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...uniform of a colonel of the Continental Army. The congregation cheered. That day Pastor Muhlenberg gained 300 recruits to his 8th Virginia regiment, called "the German regiment" and a model of efficiency. Colonel Muhlenberg, son of a German who in 1748 organized the first American Lutheran federation, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, had gone to Woodstock in 1772 after journeying to England to be ordained an Anglican minister, since the Colony's laws required that all its ministers, no matter what their sect, be nominally of the Established Church. A member of that province's House of Burgesses, Muhlenberg fought...
...Ministerium, The oldest Lutheran body in the U. S., the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States (213,065 members), opened its 195th convention in Philadelphia, then moved to Atlantic City. The Ministerium's pleasure in learning that its income had risen for the first time in six years was tempered by the realization that the rise amounted to iff per week per member. In his annual report President Ernest Philip Pfatteicher flayed much, including the "growing practice" of holding funerals in funeral parlors, which he called "a step backward from the Christian standpoint." President Pfatteicher also observed...
That was in 1787, when Philadelphia convicts were commonly chained to barrows, forced to work in the streets. The Episcopal Church of Bishop White, the Lutheran Ministerium of Dr. Rogers and the Society of Friends joined in founding the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, dedicated to the then radical proposal that "such degrees and modes of punishment may be discovered and suggested as may, instead of continuing habits of vice, become the means of restoring our fellow citizens to virtue and happiness." Once admitted to work in prisons, the Society flourished, changed its name...
...oldest prison reform group in the world, the oldest organized charity in the U. S., the Prison Society last week celebrated its 150th birthday with vesper services at Old Christ Church, with Bishop Francis Marion Taitt representing the Episcopal Church, President Ernst Philip Píatteicher the Lutheran Ministerium, Secretary William B. Harvey the Orthodox Friends...
...committee report proposed that the 13 theological seminaries of the United Lutheran Church be merged, for economy, into five strategic centres across the country. This proposal was put over until this week, as also was one made by the ministerium of Pennsylvania (oldest, largest synod in the church) objecting to the birth control pronouncements of the Federal Council of Churches and urging that the Lutherans withdraw from their consultative membership...
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