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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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horns grow up, injuring the good soil and making neglect-ful servants suffer for their Indolence, with soreness andwounding of hands which were unwilling to be instru-mental in nurturing those plants of the Heavenly Father. And because we firmly believe that you still bear ahearty affection towards our little Christian Congregation,we, in all due Respect, will on this good occasion give youbriefly to understand the situation and condition of oursaid Congregation. It is well known to you respectively that, since the deathof the sainted Mr. Bernhardus Arentius, we have beenmany years without Pastor. Hence it is that our Congre-gation has become dispersed, the young people and manyof the older ones have gone over to the so-called ReformedSect, until, three years ago, at our request, a Swedish min-ister, Mr. Andreas Rudmann from Pennsylvania, cameover but remained with us only a little over a year on HIm O r-D m > 2 05 O H I 6 O ? 5^ co COH30 mmH > CO Hm 3D o>
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Reports to Amsterdam. 83 account of the opportunity calling him elsewhere. Hedid, however, not leave us until by his zeal he had per-suaded another person, who had already been living forsome years in this country, to have himself at our formalrequest and call appointed as our present regular Pastor.He is by birth a German, from Saxony, where he studiedTheology, and was, according to Christian custom andhabit of our Evangelical Church, ordained to the holyOffice by the Swedish Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsyl-vania, on the 24th of November 1703. He has been withus now for nearly two years, and fills his office in such amanner that neither we nor anyone else has anything toremark on his life and work. Our congregation here is very small, because its mem-bers are dispersed far and near throughout the country;the majority of them are poor and many, especially theyoung people, ignorant on account of the lack of Bibles,Catechisms, Psalm and Hymn books, and it would be ofgreat service here t

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