History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ds into the General Synodbetween 1K42-1K60 with its mild emphasis upon no symbol butthe Augsburg Confession, while the Synods in the West whichwere requiring acceptance of the other Symbolical Books werefailing to unite, seemed to indicate that the less doctrinal basisthe more likelihood of coming to stand together. It was evenhoped that the time had come when all Protestants might bebrought together into some confedera
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ds into the General Synodbetween 1K42-1K60 with its mild emphasis upon no symbol butthe Augsburg Confession, while the Synods in the West whichwere requiring acceptance of the other Symbolical Books werefailing to unite, seemed to indicate that the less doctrinal basisthe more likelihood of coming to stand together. It was evenhoped that the time had come when all Protestants might bebrought together into some confederation. A writing of S. Schmucker ( [83] ) of this character gave the impulse for 131 THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF SYNODS the coming into existence in London (1846) of the EvangelicalAlliance, which acknowledges him as its father and whichstill calls upon all Protestants to unite annually in observing atleast a Week of Prayer. (5) The Attitude of Great Leaders. Prof. S. S. Schmucker, (1799-1873), the saviour of the General Synod in 1825, thefounder of the Seminary at Gettysburg, and its first and onlypresident for forty years, was a graduate of the Presbyterian. REV. BENJAMIN KURTZ, PROF. SAMUEL SPRECHER, , Seminary at Princeton. He was a pietist, but grew less friendlyin his later years to the Confessions. He was a co-author withthe following leaders of the Definite Platform, a proposedrevised and Americanized Augsburg Confession; the author offorty-four scholarly books and pamphlets in defense of hisMelanchthonian view of Lutheranism, and the guiding hand inthe preparation of many liturgical forms and synodical docu-ments. Dr. Benjamin Kurt.:, (1795-1865), grandson of NickolasKurtz, Muhlenbergs early assistant, founder of the school atSelinsgrove and for awhile a professor there, was for twenty-eight years editor of the Lutheran Observer, our leading Church132 CHURCH PRACTICES Paper. He was an unusually learned and earnest advocate in itscolumns a
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