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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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a/tuM JaXtxnv/ could extend their usefulness in educating and ministeringto their neglected countrymen in Pennsylvania and Vir-ginia. Another important scheme then under consideration wasthe emigration of the members of the PhiladetyhianSociety 7 in a body from England and the continent tosettle in Pennsylvania, and there found a colony wheretheir peculiar teachings should be their only law. Con-siderable correspondence had taken place upon the subject,and it was thought by Kelpius and others that the timehad arrived for a consummation of the scheme. It wastherefore desirable that a thoroughly competent person 6For a full explanation ofjthis theory, vide German Pietists, pp. 37-42- 7 Philadelphischen Societat, vide German Pietists, p. 16. 26 Dominie Justus Falckner.
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Orphanage at Halle. 27 should be sent on the mission at that time. For this im-portant service Daniel Falckner was selected. He was aman of strong character and practical piety, as well as theexecutive head of the community, and, in addition to hisreligious duties, took considerable interest in secular affairs. Daniel Falckner, pursuant to the above arrangement, re-turned to Europe, as before stated, toward the close of theyear 1698 or early in the spring of 1699. After a shortsojourn in Holland, he went to Germany to visit his oldassociates. Upon his arrival in Saxony, he found thattime had wrought many changes in the condition of hisformer companions — some had been banished, otherslived in obscurity, while the former leader of the localPietistical movement, August Herman Francke, nowposed as professor of Oriental languages at the newlyestablished University of Halle,8 pastor of the suburbGlaucha, and superintendent of an orphanage of his ownprojection. Upon his arrival at Halle,

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