English Lutheranism in the Northwest / y George Henry Trabert . English missionary was well ac-quainted, and who before his ordination frequently at-tended the English services, openly acknowledged whatbenefit the method of the English pastors in doing mis-sionary work had been to him. He said, I never knewthe meaning of the words of Christ in Luke 14 : 23, wherehe says: Go out into the highways and hedges andcompel them to come in, until I saw how you did mis-sionary work. It was the general custom not to callon the people except in case of sickness, or when a childwas to be baptized, or some
English Lutheranism in the Northwest / y George Henry Trabert . English missionary was well ac-quainted, and who before his ordination frequently at-tended the English services, openly acknowledged whatbenefit the method of the English pastors in doing mis-sionary work had been to him. He said, I never knewthe meaning of the words of Christ in Luke 14 : 23, wherehe says: Go out into the highways and hedges andcompel them to come in, until I saw how you did mis-sionary work. It was the general custom not to callon the people except in case of sickness, or when a childwas to be baptized, or some other special pastoral workwas necessary; whereas, the English pastors did house tohouse visiting, calling again and again on the unchurched,getting their children into the Sunday school, and trying no ENGLISH LUTHERANISM IN THE NORTHWEST to remain in touch with all the people interested bysystematic visitations. Today the same method isemployed by all the younger ministers of the differentnationalities, and the result is a more rapid extension ofthe Holy Trinity Church, Seattle CHAPTER XV THE SYNOD OF THE NORTHWEST The idea of the Rev. W. A. Passavant, D. D., wasthat an entirely English Synod should in the course oftime be developed in the Northwest. He reasoned that,inasmuch as the English congregations would necessarilybe composed of the representatives or descendants of allnationalities, it would be impractical for them to beunited with any particular Synod speaking a foreign tongue,be it Swedish, Norwegian or German. When the firstmissionary was on his way to inspect the field in April,1882, he stopped over in Pittsburgh, the headquarters ofthe General Council Home Mission Committee, where theDoctor gave him special instructions as to the course tobe pursued in the organizing of the English work, andthat a separate English Synod would in a few years growup on the territory. This has already been touched uponin Chapter III. When the missionary reached Minneapolis,
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