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Title: History of all the religious denominations in the United States : containing authentic accounts of the rise and progress, faith and practice, localities and statistics, of the different persuasions ..
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Subjects: Christian sects Christianity
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : John Winebrenner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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s, unless Boston bean exception. We have no ecclesiastical authorities inAmerica, other than the congregationsthemselves. Each congregation makes itsown rules for its government, and electsits own minister, who is appointed withoutany ordination, induction in office beingmade through his election, which is madefor a term of years or during good beha-vior, as it may meet the wish of the ma-jority. As yet we have no colleges orpublic schools of any kind, with the ex-ception of one in New York, under thedirection of the Rev. Samuel M. Isaacs,one in Baltimore, and another in Cincin-nati, and Sunday schools for religious in-struction in New York, Philadelphia, Rich-mond, Charleston, Columbia, S. C, Sa-vannah, and Cincinnati. There can be nodoubt that something will be done for edu-cation, as soon as we have become morenumerous. The American Jews have butone religious periodical, and this is printedin Philadelphia; it is called The Occi-dent and American Jewish Advocate, andappears monthly.
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.. - ■ - . Liik-oFP S.Duval, Phuad? AMTHIT ILiHJT53HM UI8T0RY OP Tin: BVANOBLICAL LUTHERAN CHI RCH. 819 In .ill our congregations where the ne-. demands it, then- are ample pro-visions made for the support of the poor,and we endeavor to prevent, if possible,;m\ Israelite from being sent to the poorhouse, or to sink into crime for want pfthe means of subsistence.Upon the whole, we have increased inrespect within the last five years j and we invoke the i>l< -ml of I (eaven thatNo may prosper onv undertakinggive us the meant to _ri\\ bo grace andpiety, thai we may be able to show theworld the true effects of tin- law of Godupon the lift of a sincere Israelite, whichmust render him acceptable to his neigh-bors of every creed, and a worthy servantin the mansion of bis heavenly rather*. HISTORY OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH.* BY S. S. SCHMUCKER, D. D., GETTYSBURG, PA. The name of Martin Luther, now fami-liar to almost every schoolboy, forms oneof the most prominent waymarks in

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