Excerpt from Life Sketches of Lutheran Ministers: North Carolina and Tennessee Synods, 1773-1965 Arriving in America in 1773, when events were moving toward war with England, Nussmann found himself entirely on his own. He could get no further help from his London friends. Moreover, Since the dynasty of George III had come to England from Hanover, he was cut off from the German support that he had expected. Dur ing his first fourteen years in the new world, he sought and found priestly fellow ship With the Rev. Frederick Daser Of Charlestown. Nussmann started his work in North Carolina more than a year before the First Continental Congress met and three years before Independence was declared. The fact that he had already learned to do his own thinking is evident by his giving up Catholicism for the Lutheran faith. Because he actively supported the American Patriots, he suffered physical torture from savage Tories. There were times when he had to hide to save his life. When conditions worsened in the southern states, hefeared that he would have to give up his North Carolina mission. He maintained correspondence with Henry Melchior Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America. Muhlenberg recorded in his diary that a letter from Pastor Adolph Nussmann revealed that he was eager to serve the Lord - but does - not know where - even if it were the end of the world. Muhlenberg further recorded that the Whigs in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were in a terrible manner being tortured and killed by the Britons, Tories, and Indians. 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.

A chronicle of the experiences and perceptions of a German Lutheran pastor called to serve a struggling community in the American South soon after the Revolutionary War.

Special volume celebrating a 250-year-old American church body In 1748 six Lutheran pastors and laity from ten congregations gathered in Philadelphia under German missionary pastor Henry Melchior Muhlenberg to form the Ministerium of Pennsylvania the first Lutheran church body in North America. These early American Lutherans stood at the crossroads of Lutheran orthodoxy, pietism, and rationalism as they faced the very new, very American challenge of forging a missional, confessional identity within their increasingly pluralistic and multi-religious society. Now, more than 250 years later, this choice selection of essays, addresses, and other pieces celebrates the ongoing legacy of the Ministerium and will allow churches in the twenty-first century to glean new wisdom from a pioneering colonial church body.