¶ In Charleston, W.Va., the Southern Presbyterians (membership: 720,000) dissolved their church’s only Negro synod, Snedecor Memorial Synod. Henceforth, Negro Presbyterian churches in Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama will send their delegates to the white synods in those states.
¶ In Minneapolis, the Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership: 872,000) voted approval of a merger with the other four churches in the American Lutheran Conference (American Lutheran Church, United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheran Free Church). Actual union, warned Church President Johan A. Aasgaard, may take a dozen years more.
¶ In Boston, 7,500 Christian Scientists gathered for their annual meeting, elected Britain’s Lieut. Colonel Robert Ellis Key president of the Mother Church for the coming year. Scientists also heard reports of spiritual healing during the year. Among diseases reported cured by faith: cancer, infantile paralysis, gallstones, asthma, arthritis, nephritis, carious bones, a deformed nose.
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