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Show LUTHERANS WILL SEARCH FOR NEGLECTED FIELDS PHILADELPHIA, Dec I -An immediate im-mediate study of labor and industrial matters and the relation of the ehurch to them war provided ror Tuesday by the executive board of the United Lu-theran Lu-theran church in session here. A separate commission will survey the whole sphere of the church to discover neglected fields which will then be assigned to existing 1 ds or to new igencles. This includes all phases of community and civic in-ni-leins in the solution of which the church may give assistance. A celebration of Luther's historic st:md at Worms, the 4'M.ith arnilver-sary arnilver-sary of which DCCUrs April 21. 1921, was authorized and Initial steps taken tak-en toward adequate plan "Because of the multiplication of complex problems on the IV.clflc coast' a survey was ordered to determine de-termine ihe full responsibility of tho church in Its missionary and educational educa-tional work. Speikers said that adequate ade-quate church facilities In the n"vcr communities on the west coast "would help to stabilize the community life there." |