The Lutherans of New York, Their Story and Their Problems

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Lutheran Education Society of New York. For the promotion of higher education within the Atlantic and Eastern Districts of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri. Pastor Karl Kretzmann, Secretary.

Manhattan Sunday School Institute, 1908. 15 schools. Enrollment, 495 teachers.

English Lutheran Missionary Society of Brooklyn, 1898. Reports establishment of 16 churches in Brooklyn and Long Island.

Luther League of New York City. Enrollment, 1,100 members.

American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 234 East 62d Street.

Lutheran Bureau, Inc., A National Medium for Information and Service.

The Bureau grew out of the celebration of the Reformation Quadricentennial. Its lines of activity embrace a lecture bureau, a news service and an information service.

In the last it offers information on the best methods of doing church work, culling the best experience in the field of service and placing it at the disposal of anyone desiring it.

In the lecture bureau and the news service it is stimulating Lutherans to study the problems of the hour and it is creating opportunities for them to be heard.

The office is located in the Bank of the Metropolis Building, Union Square, New York. President, George D. Boschen; Treasurer, Theodore H. Lamprecht; Executive Secretary, O. H. Pannkoke.

National Lutheran Commission for Soldiers' and Sailors' Welfare, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York. Chairman, Rev. Frederick H. Knubel, D.D.

Periodicals

Der Lutherische Herold, founded in 1852, by Henry Ludwig.

Der Sonntagsgast, founded 1872. Editor: Pastor Wenner.

The New York Lutheran, founded 1903. Editor: Pastor Brunn.

Der Deutsche Lutheraner, founded 1909. Continuation of Der Lutherische Herold. Editor: Pastor Berkemeier.

The Luther League Review. Editor, E. F. Eilert.

The American Lutheran. Editor: Pastor Lindemann.

Inner Missions. Inner Mission Society.

Bookstores

Lutheran Publication Society, 150 Nassau Street.

Ernst Kaufmann, 22 North William Street.

Augustana Book Concern, 132 Nassau Street.

Bibliography * *_Many of the books to which reference is here made may be found in the Public Library of New York. Others are obtainable in college and seminary libraries_.

_Morris_, Bibliotheca Lutherana.

_Jacobs and Haas_, Lutheran Cyclopedia.

Distinctive Doctrines and Usages of the Lutheran Church.

_Neve_, Die wichtigsten Unterscheidungsmerkmale der lutherischen Synoden Amerikas.

_Richard_, Confessional History of the Lutheran Church.

_Schmauk_ and _Benze_, The Confessional Principle and the Confessions of the Lutheran Church.

_Kolde_, Historische Einleitung in die Symbolische Buecher.

_Krauth_, The Conservative Reformation.

_Stahl_, Die lutherische Kirche und die Union.

Book of Concord. In German and Latin: _Mueller_. In English: _Jacobs_.

_Walther_, Amerikanisch-Lutherische Pastoral Theologie.

_Rohnert_, Dogmatik.

_Gerberding_, The Way of Salvation.

_Remensnyder_, The Lutheran Manual.

Ecclesiastical Records State of New York.

(Hallesche) Nachrichten.

Colonial Documents of New York.

Brodhead, History of New Netherland.

O'Callaghan, Documentary History of the State of New York.

Memorial Volume of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of Hartwick Seminard, [sic] held August 21, 1866. Albany, 1867.

_Lamb_, History of the City of New York.

_Booth_, History of the City of New York.

_Greenleaf_, History of the Churches of New York.

_Graebner_, Geschichte der Lutherischen Kirche in America.

_Haeberle_, Auswanderung der Pfaelzer im 18. Jahrhundert. Kaiserslautern, 1909.

_Eichhorn_, In der neuen Heimath.

_Kapp_, Geschichte der Deutschen im Staate New York.

_Gotwald_, The Teutonic Factor in American History. (Lutheran Church Review, 1902.)

_Graebner_, Half a Century of Sound Lutheranism in America.

_Nicum_, Geschichte des New York Ministeriums.

_Lenker_, Lutherans in All Lands.

_Jacobs_, A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States.

_Schmucker, B. M._, The Lutheran Church in New York during the First Century of its History. (Lutheran Church Review, 1884-1885.)

_Francis_, Old New York.

_Disosway_, Earliest Churches of New York.

_Sachse_: Justus Falckner.

_Mann_: H. M. Muehlenberg.

_Roesener_: Johann Heinrich Sieker.

_Sprague_: Annals of the American Lutheran Pulpit.

_Bendixen_: Bilder aus der letzten religioesen Erweckung in Deutschland. Leipzig, 1897.

_Schaefer_: Wilhelm Loehe. (Also other lives of Loehe).

_Baur_: Geschichts-und Lebensbilder aus der Erneuerung des religioesen Lebins in den deutschen Befreiungskriegen.

_Stevenson_: Praying and Working.

(_Rocholl_): Einsame Wege.

_Wichern_, Die innere Mission.

_Ohl_, The Inner Mission.

_Kretzmann_, Oldest Lutheran Church in America.

(_Clarkson_), Church of Zion and St. Timothy.

(_Young_), St. John's Church in Christopher Street.

_Kraeling_, Unser Zion (Brooklyn), 1905.

(_Merkel_), Dreieinigkeits-Gemeinde, Long Island City.

_Kandelhart_, Bethlehems-Gemeinde, Brooklyn, 1913.

_Beyer_, St. Johannes-Gemeinde, Brooklyn, 1894.

_Borth_, St. Johannes-Gemeinde, Port Richmond, 1902.

Jubilee of the Church of St. James, 1877.

Geschichte der Kirche zu St. Markus, 1897. (Manh.)

Zum Fuenfzigjaehrigem Jubilaeum der St. Lukas Gemeinde, 1900. (Manh.)

Zum Goldenen Jubilaeum. (St. Peter's Church, Manhattan), 1912.

Geschichtliche Skizze zum Goldenen Jubilaeum der Immanuelskirche zu Yorkville, 1913.

_Steup_, Geschichtliche Skizze der St. Johannes-Gemeinde zu Harlem, New York, 1889.

(_Peterson_), Zum Goldenen Jubilaeum, Dreieinigkeits-Gemeinde, Middle Village, 1913.

Statistisches Jahrbuch. (Missouri Synod).

Lutheran Church Year Book.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac.

Federation. New York Federation of Churches.

Charities Directory. Charity Organization Society.

Index

"Achtundvierziger" .....35 Arensius ...............39 Athens .................99 Baptismal Regeneration..101 Berkemeier, G. C........40 Berkemeier, W. H........39 Berkenmeyer.............9 Book of Concord.........XI, 41 Brohm, Pastor...........34 "Buffalonians"..........33 Catechization ..........109 Concordia College.......61 Confirmation............98 Cox, Dr. S. H...........20 Church Bookkeeping......124 Church Defined..........94 Deaconesses.............52 Dutch Language..........80 Ehrhardt, Julius........65 Embury, Philip..........22 English Language........83 Episcopalians...........25 Ericsson, Captain John..44 Fabritius...............3 Falckner................5 Francis, Dr.............20 Geissenhainer, Sr.......26 Geissenhainer, Jr.......27, 64 German Language.........81 Goedel, Jacob...........42 Grabau, Pastor..........31 Gutwasser...............3 Hartwick Seminary.......62 Hartwig.................21 Hausihl.................13 Heck, Barbara...........22 Held, A. H. M...........64 Hessians................14 High German.............84 Holls, G. C.............40 Hospice.................62 Inner Mission...........120 Inner Mission Society...62 Jewish Schools..........111 Jogues..................1 Justification by Faith..XIV, XV Knoll...................10 Kocherthal..............6 Koinonia................51 Krotel..................65 Kunze...................16 Kurtz, Dr. B............32 Laidlaw.................56 London..................79 Loonenburg..............9 Louis the Fourteenth....6 Lutheran Society........62 Lutheranism.............VIII Luther League...........51 Manhattan...............61 Martin Luther Society...50 Mayer, P. and F.........21 Means of Grace..........XVI Meldenius, Rupertus.....IV Methodists..............23 Metropolitan District...76 Merger..................78 Miller, C. Armand.......66 Ministers' Association..58 "Missourians"...........33 Moldenke................65 Moller, Peter...........39 Muehlenberg, F..........12 Muehlenberg, H. M.......11 Muehlenberg, P..........6 Muhlenberg, W. A........7 Neumann, R..............38 Norwegians..............45 Oertel, Maximilian......31 Old Swamp Church........12 Palatines...............6 Parochial School........107 Passavant...............39 Pennsylvania Dutch......87 Person of Christ........XIV Platt Deutsch...........82 Prussia, King of........32 Psalmodia Germanica.....12 Public Library..........125 Russian Lutherans.......114 Rhinebeck...............18 Rudmann, A..............5 Scandinavians...........47 Schaeffer, F. C.........26 Schieren, Chas. A.......57 Sieker, J. H............65 Steimle Synod...........41 St. Stephen's Church....25 St. James' Church.......27 St. Matthew's Church....26 Stohlmann...............37, 64 Strebeck................18 Sunday School...........106 Swedes..................41 Trinity Church..........9 Upsala College..........61 Vorleezers..............8 Wagner College..........61 Week-Day Instruction....110 Wedekind................64 Weiser..................6 Weltner.................67 Wesley, John............23 Weygand.................12 Williston...............25 Winkeltaufe.............100 Young, J. J.............66 Zenger, Peter...........7 Zion Church.............18

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