Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1917 — Anti-English Lutherans Called Enemies of U. S. [ARTICLE]

Anti-English Lutherans Called Enemies of U. S.

Chicago Herald, Oct. 30, 1917. Philadelphia, Oct. 29. —Opponents of the movement to substitute English in the Lutheran churches of America in place of German, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, were denounced as enemies of the United States today at the convention of the general council of the Lutheran church. The Rev. Howard E. Snyder, a Lutheran University pastor, now officiating at the University of Wisconsin, declared that “any section of the Lutheran church that works against the effort to establish English services works against America.” In presertting the principles of the movement Dr. Snyder explained it as a part of a well defined propaganda to establish “Americanized Lutheranism” through the medium of the universities.