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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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© .OMINIE FALCK-NER at once madepreparations to enter uponhis new field of labor. Hearrived in New York cityon Thursday, the secondof December, or just eightdays after his ordination.After preaching on thethird and fourth Sundaysin Advent, he was acceptedas their regular pastor bythe oldest Lutheran con-gregation in America.Immediately upon hisacceptance of the charge Dominie Falckner deposited hisdiploma of ordination among the archives of the church.Unfortunately, this, together with other documents of thecolonial period deposited within the church, are now miss-ing, and have evidently long since been lost or destroyed. (72)
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In New York, 73 Possibly no document has been so diligently and per-sistently sought for by historians and investigators thanthis diploma, as its historical value to the Lutheran andProtestant Episcopal Church can hardly be overestimated.The search, however, seemed hopeless, although reportswere repeatedly made, notably by a western writer, that thecoveted document had been seen and in one instance se-cured. Upon investigation, however, these stories proveddelusive. During the past summer, however, it was the good for-tune of the writer to examine a number of papers, sent toHolland by the New York Congregation, among which wasa copy of this very document in Justus Falckners ownhandwriting together with the correspondence which ledto his acceptance of the charge, also a minute account ofthe affairs as they were during his pastorate. DOM. FALCKNERS NOTICE TO AMSTERDAM CONSISTORY. One of the first official acts performed by Dominie Falck-ner after his arrival in New York, was to send a r

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