English Lutheranism in the Northwest / y George Henry Trabert . anized head around which others couldcluster and say, this is our Church. On May 20, 1883,Trinity Sunday, it was resolved to call a meeting, whichwas held on May 22nd, looking to the organization of acongregation. Those present at the meeting and the oneheld a week later, when the organization was perfectedby the adoption of a Constitution, were indeed an inter-esting number of men. The first was of Swedish stock, amember of the Augustana congregation, who was ad-vised by his pastor to join the English work. He is nowa judge of th
English Lutheranism in the Northwest / y George Henry Trabert . anized head around which others couldcluster and say, this is our Church. On May 20, 1883,Trinity Sunday, it was resolved to call a meeting, whichwas held on May 22nd, looking to the organization of acongregation. Those present at the meeting and the oneheld a week later, when the organization was perfectedby the adoption of a Constitution, were indeed an inter-esting number of men. The first was of Swedish stock, amember of the Augustana congregation, who was ad-vised by his pastor to join the English work. He is nowa judge of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. The secondwas a retired General Synod minister of the East OhioSynod, who was residing temporarily in the city. Thethird was a young man from Dayton, Ohio, who the fol-lowing year again returned East. The fourth was a Nor-wegian professor in the Augsburg Seminary, who hadmarried an English wife. The fifth was a young German,who understood English fairly well, who soon after wentfarther West. The sixth and seventh were Pennsyl- 48. Rev. P. Sjoblom, THE FIRST CONGREGATIONS 49 vanians, one from Lehighton and one from of Incorporation were entered for record onJune 8th, by which the First English Lutheran Churchin the metropolis of the Northwest gained official recog-nition. Though the number was small, it nevertheless gavethe congregation a legal existence, and when a weeklater the Lords Supper was celebrated there were alreadyten communicants and a young man was confirmed,being the first fruits of the mission. The question as to the name of the congregation waseasily solved, when the missionary called attention to thefact that one-half of his support came from the SundaySchool Association of the oldest purely English congre-gation in the country, which bore the name of St. was, therefore, unanimously decided that the firstpurely English Lutheran Church in Minneapolis shouldbear the same name, in honor of St. Johns in
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