American Lutheranism

Renew：Volume II Part 8
Author：Friedrich Bente
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：Religion Spirituality
Description：American Lutheranism summary: American Lutheranism summary is updating. Come visit Novelonlinefull.com sometime to read the latest chapter of American Lutheranism. If you have any question about this novel, Please don't hesitate to contact us or translate team. Hope you enjoy it.

Read Now

Chapter List

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter XVI of the const.i.tution adopted 1829 for the District Synods, the annual Special Conferences were to meet for two days, especially in order "by practical preaching to awaken and convert sinners and to edify believers." (41.) In the following year the Hartwick Synod was organized, in order more fully to satisfy the craving of their members for revivals. At the convention of the General Synod at Frederick, 1831, a committee reported that the Hartwick Synod, having unanimously voted to join the General Synod, was divided into two conferences which were to meet as often as possible, and whose chief business it was "by earnest and practical sermons to awaken and convert sinners, and to encourage and edify Christians." (9.) At Baltimore, 1833, the Ohio Synod was censured for certain utterances against the "new measures" adopted within the General Synod. Finding revivalism in the Hartwick Synod not advanced enough, a few of its members, in 1837, organized the Franckean Synod, in order to press "new measures" to the extreme. On the Hartwick Synod the withdrawal acted as an impulse for a greater activity in the same direction. At Chambersburg, 1839, a committee reported on the meeting of this synod held in 1838: "We take particular pleasure in remarking that the proceedings of this Synod, especially the statements contained in the annual address of its President, afford the most satisfactory evidence that this Synod is decidedly in favor of revivals of religion. Protracted meetings have been held in various parts, and the Lord has especially blessed them; from which we have reason to believe that true and undefiled religion is more and more abounding within its limits. All the religious operations of the day, such as Tract Societies, Temperance Societies, etc., etc., enjoy the hearty support of this Synod." (13.) The minutes of the General Synod, of the District Synods, the _Lutheran Observer_, etc., soon began to teem with reports on revivals, visitations, outpourings, refreshing showers, etc. (_L. u. W._ 1857, 27.) At the convention of the Maryland Synod in Frederick, 1842, Harkey proposed the publication of the _Revivalist_, a monthly to be devoted to the history and defense of revivals, revival intelligence, the best measures and means of promoting and managing revivals--a plan which Synod declined as "inexpedient." At the same convention B. Kurtz, the advocate of the wildest revivalism, succeeded in having a committee appointed to draft a minute expressive of the views of Synod in regard to "new measures." The report was discussed for two days, when it was referred back to the committee, and at the next meeting of Synod the committee was excused from further consideration of the subject. (Spaeth 1, 111.) As late as 1876 the _American Lutheran_ declared that the great majority of the pastors and congregations of the General Synod favored revivals; that they managed them on the lines of those conducted by Moody and Sankey; that some of the congregations employed sectarian preachers for protracted meetings. (_L. u. W._ 1876, 182.) When, in 1877, the _American Lutheran_ merged into the _Observer_, Dr. Conrad solemnly promised to continue defending revivalism. (_L. u. W._ 1877, 60.) In 1908, referring to revivals still occasionally reported in the _Observer_, the _Lutherische Herold_ remarked that this sort of enthusiasm, formerly the rule in the Eastern and Central States, had as yet not nearly died out, _e. g._, in the General Synod congregations of Eastern and Central Pennsylvania. (_L. u. W._ 1908, 322.) Down to 1918 occasional revivals were held or partic.i.p.ated in by congregations and ministers of the General Synod. Several years ago Rev. Bell cooperated in a revival conducted by Billy Sunday in Toledo, etc. According to _Church Work and Observer_, November 9, 1916, the General Synod church at Gettysburg, Pa., conducted a joint revival with Presbyterians, Methodists, and United Brethren.
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15