on 4th of July this sign was still being painted
day lilies at Franklin Conservatory, Columbus Ohio
that transitional color between yellow and green
Ω☨ “Vive la Rêsistance”
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (*1811, 1887☨)
I was in Cleveland's Zion Lutheran on 30th & Prospect, and this portrait was on a window next to a similar portrait of Martin Luther. He looked like a 19th century geezer on an advertising label, I 'googled' the name of an early pastor of the church, and that man's photograph came up, and two fotos of this guy.
Walther was one of the Lutheran Germans who left Germany because the denomination was not strict enough. He became the first president of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. He believed, wrote, and taught all other denominations of Christianity were of lesser character than his own.
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