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Title: Justus Falckner, mystic and scholar, devout Pietist in Germany, hermit on the Wissahickon, missionary on the Hudson : a bi-centennial memorial of the first regular ordination of an Orthodox pastor in America, done November 24, 1703, at Gloria Dei, the Swedish Lutheran church at Wicaco, Philadelphia
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919
Subjects: Falckner, Justus, 1672-1723
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed for the Author
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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ation had set in during the early years of QueenAnnes reign, which were served in their native tongue bythe zealous evangelist. This latter duty became especially onerous during theabsence of the German Pastor, Rev. Josua Kocherthal, andhis subsequent death in 1719, when the German Lutherancongregations at Quassaik, Rosenthal, Schawanggunk,Langen Rack, Newtown, Tarbush, Queensbury, Rhine-beck and Schoharie were all visited by Falckner at moreor less regular intervals. Among the papers relating to the Palatines, published invol. iii. of the Documentary History of New York, isfound the following notice: Litra B. In the Books byour Church,38 Fol. 28, is to be found that our then ministerJustus Falkenier has baptized Ao 1710 Ye 19th April inthe house of one of the Trustees, of which Time he hascontinued to serve the People there every year without anyProfit of the Glebe. That these stations were not merely small hamlets or MOn Quassaik Creek in Ulster County. The Old Qtiassaick Church. 9*
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92 Dominie Justus Falckner. isolated farm-houses, is shown by the entries in his register,as he frequently upon the same occasion baptized five, six,eight, nine or ten children. A personal account of hisministrations has fortunately been preserved to us inBiorcks Dissertatio Gradualism before mentioned, pub-lished in Swevden, 1731. Biorck there states: The care of these churches (theDutch Lutheran Churches in New York) was therefore(after the illness of Dominie Rudman) committed to

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