Rev. Petter’s 6th and 7th Installments

Rev. Petter still has a fifth fault to find with Synod, 1950, a fault growing out of the fourth. It is this: Synod hierarchically imposed the "Declaration" upon the churches. Here are his words, "The Declaration is a hierarchical imposition upon the churches" (Concordia, for Dec. 21). But of course Rev. Petter's contention raises this question: What then is synod's hierarchy in the matter of the "Declaration"? Wherein does it consist? To understand Rev. Petter's answer we must know what he...