Excerpt from History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 of 2: Together With a Topical Handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Its Ancestry, Origin and Development The appearances of works like this mark the dawn of a happier day in the Lutheran Church of America. They are the evidences of an awakening to larger and better things, and are themselves both the expression and the earnest of a new and more virile life in our communities. We have had all too few authors in our ranks. There has been an overplus of modesty, a decrying of publicity, both of which at length we are very properly overcoming. The organic life of the Church is bound to find expression. It owes to the world a forthshadowing. It must live its life uncloistered. We, too, like the first century folk, are "witnesses of these things." To be sympathetic, and at the same time keen and discriminating witnesses, with the facile pen as well as the fluent voice, is surely worthy of all effort. Just now there is the special call thrust upon us as a Church by the Luther anniversary for a mobilizing of our history. We need to hew out of its inexhaustibly rich mines material for our own building. Structure stuff for our age is to be had in multiform variety and workableness in the Reformation. It needs restating and adjustment. All efforts of the kind of our author's are, therefore, to be accredited. They have their place. The historic consciousness in recent years has experienced a general quickening. The Church here, too, must fall in line that it may be competent not only as an analyst, but also as an interpreter whose facts are martialed and whose philosophy is unmistaken. The present flux of things makes all the more essential. our grasp of a real continuity in our faith and its historic achievements. Lutheran Christianity at least is something more than a Don Quixote sallying forth to some jocund joust at his own sweet will. We have a solid work to do. For the task of it we need all possible light from both past and present. This brings to the front a unique and valuable feature of Mr. W. H. B. Carney's volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 of 2: Together With a Topical Handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Its Ancestry, Origin and Development In 1844, a Lutheran church was built, forty feet square, a frame structure. Rev. J. A. Nuner, yet a licentiate, served the people for about a year, 1845-1846. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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