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The Seaforth News, 1956-02-16, Page 7Church Broadcast Heard By Millie z s On a Sunday recently a preacher was thundering over the radio against adultery. While millions listened in their homes, a man was driving along a lonely country road to meet a woman of easy morals. He too was listening, on his car radio. The words he heard turned his lust to fear, then to repent- ance. ' Five minutes later he made a U-turn; five days later he joined the church and began e new Christian life. He wrote the radio program about . it. That Same day, in an adjoin- ing state, another listener put away a shotgun he had loaded to blow out the brains of his divorced wife. He too wrote the program. These letters, and millions of others, are in the files of a re- markable 39 -year-old organiza- tion, the Lutheran Laymen's League, sponsor of the first reg- ular religious program to be broadcast on radio, The pro- gram is. The Lutheran Hour, pioneer of all the church pro- grams on the air today. Behind the League stands one Of America's most contradictory religious groups — a strange blend of fiercely orthodox the- ology and enlightened social philosophy: It is The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Those who know of the Synod's rigid adherence to doctrine find it hard to believe that one of its bodies, the Lutheran Human Relations Association in Amer- ica, recently urged colleges to force fraternities and sororities to eliminate -race and national- ity restrictions. The story of the Missouri Synod goes back to 1839, when the first Lutherans arrived from Germany and settled in Perry County, Missouri. Eight years later, 37 of their leaders, zealous for "The pure and uncorrupted ' epianation of the divine word," reset in Chicago and combined their 12 congregations and 22 ministers in the Missouri Synod. Those early builders of the Synod had missionary ardor in full measure, but even they could not have foreseen today's 6,000 churches and more than 3,000,000 members; or that the Synod would become a leader DACE - LIFT — This smiling water tank hasn't always look- ed so cheerful. In fact, it look- ed so dull and dreary perched atop the roof of a Chicago publishing company that com- pany officials decided to give it new face. They hired sign painters to put this serene, smiling face on it, in maroon, blue and white. in the use of a yet unborn medi- um of Communication.. It was the 85,000 member Lu- theran Laymen's League, com- posed largely of shrewd Mid- west businessmen and farmers, that helped the Synod' become the second largest Lutheran body in the country. In 1930, perhaps the most important year of the Synod's history; the Lea- gue started The Lutheran Hour over a 32 -station network, "to bring Christ to a troubled world." The Hour's first speaker, Dr. Walter A. Maier, urged listeners to "cultivate a faith built on the sure promises of the Bible, net on hoarded wealth and guilt - edged investments." Neverthe- less, it was lack of wealth and investments, "guilt -edged" Or otherwise, that almost starved The Lutheran Hour in its cradle. Radio time was monstrously ex- pensive, and in 1931 the pro- gram went off the air. But the Lutherans had faith in the program and by 1935 they had raised enough money to get it back on the air, Almost immediately, it be- came clear that they had been right in thinking the depression - ridden public was in the mood for a hard_hitting religious pro- gram. ,Four years later it went international; and today The Lutheran Hour is heard over 1,250 stations, in 56 languages and in 65 countries. More than 20,000,000 listen in each week, and the yearly letter count stands at well over half a mil- lion Many of the listeners are be- hind the Iron Curtain. Recently, a speaker ventured the hope that listeners would say "Arnen" to a declaration of faith in God. During the next few days, hun- dreds of postcards arrived from behind the Curtain. All were unsigned, naturally, and bore just one word: "Amen." Much of the program's suc- cess in its early years is attri- buted to Dr. Maier, a flamboy- ant man of God who apparently never really believed he could be heard on the air unless he shouted at the top of his lungs. Nor was he one to spare the sinners. He never minced words. In the broadcasting booth he would strip to his un- dershirt for greater comfort, car- ing not for dignity where the work of God was concerned. At his death in 1950, even unbe- lievers who had smarted under his words had come to respect him as a devoted and selfless servant of Christ. To millions, Dr. Maier was The Lutheran Hour: With his passing, the program seemed to lose much of its impact, al- though' the various guest speak- ers who followed were out- standing ministers. Then last September a new and vibrant voice was heard, and word spread that The Lu- theran Hour was back on the rails. The voice belonged to Dr. Oswald Hoffmann, an unusual combination of good-natured, relaxed extrovert, scholar and passionate man of the Lord. Dr. Hoffmann is more than six feet tall and heavy -set but he moves swiftly and easily. His broad face and high fore- head are reminiscent of the. late author, Thomas Wolfe. Also like Wolfe, he possesses great phy- sical vigor which conies over the airwaves 'with dramatic ef- fect. Yet he manages to avoid histrionics, and he attracts the educated and sophisticated as well as the average listener. At 42, Dr. Hoffmann has a highly successful record as director of public relations for the Missouri Synod, a job he retains. The son of a Nebraska min- ister, Dr, Hoffmann holds de- grees in the arts and divinity. and was ordained in 1939. For seven years he taught Latin and , '\ a`s`, s 1 za Oti s FOR ISRAELI HALL OF FAME — .Former President Harry S. Truman stands beside the unfinished bust of him that will he placed when completed in the Ben Yehuda lIatianal Museum in Jerusalem. THRIE-WAY INSPIRATION — Courage of Sanford Shaleen and two devices developed by fellow engineers of Minneapolis Honeywell form a three-way picture of inspiration. Stricken with polio three years ago, Shaleen can move only his head and feet. A movement of his head actuates device developed by, his com- rades which turns pages of technical paper on easel at right. Touch of his toe on an employe -developed switch at foot of bed energizes dictating machine and Shaleen records through micro- phone near his head. With aid of the machines he completes review of a vast amount of material each week. Greek, gradually becoming a key figure in Missouri Synod counsels. When The Lutheran Hour situation became crucial, Dr. Hoffmann got the call. Since his radio ministry be- gan, Dr. Hoffmann has had to spend much of his time away from his wife Marcia and their four children, Peter, Paul, John, and Katherine Ann who was born three weeks before he took over the program. Dr. Hoffmann is - fiercely de- termined that the Synod shall get the last penny of value from a radio program that costs $1,300,000 a year. And "value" to Dr. Hoffmann lies in the Biblical injunction to "preach the Gospel to every creature." About half the program's bud- get goes for foreign broadcasts. For most, transcriptions are made in this country by multi.. lingual ministers or United Na- tions translators. The results have been excellent. Japanese stations, for instance, draw 200,- 000 letters yearly, and 90 per cent of the writers enroll in the Bible Correspondence Course offered during the program. Radio Goa receives letters in such Indian regional languages as Gujarati, Kanarese, Marathi, Punjabi, Pushtu, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Radio Ceylon has re- ceived mail from Iceland, half a world away. In the LI, S., The Lutheran Hour usually originates from Station KFUO on the campus of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The Mutual network and a number of independent stations carry it at varying hours every Sunday to every state of the Union, In Texas, 56 stations use the program; North Carolina is runner-up with 36. A substantial portion of the mail from listeners comes to the League's. St. Louis office where 75 full-time employees are kept busy handling it and other Lu- theran Hour business. Many of the letters seek personal advice; and these are either answered from the St. Louis office by clergymen with counselling ex- perience or the writer is refer- red to a Synod pastor in his area. The Missouri Synod has not neglected the possibilities of TV either. Four years ago, This Is Tlee Life, the serialized story of the devoutly Lutheran Fisher Family, had its premiere. To- day it is seen weekly on more than 250 stations. Critics have called This Is The Life a religious soap -opera. But 10,000,000 people watch and love the Fishers as they manage to get involved, directly or indi- rectly, with an airplane crash, a fixed basketball game, a case of amnesia, an automobile acci- dent, and various other difficul- ties and disasters. ' Incidentally, for a strictly non -gambling group, the Synod overlooks no bets. One of its members, Mrs. Carl Deitemeyer of Lincoln, Nebraska, was named "Mrs. America of 1956" Worried Lutherans were, of course, in- formed that a bathing suit ap- pearance was not involved in the Mrs, America competition. This Is The Life has one great advantage over The Lutheran Hour—it gets free time as a TV "public service" program. 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