Excerpts from the Book 'The Organization Of The Congregation In The Early Lutheran Churches In America':

... The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America. The Lutheran Church in this country has had an ...
... given by the crown to Gov. Printz, 1642, simply say: Above all things, shall the governor consider to see to it that a true and due worship, ...
... officer became the junior. The mode of election is not entirely clear. The record simply says at Bensalem: The Church Council, both Elders and Deacons, ...
... people, and they were the earliest formed among the Reformed or Lutherans, and must naturally have had an influence on their neighbors. In the Neshaminy ...
... based on the Amsterdam constitution. So that is may be said that the Amsterdam constitution, with the modifications made at London, is the ...
... and Church at Amsterdam, which assembles in a house and adheres to the genuine unaltered Augsburg Confession, prepared and established by ...
... for the poor, and to use and apply these gifts for the benefit of the poor when distinguished and wealthy Lutherans visit the place to call upon ...
... take part in the election of the pastor as well as in that of Vorsteher and there is no Consistory, but simply a meeting of the Vorsteher, in ...
... of this chapter which refers to Koster and Knapp at Amsterdam is retained, and that concerning the Ziekentrooster omitted. Chapter VI and VII ...
... [tr. note: sic] placed the congregations in their constitutions may be seen in that of the Augustus Church, 1750, hereinafter given. In 1762 ...
... purest type of Lutheran Ordnungen, and we can well discern the effect of attendance on services of worship so ordered upon Muehlenberg when he came ...
... with these men, I chose four men as vorsteher, one-half to go out each year, as has since then been the custom. 3. These elders and vorsteher, ...
... prayer, it is their duty to strive to continue in unity and intimate friendship with our spiritual fathers and patrons, and their true successors ...
... are to be sent to our reverend fathers and benefactors in Europe, or to other congregations, or our members desire testimonials for naturalization, ...
... of Brunnholtz in that he did not make the elders appointees of the pastor, but gave their election to the whole congregation. The constitution ...
... meetings of the church council, and at the election of officers, etc. 6. They shall not absent themselves from the annual general church meeting, ...
... shall be impartially followed, in the manner here described: (1.) The Elders, or two-thirds of them, shall lay before such Pastor, with gentleness, ...
... and there be publicly laid before the congregation at the meeting, and be entered in the Record. 6.) They shall attend the school examinations, and ...
... States. It was inherited by new Synods formed out of the Penna. Ministerium. It was carefully studied and its main features adopted by the preparer ...
... are so much alike that the care of the purity of the church is attributed more to the one, and that of the poor more to the other, but it is ...