Perhaps there will always be Calvinists to emphasize the sovereignty of God, Arminians to emphasize the freedom of man and the work of the Holy Spirit, and Lutherans who place the emphasis on God in Christ and justification by faith in Him." (_L. u. W._ 1901, 154.) In 1905 the _World_ defended the affiliation of the General Synod with the Federal Council, and attacked the _Lutheran_ for criticizing the Federal Council as unionistic. (_L. u. W._ 1906, 32.) Without a word of criticism the _World_, in 1903, published the news: "Rev. Eli Miller, of St. Mark's church, Allegheny, Pa., recently addressed the I. O. O. F. in his church on 'We be brethren'." (_L. u. W._ 1903, 184.) In the same year the _World_ designated the doctrine that every word of the Bible was inspired as an orthodox exaggeration and an astonishing assertion, at the same time declaring that it was time to formulate a theory of inspiration, and that, in this matter, all eyes in America were directed on the Lutheran church. (_L. u. W._ 1904, 39; 1903, 307.) In 1901 the _Lutheran World_ wrote that one must not imagine that man cannot do anything toward his own salvation; that grace must not be viewed as such a supernatural operation which effects a change in the moral nature of man while his own exertions contribute nothing; that man must cooperate with God when the machinery is set into motion. (_L. u. W._ 1901, 234.) The _Lutherische Zionsbote_, the organ of the German Nebraska and the Wartburg Synods, as well as of the German congregations in other District Synods, was much more moderate and conservative than its predecessor, the _Lutherische Kirchenfreund_. MISSOURI'S INFLUENCE.