The practical seminary in Ft. Wayne was founded because of Loehe, who was also responsible for starting Wartburg Seminary, home of the Iowa Synod.
Loehe is supposed to be bad, bad, bad, and St. Walther is regarded as the ultimate Lutheran. Otten was miffed that Loehe was getting a little bit of publicity, with a conference devoted to the founder rather than the kidnap-usurper.
Was there a Loehe League to compete with the Walther League?
Is there a shrine to Loehe like Walther's?
Loehe was a true leader, serving in a no-account location but changing it through his investment in church missions. He began the group that invited the Stephanites to join.
Modesty set aside, as it always was among the Walther disciples, the new group was eventually called the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
But if anyone asks a Missouri Synod member, "Who's your daddy?"
The honest answer is, "Loehe."
I wonder when SP Harrison will come clean about Walther's criminal activities.
