The Lutherans of New York, Their Story and Their Problems

by George Unangst Wenner

Produced by Prof. Kurt A. Bodling, Ganser Library, Millersville

University, Millersville, PA, USA

[Transcriber's note: A very few German names appeared in the original with umlauts. These have been transcribed as an "e". A few spelling errors in the original are indicated with a "[sic]". The original uses italics to indicate most of the German and Latin in the text, and all of the authors' names in the bibliography. Italics are transcribed with the underscore character at the beginning and end. Footnotes in the original are transcribed here in a paragraph immediately below the paragraph to which the footnote is connected. The appendix contains a table that is 102 characters wide.]

The Lutherans
of
New York

Their Story and Their Problems

BY
GEORGE U. WENNER, D.D., L.H.D.
Pastor of Christ Church

New York THE PETERSFIELD PRESS 819 East Nineteenth Street 1918

Copyright, 1918
By GEORGE U. WENNER

TO
THE LUTHERANS OF NEW YORK
IN
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
May you bring forth fruit and may your fruit remain

Contents
Apology
Introduction
Their Story
In the Seventeenth Century—1648-1700
In the Eighteenth Century—1701-1750
In the Eighteenth Century—1751-1800
In the Nineteenth Century—1801-1838
In the Nineteenth Century—1839-1865
In the Nineteenth Century—1866-1900
In the Twentieth Century—1900-1918
Their Problems
The Problem of Synods
The Problem of Language
The Problem of Membership
The Problem of Religious Education
The Problem of Lapsed Lutherans
The Problem of Statistics
Epilogue
Appendix—The Churches; Deaconesses; Former Pastors; Sons of the
Churches; Institutions and Societies; Other Associations; Periodicals;
Book-stores; Bibliography; Index.