J. M. Reu Predicted the Lutheran Rot of Today

Trinity Lutheran Seminary (ELCA) was formerly known as Capital Seminary. Lenski taught there and even has a little room named after him. Lenski's daughter Lois became famous for children's stories. My wife was a Lois Lenski fan long before I was a Professor Lenski admirer. She insisted that Roald Dahl married Lois, but he married actress Patricia O'Neal. Therefore, I erred in my human nature when I delved into Lois' biography without checking. (A. Nony Mouse is overly concerned about Lois' actual marriage partner, I think. See his sourpuss comment, true to form.)

Reu's lectures were published by the old ALC in Columbus. They published the Lenski New Testament commentaries, which are still unequaled.

"We find this attitude of tolerance quite frequently among unionists. It is often used to assuage a troubled conscience, one's own as well as that of others; for the unionist declares that every one may continue to hold his own private convictions and merely needs to respect and tolerate those of another. This attitude is totally wrong, for it disregards two important factors: (a) in tolerating divergent doctrines one either denies the perspicuity and clarity of the Scriptures, or one grants to error the right to exist alongside of truth, or one evidences indifference over against Biblical truth by surrendering its absolute validity;and (b) in allowing two opposite views concerning one doctrine to exist side by side, one has entered upon an inclined plane which of necessity leads ever further into complete doctrinal indifference, as may plainly be seen from the most calamitous case on record, viz., the Prussian Union."
J. M. Reu, In the Interest of Lutheran Unity, Columbus: The Lutheran Book Concern, 1940, p. 20.

"Doctrinal indifference is at once the root of unionism and its fruit. Whoever accepts, in theory as well as in practice, the absolute authority of the Scriptures and their unambiguousness with reference to all fundamental doctrines, must be opposed to every form of unionism."
J. M. Reu, In the Interest of Lutheran Unity, Columbus: The Lutheran Book Concern, 1940, p. 20.

Here is a link about Reu.