. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . FranckeanInstitutions at Halle (§86). He arrived in Philadelphiain November 1742. He was then in his 32nd in the school of German Pietism in its bestdays, richly endowed in heart and mind, possessed of asound judgment and practical sense, and filled with lovefor the salvation of souls and with faith in God and thefuture of the Church in America, he was especiallyequipped for the great work he was called to call had gone forth from three churches, namelyPhiladelphia, Providence, and New Hanover, and thesebecame
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . FranckeanInstitutions at Halle (§86). He arrived in Philadelphiain November 1742. He was then in his 32nd in the school of German Pietism in its bestdays, richly endowed in heart and mind, possessed of asound judgment and practical sense, and filled with lovefor the salvation of souls and with faith in God and thefuture of the Church in America, he was especiallyequipped for the great work he was called to call had gone forth from three churches, namelyPhiladelphia, Providence, and New Hanover, and thesebecame the center and nucleus of his work. Graduallyhis field extended far beyond these limits until the wholecontinent became his parish. In 1748 he organized thefirst Evangelical Lutheran Synod in America, in Phila- THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA 317 delphia. This body is known to-day as the EvangelicalLutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and AdjacentStates. There were present at this organization thefollowing ministers: Sandin and Nsesman of the Swedish. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. Churches, and Muhlenberg, Brunnholtz, Handschuh,Kurtz, and Hartwig of the German. As the Church grew and developed other bodies wereorganized. In 1787 the Ministerium of New York wasformed. The North Carolina Synod followed in 1803;the Ohio Synod in 1818; the Maryland and VirginiaSynod in 1820; the Tennessee in 1820. 318 THE MODERN ERA In 1820 delegates from the Pennsylvania, the NewYork, the North Carolina, and the Maryland and Vir-ginia Synods met at Hagerstown, McL, for the purposeof organizing a General Synod of the Lutheran Churchin America. The plan was agreed to and the first meet-ing of the General Synod was held at Frederick, Md., in1824. One of the first important acts of this body wasthe establishment of the Theological seminary at Get-tysburg, Pa., in 1826. As new synods were formed theyjoined, with few exceptions, the general body until in1860 it embraced 26 synods. The Joint Synod of Ohio,
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