Justus Falckner, mystic and scholar, devout Pietist in Germany, hermit on the Wissahickon, missionary on the Hudson : a bi-centennial memorial of the first regular ordination of an Orthodox pastor in America, done November 24, 1703, at Gloria Dei, the Swedish Lutheran church at Wicaco, Philadelphia . As Dominie. 7i Thus the new dominie was sent out to minister in theadjoining Provinces ; and to the Orthodox Lutheran Churchin Pennsylvania is due to the honor of having ordainedand sent out the first man, a native of Saxony, for domesticmissions in the western world; who was to labor, not aloneam
Justus Falckner, mystic and scholar, devout Pietist in Germany, hermit on the Wissahickon, missionary on the Hudson : a bi-centennial memorial of the first regular ordination of an Orthodox pastor in America, done November 24, 1703, at Gloria Dei, the Swedish Lutheran church at Wicaco, Philadelphia . As Dominie. 7i Thus the new dominie was sent out to minister in theadjoining Provinces ; and to the Orthodox Lutheran Churchin Pennsylvania is due to the honor of having ordainedand sent out the first man, a native of Saxony, for domesticmissions in the western world; who was to labor, not aloneamong those of his own kith and kin, but among peoplewho used a European tongue foreign to his own. ^^*s. J9 (Mi* PORTRAIT OF REV. NICHOLAS COLLIN, , THE LAST OF THE LONG LINEOF SWEDISH MINISTERS WHO SERVED ON THE DELAWARE.
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