Lutheran church Here in Manhattan 1-10 years before be-fore the American revolution ever took place." he continued. "Had it not been tr Benjamin Franklin and the German -Lutherans of Pennsylvania the combina-jr combina-jr Mon of the United States colonies into the f United States would have been impossible. impos-sible. It was the Germans of America standing behind Franklin who enabled the revolutionary war to succeed." It was announced that the acquisition of the Seattle, Wash., Theological seminary semi-nary will serve as an educational center for prospective Lutheran ministers on the Pacific coast, completing a chain of institutions in-stitutions for the teaching of Lutheran-ism Lutheran-ism in the United States and Canada. A resolution to place the church on record as against the liquor traffic was yc'-ir-r-l to a committee on temperance. In the opinion of many delegates, the Augustuna synod of Swedish Lutherans, now un.'iblc to merge with the three synods because of the difference in languages, lan-guages, would soon find its way clear to become a part of I lie United Lutheran Luth-eran church in America. |