Lute
an instrument of the guitar of Protestantism in Germany; it is the family. It has five to six pairs of strings, each pair tuned in unisons or octaves. and Norway; and there are Lutheran The several frets of the lute are distinguished by the letters of the alphabet. The lute consists of four parts: The table; the body, which has 9 or 10 sides; the neck, which has as many stops or divisions; and the head or cross, in which the screws for tuning it are inserted.
The performer strikes the string with The fingers of the right hand, and regulates the sounds with those of the left. Simply constructed, it is called the French lute. With two necks-one for the bass notes-it is called a theorbo.
LUTETIA (lū-tē'shi-ä), a name by which the city of Paris was often anciently referred to: the word means "mud hovels." The Romans named the collection of huts they found here Lutetia Parisiorum, "the mud-town of the Parisii"; the first name being dropped left the present title, Paris. Also Asteroid 21, discovered by Goldschmidt at Paris, Nov. 15, 1852. national religion of Denmark, Sweden, Churches in the Baltic provinces of Russia, in Holland, France, Poland, and the United States. In all there are about 30,000,000 Lutherans.
In its constitution the Lutheran Church is generally unepiscopal, without being properly presbyterian. It is consistorial, with the civil authorities so far in place of bishops.
In Denmark, Sweden, and Norway there are bishops, and in Sweden an archbishop (of Upsala), but their powers are very limited. There were in the United States and Canada in 1919 3,652,010 baptized members and 2,451,997 confirmed members, with 9,829 ministers and 15,638 congregations. The Canadian membership was 64,490, with 237 ministers and 827 congregations. The denomination maintained missions, both domestic and foreign. Contributions for domestic missionary work in 1918 amounted to $6,383,103.
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