THEOLOGIAN WHO DIED ON MONDAY IN FOREIGN LAND, REV. DR. JACOB A. CLUTZ, member of the seminary staff, one of four United States delegates in the Universal Christian Conference of On Life and Work in Stockholm, Sweden, and who was injured when struck by an automobile truck in Stockholm, August 21, died Monday night, according to a cablegram received here from his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, who accompanied his father abroad.
REV. DR. JACOB A. CLUTZ DIES IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, MONDAY NIGHT; FRACTURES SKULL IN AUTO MISHAP
PROMINENT THEOLOGIAN, ONE OF FOUR DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE IN SWEDISH CAPITAL, SUCCUMBS; BODY TO BE RETURNED TO GETTYSBURG FOR BURIAL; WAS PROMINENT IN CHURCH WORK.
The Rev. Dr. Jacob A. Clutz, professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, here, died in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday night. He was in his seventy-eighth year.
"Father died last night," was the message of a cablegram received by relatives here this morning from Dr. Frank Clutz, professor at Gettysburg College, son of the veteran theologian, who had accompanied his father to Stockhom to attend the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work.
Doctor Clutz's death is believed to have been the direct result of the injury he received on August 24, in the Swedish Capital. In company with another delegate to the conference, which was held from August 19 to 30. Doctor Clutz was about to cross the street, when he was struck and felled by the rear end of a large delivery truck.
The end of the truck swinging around the corner, struck the veteran theologian, knocking him to the ground. In a semi conscious condition he was taken to a hospital, where an examination disclosed he was suffering from a slight fracture of the skull.
INJURIES NOT THOUGHT SERIOUS
His injuries were not considered serious by physicians or by his son, who cabled home a day after the accident saying his father's injuries were not serious. In a letter from the injured man's son a few days later, it was stated that physicians had advised his father to remain in bed for a week, and then to stay at the hospital another week.
According to calculations by relatives here, Doctor Clutz would have been discharged from the hospital on Monday, the day on which his death occurred. The man accompanying Doctor Clutz when knocked down by the motor truck escaped injury it was said in the letter from Dr. Frank Clutz.
In a letter received recently from Dr. Frank Clutz, it was related that his father was in seemingly good health, and rather chafed that he was compelled to remain in the hospital.
Doctor Clutz and his son sailed Tuesday, August 4, from New York City on board the steamship Bergensfjord for Stockholm, Sweden. They embarked for Bergen, Norway, and two interesting letters, detailing life aboard the steamer and the trip overland from Bergen to Stockholm, have been published in the Times. Both letters were written about a week before the accident, which resulted in the theologian's death.
CONFERENCE ENDED AUGUST 30
The conference on "Life and Work", which attracted about
150 delegates from the United States, four of them from the United Lutheran Church in America, was opened on August 19, and closed on August 30. In a letter to relatives here, the veteran teacher, author, college president and noted church figure, recounted the pomp accompanying the opening of the conference. He told of the pageantry accompanying the appearance of the King of Sweden on the floor of the conference.
From Bergen, Norway, where Doctor Clutz and his son landed, they went to Oslo, formerly Christiana, the capital of Norway, and thence Stockholm.
The conference to which Doctor Clutz had gone was first projected in 1919 at a meeting of the international committee of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the churches, held in The Hague. This was the first international conference of religious workers and leaders since the armistice and more than 500 delegates from all parts of the world and representing every domination and faith, except the Roman Catholic, were in attendance.
ONE OF FOUR DELEGATES
Doctor Clutz was signally honored by being chosen one of the four delegates from the United Lutheran Church in America to the conference. He was to have made a special study of the topic "The Church and International Relations," and reported at the next meeting of the United Lutheran Church.
The other three delegates from the Lutheran denominations this country attending the conference were Dr. E.E. Pfattescher, Reading: J.B. Franke, For Wayne, Indiana, and Dr. N.G.G. Scherer, secretary of the United Lutheran Church.
After the conference, Doctor Clutz and his son were to have traveled for several weeks through Continental Europe, visitng Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France. They had expected to sail from Cherbourg, France, September 19, reaching here about October 1.
RETIRED FROM ACTIVE WORK
Before sailing for Stockholm, Doctor Clutz announced he resignation as professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Seminary effective September, 1926. He had planned to teach one year more, thereby rounding out seventeen years as a member of the faculty of the local theological institution.
Doctor Clutz was born in Adams county on January 5, 1848, and was a veteran of the Civil War. For a number of years, he served as chaplain and commander of the Corporal Skelly post of the Grand Army of the Republic here.
He was a son of the late Henry and Hannah (Buffington) Clutz. After graduating from Gettysburg College with the class of 1869, he dedicated his life to the ministry by entering the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, graduating with the class of 1872.
He served pastorates at Newville, Cumberland county, his first call after graduating from the seminary, later preaching at Baltimore, Eat Norway, Kansas, and St. James Lutheran church, Gettysburg.
After graduating from seminary, Doctor Clutz was married to Miss Liberty Hollinger, of Gettysburg, and this union were born three sons and two daughters.
From 1883, when he closed his pastorate at the Lutheran church in Baltimore, until 1889, Doctor Clutz was general secretary of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions.
LED KANSAS COLLEGE
Called to Midland College, Atchison, Kansas, to become its president in 1883, the veteran theologian served as head of that school until 1904, becoming one of the best known and most universally liked college presidents of the Middle West. While he was president of Midland College, he taught homiletics and Christian ethics at the Western Theological Seminary, located at Atchison.
In 1904, he was given a call to become pastor of St. James Lutheran church, here, which he accepted, at the same time teaching practical theology at the seminary. For five years he supplied the pulpit at St. James Lutheran church, endearing himself to the congregation which grew by leaps and bounds during his ministry.
In 1909, he relinquished the pastorate of the local church to take the chair of practical theology and homiletics at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, moving to the large home on the beautiful campus of the seminary.
Doctor Clutz was a favorite with his associates on the teaching staff of the seminary, and all joined today in paying tribute in "the exemplary life and unceasing efforts in the training of young men for ministry which Doctor Clutz embodied."
Doctor Clutz also was prominent in the office of the higher governing of the Lutheran denomination in the United States, being a member of the ways and means for the unification of the Lutheran church in the United States, which later resolved itself into the United Lutheran Church of America.
Besides being general secretary of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions of the General Synod of the Lutheran church from 1872 to 1883, Doctor Clutz was secretary of the Lutheran Board of Foreign Missions, 1977 to 1883: president of the Lutheran General Synod, Lebanon, 1891; treasurer of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions, General Synod, 1907 to 1913, later being president of that synod from 1913-1915.
He was a member of the committee on ways and means to perfect a merger of the Lutheran General Synod, the General Council and the United Synod of the South.
After formation of the United Lutheran Church in America, which embraced all branches of the Lutheran denomination, Doctor Clutz, who was active in bringing about the consolidation of the many minor Synods of the town of the church under the one great governing body, was named a member of the executive committee, on which he served from 1918 until 1921, when he was automatically retired, being unable to serve longer.
Since 1908, Doctor Clutz was a trustee of Gettysburg Collegem and this morning Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of that institution, spoke very highly of the veteran theologian, extalling his many admirable qualities.
Doctor Clutz held several degrees, Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Divinity from Gettysburg College, and Doctor of Laws, which he received from Midland College, Freemont, Nebraska, in 1920.
PROLIFIC WRITER
Doctor Clutz was a prolific writer. He was one of the editors,as well as a contributor of Lutheran Quarterly, the official organ of the Lutheran church. He was a contributor to other church papers and religious works, and had planned to write a book after leaving the faculty and seminary next September.
Doctor Clutz also was recognized by election and appointment to other important commissions and committees of the United Lutheran Church. At a meeting of the executive board last December, he was elected as one of a committee if ten for the study of theological education in the United Lutheran Church, and at the first meeting of the commission in New York city, February 8, this year, he was elected secretary of the commission.
BURY DR. CLUTZ SATURDAY; BODY ARRIVES FRIDAY
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Services Scheduled For Three O'clock In Christ Lutheran Church
All that is mortal of the Rev. Dr. Jacob A. Clutz, professor at the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, and prominently identified with thee United Lutheran Church in America, will arrive in New York City on Friday
The body of the late theologian, where suddenly death on a train near Stockholm, Sweden, almost three weeks ago, came as a shock to his relatives and hosts of friends in Gettysburg and elsewhere, is accompanied by his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, professor at Gettysburg College, who had gone with his father to Stockholm, where he was one of four official delegates from the United Lutheran Church in America to the Universal Christian Conference on Like and Work.
John Clutz, Broadway, son of Dr. Frank Clutz, has gone to New York City to meet the steamship Stavangersfjord, aboard which his father and the remains of his grandfather are being brought to this country from abroad. The ship is one day late, being scheduled to arrive on Thursday. Its first port of call was Halifax, coming from there to New York City, its destination.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
Complete arrangements for the funeral of the late Doctor Clutz, who was a minister, college president, and teacher at different time in his life, were announced today for relatives in charge.
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock has been set as the time for the services, which will be held from Christ Lutheran Church, the Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner, pastor, Doctor Wagner will preach the funeral sermon.
The Rev. Dr. J.A. Singmaster, president of the seminary here, under whom Doctor Clutz taught, will have the reading of the scripture lesson; Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, of which the deceased was a trustee, will read a favorite hymn and Dr. H.E. Jacobs, president of Mount Airy Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, and Dr. A.S. Hartman, Baltimore, a brother-in-law of Doctor Clutz will give prayers.
From 2:15 o'clock, Saturday afternoon until 3 o'clock, the hour of the services, the body of Doctor Clutz will lie in state at Christ Lutheran Church. Private internment will take place in Evergreen cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the seminary faculty. They will be Dr. Singmaster, Dr. Herbert C. Alleman, Dr. A.R. Wentz, Dr. H. Hadwin Fischer and Dr. M. Coover.
Active pallbearers will be the Rev. Earl J. Bowman, pastor of St. James Lutheran Church, of which Doctor Clutz was a one-time pastor; Carl Simon, president of the seminary student body, and four of the deceased theologian's oldest grandsons, John and Paul Clutz, Gettysburg; Frank Clutz, Troy, Kansas, and Robert Peters, New Cumberland.
COLLEGE MOURNS LOSS OF DR. CLUTZ
Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, in a statement prepared this morning following receipt of the word of the death of Rev. J.A. Clutz, expressed the regret of college officials over the loss of the noted theologian;
Gettysburg College learns with deepest regret of the death of the Rev. Professor J.A. Clutz, D.D., L.L., D. Dr. Clutz has been a member of the board of trustees of Gettysburg College since 1908. The confidence of the board was expressed in Doctor Clutz's election some years ago to the executive committee.
As President of Gettysburg College, I want to express my keen appreciation of the long and distinguished service rendered our institution by Doctor Clutz. He was always deeply interested in everything pertaining to the work of the college.
Gettysburg College deeply mourns, with the loved one of Doctor Clutz, the sudden passing of one of the outstanding men in the Lutheran Church.
EXPRESSIONS OF ESTEEM AND SORROW ARE VOICED ON PASSING OF REV. J.A. CLUTZ; DIES OF HEART DISEASE ABOARD TRAIN
From person in every walk and station of life today flowed expressions of esteem and sorrow on the passing of the Rev. Jacob A. Clutz, news of whose death was received by relatives here Tuesday.
The hig regard in which Doctor Clutz was held was voiced by everyone, everywhere, in homes of the rich as well as those not so fortunate. Comments on the exemplary character of his life were on the tongue of all, for he was known from the urchin in the street to those who held high positions in life.
His ready smile, cheerful disposition and spontaneous good will apparently had won him a high place in the hearts and minds of Gettysburg. His ability as a speaker was a subject for conversation in many places
FORCEFUL SPEAKER
It is recalled that one of the finest expositions he had spoken inn recent years was the baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Christ Lutheran Church in June. Its message not only impressed upon the young men about to enter their chosen profession but also upon the others in the church who listened to his utterances.
He was known as a forceful speaker, and members of St. James Lutheran church recalling his pastorate there, told of the vigor with which he filled the pulpit, and his untiring energy in advancing the work of the church and its several departments.
Although nearing his 78th Birthday, which would have come on next January 4, Doctor Clutz liked to think of himself as "just a young man," and took anyone to task for designating him as :aged Man." "A man like a woman," he said shortly before sailing for Europe, "is only as old as he feels. I am feeling young in spirit although my years belie it."
DIES ON TRAIN
Information received today from Stockholm, Sweden, in the effect that the venerable theologian died on a train one hour out of the Swedish capital, Monday night. The cause of death was given as heart disease. Doctor Clutz was struck by the rear end of a motor truck, while standing on a street corner in Stockholm, the evening of August 24. He was accompanied at the time by M.G.G. Sherer, general secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, who escaped unhurt.
The Gettysburg theologian was knocked to the pavement, suffering a slight fracture of the skull and a chest injury. Physicians at a hospital where he was taken said he would have to remain in bed a week, and then spend another week at the hospital. It is believed he was discharged as a patient from the hospital over the week-end, and that he and his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, had taken up their homeward journey, foregoing the tour of Continental Europe, whic was planned.
ON SEMINARY FACULTY
Since 1909, Doctor Clutz was a member of the faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, He also was prominently identified with the United Lutheran Church in America, which he had gone to Sweden to represent at the Universal Christian Conference, August 19 to 30.
From 1883 until 1904, when he took up his duties as pastor of St. James Lutheran church here, Doctor Clutz was president of Midland College, Atheison, Kansas, at the same time teaching in the Western Theological Seminary.
According to information received today, Dr. Frank Clutz will next Tuesday from Ohio, formerly Christiana, Norway, with the body of his father. He will sail aboard the steamship Stavangerfjord, which is due in New York City, September 24.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 9 1925
REV. DR. JACOB A. CLUTZ DIES IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, MONDAY NIGHT; FRACTURES SKULL IN AUTO MISHAP
PROMINENT THEOLOGIAN, ONE OF FOUR DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE IN SWEDISH CAPITAL, SUCCUMBS; BODY TO BE RETURNED TO GETTYSBURG FOR BURIAL; WAS PROMINENT IN CHURCH WORK.
The Rev. Dr. Jacob A. Clutz, professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, here, died in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday night. He was in his seventy-eighth year.
"Father died last night," was the message of a cablegram received by relatives here this morning from Dr. Frank Clutz, professor at Gettysburg College, son of the veteran theologian, who had accompanied his father to Stockhom to attend the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work.
Doctor Clutz's death is believed to have been the direct result of the injury he received on August 24, in the Swedish Capital. In company with another delegate to the conference, which was held from August 19 to 30. Doctor Clutz was about to cross the street, when he was struck and felled by the rear end of a large delivery truck.
The end of the truck swinging around the corner, struck the veteran theologian, knocking him to the ground. In a semi conscious condition he was taken to a hospital, where an examination disclosed he was suffering from a slight fracture of the skull.
INJURIES NOT THOUGHT SERIOUS
His injuries were not considered serious by physicians or by his son, who cabled home a day after the accident saying his father's injuries were not serious. In a letter from the injured man's son a few days later, it was stated that physicians had advised his father to remain in bed for a week, and then to stay at the hospital another week.
According to calculations by relatives here, Doctor Clutz would have been discharged from the hospital on Monday, the day on which his death occurred. The man accompanying Doctor Clutz when knocked down by the motor truck escaped injury it was said in the letter from Dr. Frank Clutz.
In a letter received recently from Dr. Frank Clutz, it was related that his father was in seemingly good health, and rather chafed that he was compelled to remain in the hospital.
Doctor Clutz and his son sailed Tuesday, August 4, from New York City on board the steamship Bergensfjord for Stockholm, Sweden. They embarked for Bergen, Norway, and two interesting letters, detailing life aboard the steamer and the trip overland from Bergen to Stockholm, have been published in the Times. Both letters were written about a week before the accident, which resulted in the theologian's death.
CONFERENCE ENDED AUGUST 30
The conference on "Life and Work", which attracted about
150 delegates from the United States, four of them from the United Lutheran Church in America, was opened on August 19, and closed on August 30. In a letter to relatives here, the veteran teacher, author, college president and noted church figure, recounted the pomp accompanying the opening of the conference. He told of the pageantry accompanying the appearance of the King of Sweden on the floor of the conference.
From Bergen, Norway, where Doctor Clutz and his son landed, they went to Oslo, formerly Christiana, the capital of Norway, and thence Stockholm.
The conference to which Doctor Clutz had gone was first projected in 1919 at a meeting of the international committee of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the churches, held in The Hague. This was the first international conference of religious workers and leaders since the armistice and more than 500 delegates from all parts of the world and representing every domination and faith, except the Roman Catholic, were in attendance.
ONE OF FOUR DELEGATES
Doctor Clutz was signally honored by being chosen one of the four delegates from the United Lutheran Church in America to the conference. He was to have made a special study of the topic "The Church and International Relations," and reported at the next meeting of the United Lutheran Church.
The other three delegates from the Lutheran denominations this country attending the conference were Dr. E.E. Pfattescher, Reading: J.B. Franke, For Wayne, Indiana, and Dr. N.G.G. Scherer, secretary of the United Lutheran Church.
After the conference, Doctor Clutz and his son were to have traveled for several weeks through Continental Europe, visitng Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France. They had expected to sail from Cherbourg, France, September 19, reaching here about October 1.
RETIRED FROM ACTIVE WORK
Before sailing for Stockholm, Doctor Clutz announced he resignation as professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Seminary effective September, 1926. He had planned to teach one year more, thereby rounding out seventeen years as a member of the faculty of the local theological institution.
Doctor Clutz was born in Adams county on January 5, 1848, and was a veteran of the Civil War. For a number of years, he served as chaplain and commander of the Corporal Skelly post of the Grand Army of the Republic here.
He was a son of the late Henry and Hannah (Buffington) Clutz. After graduating from Gettysburg College with the class of 1869, he dedicated his life to the ministry by entering the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, graduating with the class of 1872.
He served pastorates at Newville, Cumberland county, his first call after graduating from the seminary, later preaching at Baltimore, Eat Norway, Kansas, and St. James Lutheran church, Gettysburg.
After graduating from seminary, Doctor Clutz was married to Miss Liberty Hollinger, of Gettysburg, and this union were born three sons and two daughters.
From 1883, when he closed his pastorate at the Lutheran church in Baltimore, until 1889, Doctor Clutz was general secretary of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions.
LED KANSAS COLLEGE
Called to Midland College, Atchison, Kansas, to become its president in 1883, the veteran theologian served as head of that school until 1904, becoming one of the best known and most universally liked college presidents of the Middle West. While he was president of Midland College, he taught homiletics and Christian ethics at the Western Theological Seminary, located at Atchison.
In 1904, he was given a call to become pastor of St. James Lutheran church, here, which he accepted, at the same time teaching practical theology at the seminary. For five years he supplied the pulpit at St. James Lutheran church, endearing himself to the congregation which grew by leaps and bounds during his ministry.
In 1909, he relinquished the pastorate of the local church to take the chair of practical theology and homiletics at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, moving to the large home on the beautiful campus of the seminary.
Doctor Clutz was a favorite with his associates on the teaching staff of the seminary, and all joined today in paying tribute in "the exemplary life and unceasing efforts in the training of young men for ministry which Doctor Clutz embodied."
Doctor Clutz also was prominent in the office of the higher governing of the Lutheran denomination in the United States, being a member of the ways and means for the unification of the Lutheran church in the United States, which later resolved itself into the United Lutheran Church of America.
Besides being general secretary of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions of the General Synod of the Lutheran church from 1872 to 1883, Doctor Clutz was secretary of the Lutheran Board of Foreign Missions, 1977 to 1883: president of the Lutheran General Synod, Lebanon, 1891; treasurer of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions, General Synod, 1907 to 1913, later being president of that synod from 1913-1915.
He was a member of the committee on ways and means to perfect a merger of the Lutheran General Synod, the General Council and the United Synod of the South.
After formation of the United Lutheran Church in America, which embraced all branches of the Lutheran denomination, Doctor Clutz, who was active in bringing about the consolidation of the many minor Synods of the town of the church under the one great governing body, was named a member of the executive committee, on which he served from 1918 until 1921, when he was automatically retired, being unable to serve longer.
Since 1908, Doctor Clutz was a trustee of Gettysburg Collegem and this morning Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of that institution, spoke very highly of the veteran theologian, extalling his many admirable qualities.
Doctor Clutz held several degrees, Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Divinity from Gettysburg College, and Doctor of Laws, which he received from Midland College, Freemont, Nebraska, in 1920.
PROLIFIC WRITER
Doctor Clutz was a prolific writer. He was one of the editors,as well as a contributor of Lutheran Quarterly, the official organ of the Lutheran church. He was a contributor to other church papers and religious works, and had planned to write a book after leaving the faculty and seminary next September.
Doctor Clutz also was recognized by election and appointment to other important commissions and committees of the United Lutheran Church. At a meeting of the executive board last December, he was elected as one of a committee if ten for the study of theological education in the United Lutheran Church, and at the first meeting of the commission in New York city, February 8, this year, he was elected secretary of the commission.
BURY DR. CLUTZ SATURDAY; BODY ARRIVES FRIDAY
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Services Scheduled For Three O'clock In Christ Lutheran Church
All that is mortal of the Rev. Dr. Jacob A. Clutz, professor at the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, and prominently identified with thee United Lutheran Church in America, will arrive in New York City on Friday
The body of the late theologian, where suddenly death on a train near Stockholm, Sweden, almost three weeks ago, came as a shock to his relatives and hosts of friends in Gettysburg and elsewhere, is accompanied by his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, professor at Gettysburg College, who had gone with his father to Stockholm, where he was one of four official delegates from the United Lutheran Church in America to the Universal Christian Conference on Like and Work.
John Clutz, Broadway, son of Dr. Frank Clutz, has gone to New York City to meet the steamship Stavangersfjord, aboard which his father and the remains of his grandfather are being brought to this country from abroad. The ship is one day late, being scheduled to arrive on Thursday. Its first port of call was Halifax, coming from there to New York City, its destination.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
Complete arrangements for the funeral of the late Doctor Clutz, who was a minister, college president, and teacher at different time in his life, were announced today for relatives in charge.
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock has been set as the time for the services, which will be held from Christ Lutheran Church, the Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner, pastor, Doctor Wagner will preach the funeral sermon.
The Rev. Dr. J.A. Singmaster, president of the seminary here, under whom Doctor Clutz taught, will have the reading of the scripture lesson; Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, of which the deceased was a trustee, will read a favorite hymn and Dr. H.E. Jacobs, president of Mount Airy Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, and Dr. A.S. Hartman, Baltimore, a brother-in-law of Doctor Clutz will give prayers.
From 2:15 o'clock, Saturday afternoon until 3 o'clock, the hour of the services, the body of Doctor Clutz will lie in state at Christ Lutheran Church. Private internment will take place in Evergreen cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the seminary faculty. They will be Dr. Singmaster, Dr. Herbert C. Alleman, Dr. A.R. Wentz, Dr. H. Hadwin Fischer and Dr. M. Coover.
Active pallbearers will be the Rev. Earl J. Bowman, pastor of St. James Lutheran Church, of which Doctor Clutz was a one-time pastor; Carl Simon, president of the seminary student body, and four of the deceased theologian's oldest grandsons, John and Paul Clutz, Gettysburg; Frank Clutz, Troy, Kansas, and Robert Peters, New Cumberland.
COLLEGE MOURNS LOSS OF DR. CLUTZ
Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, in a statement prepared this morning following receipt of the word of the death of Rev. J.A. Clutz, expressed the regret of college officials over the loss of the noted theologian;
Gettysburg College learns with deepest regret of the death of the Rev. Professor J.A. Clutz, D.D., L.L., D. Dr. Clutz has been a member of the board of trustees of Gettysburg College since 1908. The confidence of the board was expressed in Doctor Clutz's election some years ago to the executive committee.
As President of Gettysburg College, I want to express my keen appreciation of the long and distinguished service rendered our institution by Doctor Clutz. He was always deeply interested in everything pertaining to the work of the college.
Gettysburg College deeply mourns, with the loved one of Doctor Clutz, the sudden passing of one of the outstanding men in the Lutheran Church.
EXPRESSIONS OF ESTEEM AND SORROW ARE VOICED ON PASSING OF REV. J.A. CLUTZ; DIES OF HEART DISEASE ABOARD TRAIN
From person in every walk and station of life today flowed expressions of esteem and sorrow on the passing of the Rev. Jacob A. Clutz, news of whose death was received by relatives here Tuesday.
The hig regard in which Doctor Clutz was held was voiced by everyone, everywhere, in homes of the rich as well as those not so fortunate. Comments on the exemplary character of his life were on the tongue of all, for he was known from the urchin in the street to those who held high positions in life.
His ready smile, cheerful disposition and spontaneous good will apparently had won him a high place in the hearts and minds of Gettysburg. His ability as a speaker was a subject for conversation in many places
FORCEFUL SPEAKER
It is recalled that one of the finest expositions he had spoken inn recent years was the baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Christ Lutheran Church in June. Its message not only impressed upon the young men about to enter their chosen profession but also upon the others in the church who listened to his utterances.
He was known as a forceful speaker, and members of St. James Lutheran church recalling his pastorate there, told of the vigor with which he filled the pulpit, and his untiring energy in advancing the work of the church and its several departments.
Although nearing his 78th Birthday, which would have come on next January 4, Doctor Clutz liked to think of himself as "just a young man," and took anyone to task for designating him as :aged Man." "A man like a woman," he said shortly before sailing for Europe, "is only as old as he feels. I am feeling young in spirit although my years belie it."
DIES ON TRAIN
Information received today from Stockholm, Sweden, in the effect that the venerable theologian died on a train one hour out of the Swedish capital, Monday night. The cause of death was given as heart disease. Doctor Clutz was struck by the rear end of a motor truck, while standing on a street corner in Stockholm, the evening of August 24. He was accompanied at the time by M.G.G. Sherer, general secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, who escaped unhurt.
The Gettysburg theologian was knocked to the pavement, suffering a slight fracture of the skull and a chest injury. Physicians at a hospital where he was taken said he would have to remain in bed a week, and then spend another week at the hospital. It is believed he was discharged as a patient from the hospital over the week-end, and that he and his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, had taken up their homeward journey, foregoing the tour of Continental Europe, whic was planned.
ON SEMINARY FACULTY
Since 1909, Doctor Clutz was a member of the faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, He also was prominently identified with the United Lutheran Church in America, which he had gone to Sweden to represent at the Universal Christian Conference, August 19 to 30.
From 1883 until 1904, when he took up his duties as pastor of St. James Lutheran church here, Doctor Clutz was president of Midland College, Atheison, Kansas, at the same time teaching in the Western Theological Seminary.
According to information received today, Dr. Frank Clutz will next Tuesday from Ohio, formerly Christiana, Norway, with the body of his father. He will sail aboard the steamship Stavangerfjord, which is due in New York City, September 24.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 9 1925
THEOLOGIAN WHO DIED ON MONDAY IN FOREIGN LAND, REV. DR. JACOB A. CLUTZ, member of the seminary staff, one of four United States delegates in the Universal Christian Conference of On Life and Work in Stockholm, Sweden, and who was injured when struck by an automobile truck in Stockholm, August 21, died Monday night, according to a cablegram received here from his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, who accompanied his father abroad.
REV. DR. JACOB A. CLUTZ DIES IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, MONDAY NIGHT; FRACTURES SKULL IN AUTO MISHAP
PROMINENT THEOLOGIAN, ONE OF FOUR DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE IN SWEDISH CAPITAL, SUCCUMBS; BODY TO BE RETURNED TO GETTYSBURG FOR BURIAL; WAS PROMINENT IN CHURCH WORK.
The Rev. Dr. Jacob A. Clutz, professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, here, died in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday night. He was in his seventy-eighth year.
"Father died last night," was the message of a cablegram received by relatives here this morning from Dr. Frank Clutz, professor at Gettysburg College, son of the veteran theologian, who had accompanied his father to Stockhom to attend the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work.
Doctor Clutz's death is believed to have been the direct result of the injury he received on August 24, in the Swedish Capital. In company with another delegate to the conference, which was held from August 19 to 30. Doctor Clutz was about to cross the street, when he was struck and felled by the rear end of a large delivery truck.
The end of the truck swinging around the corner, struck the veteran theologian, knocking him to the ground. In a semi conscious condition he was taken to a hospital, where an examination disclosed he was suffering from a slight fracture of the skull.
INJURIES NOT THOUGHT SERIOUS
His injuries were not considered serious by physicians or by his son, who cabled home a day after the accident saying his father's injuries were not serious. In a letter from the injured man's son a few days later, it was stated that physicians had advised his father to remain in bed for a week, and then to stay at the hospital another week.
According to calculations by relatives here, Doctor Clutz would have been discharged from the hospital on Monday, the day on which his death occurred. The man accompanying Doctor Clutz when knocked down by the motor truck escaped injury it was said in the letter from Dr. Frank Clutz.
In a letter received recently from Dr. Frank Clutz, it was related that his father was in seemingly good health, and rather chafed that he was compelled to remain in the hospital.
Doctor Clutz and his son sailed Tuesday, August 4, from New York City on board the steamship Bergensfjord for Stockholm, Sweden. They embarked for Bergen, Norway, and two interesting letters, detailing life aboard the steamer and the trip overland from Bergen to Stockholm, have been published in the Times. Both letters were written about a week before the accident, which resulted in the theologian's death.
CONFERENCE ENDED AUGUST 30
The conference on "Life and Work", which attracted about
150 delegates from the United States, four of them from the United Lutheran Church in America, was opened on August 19, and closed on August 30. In a letter to relatives here, the veteran teacher, author, college president and noted church figure, recounted the pomp accompanying the opening of the conference. He told of the pageantry accompanying the appearance of the King of Sweden on the floor of the conference.
From Bergen, Norway, where Doctor Clutz and his son landed, they went to Oslo, formerly Christiana, the capital of Norway, and thence Stockholm.
The conference to which Doctor Clutz had gone was first projected in 1919 at a meeting of the international committee of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the churches, held in The Hague. This was the first international conference of religious workers and leaders since the armistice and more than 500 delegates from all parts of the world and representing every domination and faith, except the Roman Catholic, were in attendance.
ONE OF FOUR DELEGATES
Doctor Clutz was signally honored by being chosen one of the four delegates from the United Lutheran Church in America to the conference. He was to have made a special study of the topic "The Church and International Relations," and reported at the next meeting of the United Lutheran Church.
The other three delegates from the Lutheran denominations this country attending the conference were Dr. E.E. Pfattescher, Reading: J.B. Franke, For Wayne, Indiana, and Dr. N.G.G. Scherer, secretary of the United Lutheran Church.
After the conference, Doctor Clutz and his son were to have traveled for several weeks through Continental Europe, visitng Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France. They had expected to sail from Cherbourg, France, September 19, reaching here about October 1.
RETIRED FROM ACTIVE WORK
Before sailing for Stockholm, Doctor Clutz announced he resignation as professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Seminary effective September, 1926. He had planned to teach one year more, thereby rounding out seventeen years as a member of the faculty of the local theological institution.
Doctor Clutz was born in Adams county on January 5, 1848, and was a veteran of the Civil War. For a number of years, he served as chaplain and commander of the Corporal Skelly post of the Grand Army of the Republic here.
He was a son of the late Henry and Hannah (Buffington) Clutz. After graduating from Gettysburg College with the class of 1869, he dedicated his life to the ministry by entering the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, graduating with the class of 1872.
He served pastorates at Newville, Cumberland county, his first call after graduating from the seminary, later preaching at Baltimore, Eat Norway, Kansas, and St. James Lutheran church, Gettysburg.
After graduating from seminary, Doctor Clutz was married to Miss Liberty Hollinger, of Gettysburg, and this union were born three sons and two daughters.
From 1883, when he closed his pastorate at the Lutheran church in Baltimore, until 1889, Doctor Clutz was general secretary of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions.
LED KANSAS COLLEGE
Called to Midland College, Atchison, Kansas, to become its president in 1883, the veteran theologian served as head of that school until 1904, becoming one of the best known and most universally liked college presidents of the Middle West. While he was president of Midland College, he taught homiletics and Christian ethics at the Western Theological Seminary, located at Atchison.
In 1904, he was given a call to become pastor of St. James Lutheran church, here, which he accepted, at the same time teaching practical theology at the seminary. For five years he supplied the pulpit at St. James Lutheran church, endearing himself to the congregation which grew by leaps and bounds during his ministry.
In 1909, he relinquished the pastorate of the local church to take the chair of practical theology and homiletics at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, moving to the large home on the beautiful campus of the seminary.
Doctor Clutz was a favorite with his associates on the teaching staff of the seminary, and all joined today in paying tribute in "the exemplary life and unceasing efforts in the training of young men for ministry which Doctor Clutz embodied."
Doctor Clutz also was prominent in the office of the higher governing of the Lutheran denomination in the United States, being a member of the ways and means for the unification of the Lutheran church in the United States, which later resolved itself into the United Lutheran Church of America.
Besides being general secretary of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions of the General Synod of the Lutheran church from 1872 to 1883, Doctor Clutz was secretary of the Lutheran Board of Foreign Missions, 1977 to 1883: president of the Lutheran General Synod, Lebanon, 1891; treasurer of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions, General Synod, 1907 to 1913, later being president of that synod from 1913-1915.
He was a member of the committee on ways and means to perfect a merger of the Lutheran General Synod, the General Council and the United Synod of the South.
After formation of the United Lutheran Church in America, which embraced all branches of the Lutheran denomination, Doctor Clutz, who was active in bringing about the consolidation of the many minor Synods of the town of the church under the one great governing body, was named a member of the executive committee, on which he served from 1918 until 1921, when he was automatically retired, being unable to serve longer.
Since 1908, Doctor Clutz was a trustee of Gettysburg Collegem and this morning Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of that institution, spoke very highly of the veteran theologian, extalling his many admirable qualities.
Doctor Clutz held several degrees, Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Divinity from Gettysburg College, and Doctor of Laws, which he received from Midland College, Freemont, Nebraska, in 1920.
PROLIFIC WRITER
Doctor Clutz was a prolific writer. He was one of the editors,as well as a contributor of Lutheran Quarterly, the official organ of the Lutheran church. He was a contributor to other church papers and religious works, and had planned to write a book after leaving the faculty and seminary next September.
Doctor Clutz also was recognized by election and appointment to other important commissions and committees of the United Lutheran Church. At a meeting of the executive board last December, he was elected as one of a committee if ten for the study of theological education in the United Lutheran Church, and at the first meeting of the commission in New York city, February 8, this year, he was elected secretary of the commission.
BURY DR. CLUTZ SATURDAY; BODY ARRIVES FRIDAY
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Services Scheduled For Three O'clock In Christ Lutheran Church
All that is mortal of the Rev. Dr. Jacob A. Clutz, professor at the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, and prominently identified with thee United Lutheran Church in America, will arrive in New York City on Friday
The body of the late theologian, where suddenly death on a train near Stockholm, Sweden, almost three weeks ago, came as a shock to his relatives and hosts of friends in Gettysburg and elsewhere, is accompanied by his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, professor at Gettysburg College, who had gone with his father to Stockholm, where he was one of four official delegates from the United Lutheran Church in America to the Universal Christian Conference on Like and Work.
John Clutz, Broadway, son of Dr. Frank Clutz, has gone to New York City to meet the steamship Stavangersfjord, aboard which his father and the remains of his grandfather are being brought to this country from abroad. The ship is one day late, being scheduled to arrive on Thursday. Its first port of call was Halifax, coming from there to New York City, its destination.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
Complete arrangements for the funeral of the late Doctor Clutz, who was a minister, college president, and teacher at different time in his life, were announced today for relatives in charge.
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock has been set as the time for the services, which will be held from Christ Lutheran Church, the Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner, pastor, Doctor Wagner will preach the funeral sermon.
The Rev. Dr. J.A. Singmaster, president of the seminary here, under whom Doctor Clutz taught, will have the reading of the scripture lesson; Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, of which the deceased was a trustee, will read a favorite hymn and Dr. H.E. Jacobs, president of Mount Airy Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, and Dr. A.S. Hartman, Baltimore, a brother-in-law of Doctor Clutz will give prayers.
From 2:15 o'clock, Saturday afternoon until 3 o'clock, the hour of the services, the body of Doctor Clutz will lie in state at Christ Lutheran Church. Private internment will take place in Evergreen cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the seminary faculty. They will be Dr. Singmaster, Dr. Herbert C. Alleman, Dr. A.R. Wentz, Dr. H. Hadwin Fischer and Dr. M. Coover.
Active pallbearers will be the Rev. Earl J. Bowman, pastor of St. James Lutheran Church, of which Doctor Clutz was a one-time pastor; Carl Simon, president of the seminary student body, and four of the deceased theologian's oldest grandsons, John and Paul Clutz, Gettysburg; Frank Clutz, Troy, Kansas, and Robert Peters, New Cumberland.
COLLEGE MOURNS LOSS OF DR. CLUTZ
Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, in a statement prepared this morning following receipt of the word of the death of Rev. J.A. Clutz, expressed the regret of college officials over the loss of the noted theologian;
Gettysburg College learns with deepest regret of the death of the Rev. Professor J.A. Clutz, D.D., L.L., D. Dr. Clutz has been a member of the board of trustees of Gettysburg College since 1908. The confidence of the board was expressed in Doctor Clutz's election some years ago to the executive committee.
As President of Gettysburg College, I want to express my keen appreciation of the long and distinguished service rendered our institution by Doctor Clutz. He was always deeply interested in everything pertaining to the work of the college.
Gettysburg College deeply mourns, with the loved one of Doctor Clutz, the sudden passing of one of the outstanding men in the Lutheran Church.
EXPRESSIONS OF ESTEEM AND SORROW ARE VOICED ON PASSING OF REV. J.A. CLUTZ; DIES OF HEART DISEASE ABOARD TRAIN
From person in every walk and station of life today flowed expressions of esteem and sorrow on the passing of the Rev. Jacob A. Clutz, news of whose death was received by relatives here Tuesday.
The hig regard in which Doctor Clutz was held was voiced by everyone, everywhere, in homes of the rich as well as those not so fortunate. Comments on the exemplary character of his life were on the tongue of all, for he was known from the urchin in the street to those who held high positions in life.
His ready smile, cheerful disposition and spontaneous good will apparently had won him a high place in the hearts and minds of Gettysburg. His ability as a speaker was a subject for conversation in many places
FORCEFUL SPEAKER
It is recalled that one of the finest expositions he had spoken inn recent years was the baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Christ Lutheran Church in June. Its message not only impressed upon the young men about to enter their chosen profession but also upon the others in the church who listened to his utterances.
He was known as a forceful speaker, and members of St. James Lutheran church recalling his pastorate there, told of the vigor with which he filled the pulpit, and his untiring energy in advancing the work of the church and its several departments.
Although nearing his 78th Birthday, which would have come on next January 4, Doctor Clutz liked to think of himself as "just a young man," and took anyone to task for designating him as :aged Man." "A man like a woman," he said shortly before sailing for Europe, "is only as old as he feels. I am feeling young in spirit although my years belie it."
DIES ON TRAIN
Information received today from Stockholm, Sweden, in the effect that the venerable theologian died on a train one hour out of the Swedish capital, Monday night. The cause of death was given as heart disease. Doctor Clutz was struck by the rear end of a motor truck, while standing on a street corner in Stockholm, the evening of August 24. He was accompanied at the time by M.G.G. Sherer, general secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, who escaped unhurt.
The Gettysburg theologian was knocked to the pavement, suffering a slight fracture of the skull and a chest injury. Physicians at a hospital where he was taken said he would have to remain in bed a week, and then spend another week at the hospital. It is believed he was discharged as a patient from the hospital over the week-end, and that he and his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, had taken up their homeward journey, foregoing the tour of Continental Europe, whic was planned.
ON SEMINARY FACULTY
Since 1909, Doctor Clutz was a member of the faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, He also was prominently identified with the United Lutheran Church in America, which he had gone to Sweden to represent at the Universal Christian Conference, August 19 to 30.
From 1883 until 1904, when he took up his duties as pastor of St. James Lutheran church here, Doctor Clutz was president of Midland College, Atheison, Kansas, at the same time teaching in the Western Theological Seminary.
According to information received today, Dr. Frank Clutz will next Tuesday from Ohio, formerly Christiana, Norway, with the body of his father. He will sail aboard the steamship Stavangerfjord, which is due in New York City, September 24.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 9 1925
REV. DR. JACOB A. CLUTZ DIES IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, MONDAY NIGHT; FRACTURES SKULL IN AUTO MISHAP
PROMINENT THEOLOGIAN, ONE OF FOUR DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE IN SWEDISH CAPITAL, SUCCUMBS; BODY TO BE RETURNED TO GETTYSBURG FOR BURIAL; WAS PROMINENT IN CHURCH WORK.
The Rev. Dr. Jacob A. Clutz, professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, here, died in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday night. He was in his seventy-eighth year.
"Father died last night," was the message of a cablegram received by relatives here this morning from Dr. Frank Clutz, professor at Gettysburg College, son of the veteran theologian, who had accompanied his father to Stockhom to attend the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work.
Doctor Clutz's death is believed to have been the direct result of the injury he received on August 24, in the Swedish Capital. In company with another delegate to the conference, which was held from August 19 to 30. Doctor Clutz was about to cross the street, when he was struck and felled by the rear end of a large delivery truck.
The end of the truck swinging around the corner, struck the veteran theologian, knocking him to the ground. In a semi conscious condition he was taken to a hospital, where an examination disclosed he was suffering from a slight fracture of the skull.
INJURIES NOT THOUGHT SERIOUS
His injuries were not considered serious by physicians or by his son, who cabled home a day after the accident saying his father's injuries were not serious. In a letter from the injured man's son a few days later, it was stated that physicians had advised his father to remain in bed for a week, and then to stay at the hospital another week.
According to calculations by relatives here, Doctor Clutz would have been discharged from the hospital on Monday, the day on which his death occurred. The man accompanying Doctor Clutz when knocked down by the motor truck escaped injury it was said in the letter from Dr. Frank Clutz.
In a letter received recently from Dr. Frank Clutz, it was related that his father was in seemingly good health, and rather chafed that he was compelled to remain in the hospital.
Doctor Clutz and his son sailed Tuesday, August 4, from New York City on board the steamship Bergensfjord for Stockholm, Sweden. They embarked for Bergen, Norway, and two interesting letters, detailing life aboard the steamer and the trip overland from Bergen to Stockholm, have been published in the Times. Both letters were written about a week before the accident, which resulted in the theologian's death.
CONFERENCE ENDED AUGUST 30
The conference on "Life and Work", which attracted about
150 delegates from the United States, four of them from the United Lutheran Church in America, was opened on August 19, and closed on August 30. In a letter to relatives here, the veteran teacher, author, college president and noted church figure, recounted the pomp accompanying the opening of the conference. He told of the pageantry accompanying the appearance of the King of Sweden on the floor of the conference.
From Bergen, Norway, where Doctor Clutz and his son landed, they went to Oslo, formerly Christiana, the capital of Norway, and thence Stockholm.
The conference to which Doctor Clutz had gone was first projected in 1919 at a meeting of the international committee of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the churches, held in The Hague. This was the first international conference of religious workers and leaders since the armistice and more than 500 delegates from all parts of the world and representing every domination and faith, except the Roman Catholic, were in attendance.
ONE OF FOUR DELEGATES
Doctor Clutz was signally honored by being chosen one of the four delegates from the United Lutheran Church in America to the conference. He was to have made a special study of the topic "The Church and International Relations," and reported at the next meeting of the United Lutheran Church.
The other three delegates from the Lutheran denominations this country attending the conference were Dr. E.E. Pfattescher, Reading: J.B. Franke, For Wayne, Indiana, and Dr. N.G.G. Scherer, secretary of the United Lutheran Church.
After the conference, Doctor Clutz and his son were to have traveled for several weeks through Continental Europe, visitng Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France. They had expected to sail from Cherbourg, France, September 19, reaching here about October 1.
RETIRED FROM ACTIVE WORK
Before sailing for Stockholm, Doctor Clutz announced he resignation as professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Seminary effective September, 1926. He had planned to teach one year more, thereby rounding out seventeen years as a member of the faculty of the local theological institution.
Doctor Clutz was born in Adams county on January 5, 1848, and was a veteran of the Civil War. For a number of years, he served as chaplain and commander of the Corporal Skelly post of the Grand Army of the Republic here.
He was a son of the late Henry and Hannah (Buffington) Clutz. After graduating from Gettysburg College with the class of 1869, he dedicated his life to the ministry by entering the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, graduating with the class of 1872.
He served pastorates at Newville, Cumberland county, his first call after graduating from the seminary, later preaching at Baltimore, Eat Norway, Kansas, and St. James Lutheran church, Gettysburg.
After graduating from seminary, Doctor Clutz was married to Miss Liberty Hollinger, of Gettysburg, and this union were born three sons and two daughters.
From 1883, when he closed his pastorate at the Lutheran church in Baltimore, until 1889, Doctor Clutz was general secretary of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions.
LED KANSAS COLLEGE
Called to Midland College, Atchison, Kansas, to become its president in 1883, the veteran theologian served as head of that school until 1904, becoming one of the best known and most universally liked college presidents of the Middle West. While he was president of Midland College, he taught homiletics and Christian ethics at the Western Theological Seminary, located at Atchison.
In 1904, he was given a call to become pastor of St. James Lutheran church, here, which he accepted, at the same time teaching practical theology at the seminary. For five years he supplied the pulpit at St. James Lutheran church, endearing himself to the congregation which grew by leaps and bounds during his ministry.
In 1909, he relinquished the pastorate of the local church to take the chair of practical theology and homiletics at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, moving to the large home on the beautiful campus of the seminary.
Doctor Clutz was a favorite with his associates on the teaching staff of the seminary, and all joined today in paying tribute in "the exemplary life and unceasing efforts in the training of young men for ministry which Doctor Clutz embodied."
Doctor Clutz also was prominent in the office of the higher governing of the Lutheran denomination in the United States, being a member of the ways and means for the unification of the Lutheran church in the United States, which later resolved itself into the United Lutheran Church of America.
Besides being general secretary of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions of the General Synod of the Lutheran church from 1872 to 1883, Doctor Clutz was secretary of the Lutheran Board of Foreign Missions, 1977 to 1883: president of the Lutheran General Synod, Lebanon, 1891; treasurer of the Lutheran Board of Home Missions, General Synod, 1907 to 1913, later being president of that synod from 1913-1915.
He was a member of the committee on ways and means to perfect a merger of the Lutheran General Synod, the General Council and the United Synod of the South.
After formation of the United Lutheran Church in America, which embraced all branches of the Lutheran denomination, Doctor Clutz, who was active in bringing about the consolidation of the many minor Synods of the town of the church under the one great governing body, was named a member of the executive committee, on which he served from 1918 until 1921, when he was automatically retired, being unable to serve longer.
Since 1908, Doctor Clutz was a trustee of Gettysburg Collegem and this morning Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of that institution, spoke very highly of the veteran theologian, extalling his many admirable qualities.
Doctor Clutz held several degrees, Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Divinity from Gettysburg College, and Doctor of Laws, which he received from Midland College, Freemont, Nebraska, in 1920.
PROLIFIC WRITER
Doctor Clutz was a prolific writer. He was one of the editors,as well as a contributor of Lutheran Quarterly, the official organ of the Lutheran church. He was a contributor to other church papers and religious works, and had planned to write a book after leaving the faculty and seminary next September.
Doctor Clutz also was recognized by election and appointment to other important commissions and committees of the United Lutheran Church. At a meeting of the executive board last December, he was elected as one of a committee if ten for the study of theological education in the United Lutheran Church, and at the first meeting of the commission in New York city, February 8, this year, he was elected secretary of the commission.
BURY DR. CLUTZ SATURDAY; BODY ARRIVES FRIDAY
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Services Scheduled For Three O'clock In Christ Lutheran Church
All that is mortal of the Rev. Dr. Jacob A. Clutz, professor at the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, and prominently identified with thee United Lutheran Church in America, will arrive in New York City on Friday
The body of the late theologian, where suddenly death on a train near Stockholm, Sweden, almost three weeks ago, came as a shock to his relatives and hosts of friends in Gettysburg and elsewhere, is accompanied by his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, professor at Gettysburg College, who had gone with his father to Stockholm, where he was one of four official delegates from the United Lutheran Church in America to the Universal Christian Conference on Like and Work.
John Clutz, Broadway, son of Dr. Frank Clutz, has gone to New York City to meet the steamship Stavangersfjord, aboard which his father and the remains of his grandfather are being brought to this country from abroad. The ship is one day late, being scheduled to arrive on Thursday. Its first port of call was Halifax, coming from there to New York City, its destination.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
Complete arrangements for the funeral of the late Doctor Clutz, who was a minister, college president, and teacher at different time in his life, were announced today for relatives in charge.
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock has been set as the time for the services, which will be held from Christ Lutheran Church, the Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner, pastor, Doctor Wagner will preach the funeral sermon.
The Rev. Dr. J.A. Singmaster, president of the seminary here, under whom Doctor Clutz taught, will have the reading of the scripture lesson; Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, of which the deceased was a trustee, will read a favorite hymn and Dr. H.E. Jacobs, president of Mount Airy Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, and Dr. A.S. Hartman, Baltimore, a brother-in-law of Doctor Clutz will give prayers.
From 2:15 o'clock, Saturday afternoon until 3 o'clock, the hour of the services, the body of Doctor Clutz will lie in state at Christ Lutheran Church. Private internment will take place in Evergreen cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the seminary faculty. They will be Dr. Singmaster, Dr. Herbert C. Alleman, Dr. A.R. Wentz, Dr. H. Hadwin Fischer and Dr. M. Coover.
Active pallbearers will be the Rev. Earl J. Bowman, pastor of St. James Lutheran Church, of which Doctor Clutz was a one-time pastor; Carl Simon, president of the seminary student body, and four of the deceased theologian's oldest grandsons, John and Paul Clutz, Gettysburg; Frank Clutz, Troy, Kansas, and Robert Peters, New Cumberland.
COLLEGE MOURNS LOSS OF DR. CLUTZ
Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, in a statement prepared this morning following receipt of the word of the death of Rev. J.A. Clutz, expressed the regret of college officials over the loss of the noted theologian;
Gettysburg College learns with deepest regret of the death of the Rev. Professor J.A. Clutz, D.D., L.L., D. Dr. Clutz has been a member of the board of trustees of Gettysburg College since 1908. The confidence of the board was expressed in Doctor Clutz's election some years ago to the executive committee.
As President of Gettysburg College, I want to express my keen appreciation of the long and distinguished service rendered our institution by Doctor Clutz. He was always deeply interested in everything pertaining to the work of the college.
Gettysburg College deeply mourns, with the loved one of Doctor Clutz, the sudden passing of one of the outstanding men in the Lutheran Church.
EXPRESSIONS OF ESTEEM AND SORROW ARE VOICED ON PASSING OF REV. J.A. CLUTZ; DIES OF HEART DISEASE ABOARD TRAIN
From person in every walk and station of life today flowed expressions of esteem and sorrow on the passing of the Rev. Jacob A. Clutz, news of whose death was received by relatives here Tuesday.
The hig regard in which Doctor Clutz was held was voiced by everyone, everywhere, in homes of the rich as well as those not so fortunate. Comments on the exemplary character of his life were on the tongue of all, for he was known from the urchin in the street to those who held high positions in life.
His ready smile, cheerful disposition and spontaneous good will apparently had won him a high place in the hearts and minds of Gettysburg. His ability as a speaker was a subject for conversation in many places
FORCEFUL SPEAKER
It is recalled that one of the finest expositions he had spoken inn recent years was the baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Christ Lutheran Church in June. Its message not only impressed upon the young men about to enter their chosen profession but also upon the others in the church who listened to his utterances.
He was known as a forceful speaker, and members of St. James Lutheran church recalling his pastorate there, told of the vigor with which he filled the pulpit, and his untiring energy in advancing the work of the church and its several departments.
Although nearing his 78th Birthday, which would have come on next January 4, Doctor Clutz liked to think of himself as "just a young man," and took anyone to task for designating him as :aged Man." "A man like a woman," he said shortly before sailing for Europe, "is only as old as he feels. I am feeling young in spirit although my years belie it."
DIES ON TRAIN
Information received today from Stockholm, Sweden, in the effect that the venerable theologian died on a train one hour out of the Swedish capital, Monday night. The cause of death was given as heart disease. Doctor Clutz was struck by the rear end of a motor truck, while standing on a street corner in Stockholm, the evening of August 24. He was accompanied at the time by M.G.G. Sherer, general secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, who escaped unhurt.
The Gettysburg theologian was knocked to the pavement, suffering a slight fracture of the skull and a chest injury. Physicians at a hospital where he was taken said he would have to remain in bed a week, and then spend another week at the hospital. It is believed he was discharged as a patient from the hospital over the week-end, and that he and his son, Dr. Frank Clutz, had taken up their homeward journey, foregoing the tour of Continental Europe, whic was planned.
ON SEMINARY FACULTY
Since 1909, Doctor Clutz was a member of the faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary here, He also was prominently identified with the United Lutheran Church in America, which he had gone to Sweden to represent at the Universal Christian Conference, August 19 to 30.
From 1883 until 1904, when he took up his duties as pastor of St. James Lutheran church here, Doctor Clutz was president of Midland College, Atheison, Kansas, at the same time teaching in the Western Theological Seminary.
According to information received today, Dr. Frank Clutz will next Tuesday from Ohio, formerly Christiana, Norway, with the body of his father. He will sail aboard the steamship Stavangerfjord, which is due in New York City, September 24.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 9 1925
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