Preliminary Results as Contained in the Eleventh Census Bulletins

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United States Census Printing Office, 1891
 

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Seite 11 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Seite 19 - States, the chief of which are the Reformed Church in America and the Reformed Church in the United States.
Seite 5 - Christ over nations, to the doctrine of "public social covenanting," to the exclusive use of the Psalms in singing, to restricted communion in the use of the sacraments, and to the principle of "dissent from all immoral civil institutions;" but allows its members to decide for themselves whether the Government of this country should be regarded as an immoral institution, and thus determine what duties of citizenship devolve upon them. They may, therefore, exercise the franchise and hold office, provided...
Seite 1 - Pennsylvania, with the Rev. Justus Falckner, who was ordained in this country by the Swedes, as its first pastor. In 1710 a large number of exiled Palatines settled in New York and Pennsylvania, and in 1734 a colony of Salzburgers planted the Lutheran faith in Georgia. While immigration brought many Lutherans to this country, they were in a scattered and unorganized condition until the arrival of the Rev. Henry M.
Seite 5 - Assembly, at an early period of its sessions, declared its desire to establish cordial fraternal relations with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, commonly known as the Southern Assembly, on the basis of Christian honor, confidence and love, and with a view to the attainment of this end appointed a Committee of five ministers and four elders to confer with a similar Committee, if it should be appointed by the Assembly then in session at Louisville...
Seite 14 - VIII. We accept and acknowledge the doctrines of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession in its original sense as throughout in conformity with the pure truth of which God's Word is the only rule. We accept its statements of truth as in perfect accordance with the Canonical Scriptures; we reject the errors it condemns, and believe that all which it commits to the liberty of the Church of right belongs to that liberty.
Seite 23 - ... smaller streams in the western part of the area many communities of bur oak are making a "last stand" against the rigors of a prairie climate. A community of this kind may be found on the upland bordering the Elkhorn river about 6 miles southeast of Norfolk. Bur oak cannot grow on the low sandhills on the south side of the river. But on the north side in a soil with higher water content a shallow ravine is filled with small, scrubby bur oak. Table 6 gives the size and the age of four of the smaller...
Seite 1 - Ministerium of Pennsylvania. In 1786 the second synod, the Ministerium of New York, was formed. The recent extraordinary growth of the Lutheran communion in this country is due in part to immigration from Lutheran countries. A large proportion of Lutherans are either German immigrants or the offspring of German immigrants. There are also large bodies of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Lutherans, with a number from Finland and other European countries.
Seite 5 - ... upon them. They may, therefore, exercise the franchise and hold office, provided they do not in these civil acts violate the principle that forbids .connection with immoral institutions. Many of them do participate in elections. Negotiations for the union of the General Synod and the Synod failed in 1890, because the latter would not agree to a basis which interpreted the phrase "incorporate with the political body" as meaning "such incorporation as involves sinful compliance with the religious...
Seite 14 - ... forth none other than its system of doctrine, and articles of faith, are of necessity pure and scriptural. Pre-eminent among such accordant, pure, and scriptural statements of doctrine, by their intrinsic excellence, by the great and necessary ends for which they were prepared, by their historical position, and by the general judgment of the Church, are these: The Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Catechisms of Luther, and the Formula of Concord, all of which are,...

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