Lutheran landmarks and pioneers in America : a series of sketches of colonial times . appychoice of text and we shall quote the words in full. Butit shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, notday nor night; but it shall come to pass, that at eveningtime it shall be light. After the sermon he made anaddress in English, for the benefit of those who had notunderstood the sermon. He had been in America but fivemonths, and how was it possible that he could make anaddress in the English tongue? He had wisely begun thestudy of English in his university course at Gottingen,and even there ac
Lutheran landmarks and pioneers in America : a series of sketches of colonial times . appychoice of text and we shall quote the words in full. Butit shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, notday nor night; but it shall come to pass, that at eveningtime it shall be light. After the sermon he made anaddress in English, for the benefit of those who had notunderstood the sermon. He had been in America but fivemonths, and how was it possible that he could make anaddress in the English tongue? He had wisely begun thestudy of English in his university course at Gottingen,and even there acquired sufficient knowledge of the lan-guage to write an essay of considerable length in his way to America he stopped several months inLondon. This stay gave him the opportunity of gettinga practical knowledge of the language. On board thevessel across the ocean he often spoke to the passengersand crew in English on Scriptural subjects and held servicesfor them. The first address that he delivered on Americansoil was in the English language and spoken near the city 112. 53 U THE OLD TRAPPE CHURCH of Charleston on his way to Savannah. This shows ushow well equipped Muhlenberg was for his work inAmerica. Later on he learned to understand Swedishand to preach in Dutch. At the time of the corner stone laying the church wasnamed Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church, in honorof Augustus Herman Francke and his son, GotthilfAugustus Francke, the founders of the famous HalleOrphan House and the Worlds Missionary Institute, andthe friends and promoters of the Canstein Foreign BibleSociety founded in 1710. The foundation of the church was made large andsubstantial. The measurements were fifty-four feet longand thirty-nine feet wide. The walls were built highenough for galleries. The building was covered with ahip roof and the south end was made semi-hexagonal inshape. The north and west sides were furnished with por-ticoes. These features give it a peculiar colonial appear-anc
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