488 



LUTHERANS. 



PARTICULAR SYNODS. 



hich Organization they 

 belong. 



Communi- 

 cants. 



1. 

 8. 

 8. 



4. 



5. 



8. 



7. 



8. 



9. 

 i;>. 

 11. 

 18. 

 18. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16; 

 17. 

 18. 

 1!). 

 20. 

 21. 

 2-2, 

 23. 

 24. 

 25. 

 26. 



27. 

 88. 

 2:). 

 30. 

 31. 

 3-3. 

 88. 

 84. 

 85. 

 88. 

 37. 

 8& 

 39. 

 40. 

 41. 

 4-2. 



43. 

 44. 

 45. 

 4(5. 

 47. 

 4S. 

 49. 

 50. 

 51. 



General Synod. . 

 Southern General Synod.. 

 General Synod 



Southern General Synod., 

 j General Council. 



l<^J^raTn1 ftirn/i/1 



Synod of Pennsylvania and adjacent States (125 years old) General Council 



Lutheran Ministerium of New York and adjacent States. ' 



Synod of North Carolina Independent 



General Synod of Ohio and other States ! Synodal Conference 



Synod of Maryland j General Synod 



Synod of Tennessee Independent.. 



Synod of South Carolina Southern General Synod. 



Synod of West Pennsylvania 



Synod of Virginia 



Hartwick Synod (in New York) 



East Ohio Synod 



Frankean Synod (in New York) 



AHeghany Synod (in Pennsylvania) 



East Pennsylvania Synod 



Synod of South West Virginia 



Pittsburg Synod , 



Miami Synod (in Ohio) General Synod 



Buffalo Synod (Grabau's) (Independent 



Buffalo Synod (Von Bohr's) | " 



Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States (Synodal Conference 



Wittenberg Synod (in Ohio) 'General Synod 



Olive-Branch Synod (in Indiana) " " 



Synod of Wisconsin Synodal Conference 



Synod of North Illinois General Synod 



Synod of Texas General Council 



Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church 



of America Synodal Conference 



Synod of Central Pennsylvania General Synod 



Synod of Iowa (German) Independent 



Synod of Iowa (English) " 



Synod of North Indiana 



Mississippi Synod 



English Districts Synod of Ohio 



Synod of South Illinois 



Augustana Synod (S wedish) 



Michigan Synod 



Synod of Minnesota 



Canada Synod 



Holston Synod (Tennessee) 



Synod of Georgia 



Synod of Illinois and other States 



Central Illinois Synod 



Evangelical Lutheran Synod of New York and New 



Jersey 



Susquehanna Synod 



Pittsburg Synod 



Concordia Synod of Virginia 



Scandinavian Synod (Eielson's) 



Kansas Synod 



Norwegian-Danish Conference 

 Norwegian-Danisl ' 

 Nebraska Synod. . 

 Indiana Synod 

 Unknown 



Total 



General Synod 



Southern General Synod.. 



General Council 



General Synod 



General Council 



Synodal Conference 



General Council 



Independent 



Southern General Synod.. 



Synodal Conference 



General Synod 



Independent .. . 



General Synod . 

 Independent. . . 



General Synod... 

 General Council.. 



152 

 70 

 18 



150 

 66 

 16 

 32 

 48 

 24 

 31 

 48 

 19 

 46 

 55 

 20 

 62 

 24 

 11 

 8 



475 

 41 

 13 

 62 

 38 

 23 



80 



31 



102 



19 



35 



9 



30 



20 



72 



20 



25 



15 



9 



9 



32 



29 



33 

 29 

 21 



4 

 17 

 26 

 36 

 11 



6 

 10 



327 

 74 

 35 



255 

 94 

 70 

 45 



108 

 57 

 33 

 82 

 33 



108 

 89 

 37 



109 

 38 

 14 

 10 



598 

 60 

 22 



130 

 59 

 24 



265 



85 

 160 

 31 

 90 

 12 

 70 

 30 

 162 

 28 

 63 

 44 

 25 

 12 

 37 

 37 



41 

 52 

 49 

 23 

 58 

 30 

 111 

 35 

 12 

 42 



63,548 

 19,104 

 3,660 

 28,991 



6,232 

 4,620 

 14,000 

 3,750 

 4266 

 6,100 

 3,402 

 8,400 



2,500 

 10,928 

 3,230 

 1,200 

 1,800 

 77,173 

 4,700 

 1,377 

 23,099 

 2,900 

 2,730 



48,000 

 6,484 



12,200 

 1,208 

 4,200 

 375 

 6,920 

 1.560 



22,500 

 3,550 

 5,402 

 4,272 

 2,550 

 1,050 

 4,408 

 2,800 



2,309 I 4,115 I 485,085 



The sixth annual session of the General 

 Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 

 was held in Akron, O., commencing Novem- 

 ber 7th. The Treasurer reported a balance of 

 funds amounting to $2,090.65. This officer was 

 instructed to endeavor to procure the necessary 

 legislation to make the corporate title of the 

 General Council as given in its charter conform 

 with its title in the constitution. Reports 

 were received from the synods, stating their 

 proceedings upon the form of a constitution for 

 congregations. No report expressed the defi- 

 nite acceptance of the constitution by the 

 synod : in some, modifications were suggested ; 

 by others, it appeared that the subject was 

 under consideration. The New York Minis- 

 terium prepared a constitution of its own. A 

 new committee was appointed, to wliich the 

 form of constitution already framed, with 

 those constitutions already sent in, and others 

 that might be received, were to be referred. 

 The committee were also instructed to prepare 



another constitution, of which copies in Eng- 

 lish and German were to be distributed for 

 examination. In this constitution the parts 

 which are essential are to be distinguished 

 from those parts which may be changed with 

 the various circumstances of the case. The 

 following declaration of doctrine was adopted, 

 and ordered to be embodied in the constitu- 

 tion : 



Of the Congregation. This congregation receive-s 

 and adheres 'to 'the canonical books of the Old and 

 New Testaments as the revealed Word of God and 

 the only rule of faith and life, and the Confessions 

 of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, especially the 

 Augsburg Confession and Luther's Small Catechism, 

 as a correct and faithful exhibition of the Divine 

 Word, to which rule and confessions all instructions 

 in the church, the school, and the family, shall be 

 conformed, and by which all questions of doctrine 

 shall be decided, and all books of worship and in- 

 struction used in congregations shall accord with 

 the same. 



Of the /fesfor. Every pastor of this congregation 

 must, at his ordination or installation, be obligated 



