The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . eminaries ;eleven periodical publications—six English, three German, and twoNorwegian ; thirty-four synods ; nearly one thousand ministers ; twothousand congregations ; two hundred thousand communicants. TheLutheran population in this country, and throughout the world, maybe briefly stated as follows : United States, ----- 1,000,000 Sweden, 3,000,000 Norway, ------ ,000 Denmark, the Faro Islands, Jutland and Greenland, - 2,0
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . eminaries ;eleven periodical publications—six English, three German, and twoNorwegian ; thirty-four synods ; nearly one thousand ministers ; twothousand congregations ; two hundred thousand communicants. TheLutheran population in this country, and throughout the world, maybe briefly stated as follows : United States, ----- 1,000,000 Sweden, 3,000,000 Norway, ------ ,000 Denmark, the Faro Islands, Jutland and Greenland, - 2,000,000 France, ------ 500,000 Protestant Germany, the land of Luther, - - 25,000,000 Prussia, ------ 5,000,000 Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, - - - 1,500,000 Poland and Russia, - 2,500,000 West India Islands, ----- 100,000 Brazil, - - - - - 100,000 South American States, - 50,000 Total, 42,250,000 Among others to whom we have been indebted in the preparationof this article, we may mention the Rev. Dr. Schmucker; the Lochman, and Rev. J. D. Smith; Michelet, Taits Magazine, andthe Lutheran Almanac for 1854. THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN TENNESSEE P W A R D S of thirty years ago, a numberof the members of the Lutheran Churchin Tennessee became dissatisfied with thestate of that body, deeply lamenting thatin their judgment the spirit of piety hadgreatly declined, and the most importantdoctrines of Christianity were either deniedor concealed. They therefore took mea-sures to organize a new body, under thename of The Evangelical Lutheran Ten-nessee. Synod. Other bodies of a similarcharacter, in Missouri and elsewhere, havebeen since the last official publication of this body, in 1853, we givetheir Constitution, as adopted in September, 1828, including their ownaccount as to the Confession of Faith. We regret our want of room toconnect with each article their explanatory remarks. Article I. The Holy Scriptures, or the inspired writings of theOld and New
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