History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . pparently fatal anddecisive step. The epochal Convention was at York. Pa. The new FranckeanSynod of New York State, through its delegates, asked for admit-tance to the General Synod. Unfortunately their Constitutionmade no reference to Lutheran doctrines or the Augsburg Con-fession. Upon the assurance of the delegates that the oversightwould be remedied at their next Convention, the new Synod wasadmitted. The delegates
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . pparently fatal anddecisive step. The epochal Convention was at York. Pa. The new FranckeanSynod of New York State, through its delegates, asked for admit-tance to the General Synod. Unfortunately their Constitutionmade no reference to Lutheran doctrines or the Augsburg Con-fession. Upon the assurance of the delegates that the oversightwould be remedied at their next Convention, the new Synod wasadmitted. The delegates from the Ministerium opposed andclaimed that in so doing the General Synod had violated its own 141 THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF SYNODS Constitution, and therefore they must withdraw from the furthersessions. On account of their withdrawal, when the General Synodmet again, in 1866, at Fort Wayne, Ind., the president. , ruled that the delegates sent from the Ministeriumcould not be received as such until after the election of the newSynodical officers. They refused to submit to this ruling, returnedand reported to the Ministerium. At its meeting in Lancaster,. REV. CHARLES PORTERFIELD KRAUTH, December, 1866, it formally severed its connection with theGeneral Synod, and issued a call to other Synods to unite withit in forming a new and more strictly Lutheran general body. Fundamental Principles of doctrine were adopted whichrequire the acceptance of the Unaltered Augsburg Confessionand all the other Symbolical Books in their own true, native,original and only sense. The Joint Synod of Ohio, which hadsent delegates, asked for a declaration also on the followingPour Points/ The Synod of Iowa also desired a declarationon the last three of them. They are: 1. Chiliasm. 2. AltarFellowship. 3. Pulpit Fellowship. 4. Secret Societies. In 1872, at Akron, the Council adopted the Akron Rule,which declared concerning Points 2 and 3, the following:142 THE GENERAL COlXCIL \. Th
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