Show BIOGRAPHERS Of Gm GEL WA ARf C J L Lutherans Pay Tribute to toU JJ U S S. S Patriots and High Officials of Church RICHMOND mCH Va Oct 21 AP AP- AP The puerile attempts of or notoriety seeking scribblers of or the tae day to b be belittle belittle be- be little and defame the reputation of or orth th the Father of or Our Country was most heartily condemned by the Lutheran Brotherhood of or the Lutheran Luth Luth- Lutheran er eran n Church of America at Its concluding concluding concluding con con- session which preceded the theop op opining opening yesterday of the biennial c convention of the tte denom denomination nation The resolution also paid tribute to Thomas Jefferson John Marshall tho tiro Lutheran pastor and patriot General John Peter Gabriel Gabrlel Muhlenburg lenburg and to Robert E E. L Lee e. e while taking o occasion caslon to our allegiance to the great Instrument ment of government which forms the tire very foundation n frame II and fabric of f our American nation and not merely to th the I i constitution itself but to all U the I amendments thereof and to all the laws la and ordinances based thereon there there- I on With respect to George Washington Washing Washing- ton whose private life and personal conduct have engaged tire the attention of recent writers of ot Intimate biographies biographies including Rupert Hughes Hughe and W. W E E. Woodward the resolution resolution resolution tion expressed conviction that the life and character and fame of Washington monumental In grandeur grandeur grandeur gran gran- deur and service shining with ever Increasing luster as the years go goby goby goby by shall shUl live on immortal in the heart of ot every patriotic American KNUBEL REELECTED At the opening session of ot the church convention Dr F. F H II Knubel Knubel Knubel bel of New York was reelected president president pres pres- ident Dr M. M G. G Scherer of ot New NewYork NewYork NewYork York secretary and E E. Clarence Miller treasurer Three commissions reporting to tho ho executive board on movements among churches withheld withheld with with- h held ld unqualified Indorsement of ac- ac activities activities ac ac- of ot the Federal Council of ot Churches the universal Christian conference on life Ilfe and work at Stockholm and the proposed world conference on faith and order Methods and results thus far attained at attained attained at- at rather than the objectives of these Se movements was emphasized The Rev George Drach of BaltimOre Balti- Balti mOre Md 1 d. d secretary of th the churchs church's foreign mission board who wh recently returned from a ten months' months tour in In Asia and Ja Japan an said that despite external evidence of progress progress Japan on the whole was as idolatrous as superstitious as Immoral as any land in the far east This he thought was due in part to the small num number er of ot baptized hap bap confessing Christians out of a 6 population |