The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America

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Title: The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America
Author: Beale M. Schmucker
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THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGREGATION IN THE EARLY LUTHERAN CHURCHES IN
AMERICA.
by
BEALE M. SCHMUCKER, D.D.
From the Lutheran Church Review, July, 1887.
Philadelphia: 1887.
The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America.
The Lutheran Church in this country has had an opportunity, as never before in its history, to determine for itself the whole
form of its organization, uncontrolled by any external forces. In the old world the intimate and organic union of the church
with the State left little liberty in this respect. When, therefore, the early Lutheran immigrants in this ...