English Lutheranism in the Northwest / y George Henry Trabert . be begun when it was. Owing to the constant stream of immigrants fromthe different Lutheran countries of Europe, beginningat an early period and continuing with little interruptionto the beginning of the twentieth century, the Churchhad its hands more than full to provide for her childrenfrom abroad. It is quite natural to see how the differentnationalities, German, Swedish and Norwegian, couldnot realize the necessity of making way for the Englishas long as many thousands of the Lutheran immigrants oftheir own flesh and blood wer
English Lutheranism in the Northwest / y George Henry Trabert . be begun when it was. Owing to the constant stream of immigrants fromthe different Lutheran countries of Europe, beginningat an early period and continuing with little interruptionto the beginning of the twentieth century, the Churchhad its hands more than full to provide for her childrenfrom abroad. It is quite natural to see how the differentnationalities, German, Swedish and Norwegian, couldnot realize the necessity of making way for the Englishas long as many thousands of the Lutheran immigrants oftheir own flesh and blood were uncared for. With thechurches, especially in the cities, filled to overflowing andthe many thousands unchurched, who could be minis-tered unto only in their own mother tongue, it was hardto realize how many of the second generation, becauseof their being trained in the English Public Schools, andin constant contact with English speaking people, wouldprefer the English language. But the conditions rapidlybecame such, that many of the young people, and often. St. Johns English Lutheran Church, Philadelphia INTRODUCTORY 17 whole families were absorbed by neighboring congrega-tions because the Lutheran Church did not provideservices in the recognized language of America. This condition of things was not unnoticed by somefar-seeing men in the Church in the East. They hadseen the losses the Church had sustained at an earlierperiod; how, in what were at one time predominantlyLutheran communities, other churches had come to thefront and were leaving their impression upon the people,while the Lutheran Church received only passing what made the picture such a sad one, was the fact,that the leading members of those congregations were ofLutheran stock and should have been in the Lutheran fold. But while the Northwest was filling up with immigrantsfrom the East, to many of whom the English languagewas the mother tongue, and with Lutheran immigrantsfrom abroad who were being min
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