BALTIMORE: T. NEWTON KURTZ. PHILADELPHIA: E. W. MILLER. GETTYSBURG: A. D. BUEHLER 1867. [[@Page:ii]] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by S. S. SCHMUCKER in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. J. FAGAN & SON, STEREOTYPERS, PHILAD’A. PRINTED BY SHERMAN & CO. [[@Page:iii]] PREFACE. The origin of this volume was somewhat peculiar. It has several times happened, that the appointed speakers of the in the United States, whose Historical Society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church meetings coincide with those of the General Synod, have failed to meet their appointments. This was naturally unpleasant to the Society, as well as mortifying to the writer as its present president. To prevent a similar disappointment, he resolved, several months before the late meeting of the General Synod at Fort Wayne, to prepare a Lecture to be delivered as a volunteer exercise, in case the appointee should again fail. As to a suitable subject for such exercise, the frequent late attacks on the General Synod did not permit him to hesitate. An ardent friend of this General Union of the Synods from its incipiency, he was [[@Page:iv]]willing to step forward in its defence, and having been present as a visitor at Baltimore in 1819, when the formation of such a body was first the subject of synodical discussion, and at Hagerstown in 1820, when the constitution was discussed and adopted; present as a member of the body in 1823, and either as a member or visitor at every meeting held since, the writer may, without vanity or presumption, profess to be acquainted with its design, history and spirit, and may ask a hearing in its behalf.
BALTIMORE: T. NEWTON KURTZ. PHILADELPHIA: E. W. MILLER. GETTYSBURG: A. D. BUEHLER 1867. [[@Page:ii]] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by S. S. SCHMUCKER in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. J. FAGAN & SON, STEREOTYPERS, PHILAD’A. PRINTED BY SHERMAN & CO. [[@Page:iii]] PREFACE. The origin of this volume was somewhat peculiar. It has several times happened, that the appointed speakers of the Historical Society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States, whose meetings coincide with those of the General Synod, have failed to meet their appointments. This was naturally unpleasant to the Society, as well as mortifying to the writer as its present president. To prevent a similar disappointment, he resolved, several months before the late meeting of the General Synod at Fort Wayne, to prepare a Lecture to be delivered as a volunteer exercise, in case the appointee should again fail. As to a suitable subject for such exercise, the frequent late attacks on the General Synod did not permit him to hesitate. An ardent friend of this General Union of the Synods from its incipiency, he was [[@Page:iv]]willing to step forward in its defence, and having been present as a visitor at Baltimore in 1819, when the formation of such a body was first the subject of synodical discussion, and at Hagerstown in 1820, when the constitution was discussed and adopted; present as a member of the body in 1823, and either as a member or visitor at every meeting held since, the writer may, without vanity or presumption, profess to be acquainted with its design, history and spirit, and may ask a hearing in its behalf.
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