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LUTHERANS. 



LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL. 



coming more unlike in certain things and impairing 

 practical unity, and besides such a seminary would 

 send out men more truly of one mind and spirit, 

 more surely in sympathy with the common work be- 

 fore them, and possessing in a greater degree an im- 

 portant adaptation for their field of labor. 



The committee was instructed to report at 

 the next convention on the feasibility of estab- 

 lishing a general theological seminary. The 

 next convention will be held at Wilmington, 

 N. 0., in November, 1889. 



Independent Synods. The following eleven 

 synods carry on their missionary, educational, 

 and benevolent operations independent of the 

 four general bodies, standing aloof from all 

 intercourse with any other synod : 



The following is a summary of the statis- 

 tirs of the denomination : 



Muhlenberg Centenary. Henry Melchior Muh- 

 lenberg, D. D., u Patriarch of the Lutheran 

 Church in America," died Oct. 7, 1787, and was 

 buried at Trappe, Montgomery County, Pa., 

 where he had resided for more than forty 

 years. His grave is at the side of the historic 

 church which he built in 1743, and is marked 

 with an ordinary marble slab bearing the fol- 

 lowing inscription (in Latin): " Sacred be this 

 monument to the memory of the blessed and 

 venerable Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Doctor 

 of Sacred Theology and Senior of the Ameri- 

 can Lutheran Ministerium. Born September 

 6, 1711. Died October 7, 1787. Who and 

 what he was future ages will know without a 

 stone." At the one hundred and forty-first 

 meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran Ministeri- 

 um of Pennsylvania and adjacent States, the 

 oldest Lutheran synod in the United States 

 and the synod founded by Dr. Muhlenberg in 

 1748, a resolution was passed to the effect 



that during the month of October services 

 should be held in every congregation belong- 

 ing to the synod in commemoration of the 

 sainted Muhlenberg, and that devout thanks 

 be offered to the Head of the Church for the 

 labors of this man of God from 1742 to 1787, 

 and for the blessed and ennobling influence 

 that he exerted on his own and subsequent 

 times, as well as for the blessing that God has 

 showered upon the Lutheran Church in Ameri- 

 ca during the century. It was further resolved 

 that at these memorial services collections be 

 taken in each congregation as thank-offerings 

 to God, and that the money thus collected be 

 given to Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., 

 for the endowment of its German professor- 

 ship. The movement thus begun by the mother 

 synod was taken up by Lutherans generally in 

 eastern Pennsylvania, and in many congrega- 

 tions were held memorial services, especially 

 in the four hundred and seventeen congrega- 

 tions of the old synod. 1 he chief memorial 

 services, however, were held in the new and 

 commodious Lutheran church at the Trappe, 

 erected near the old and quaint but well-pre- 

 served structure on Oc-t. 7, 1887, attended by 

 several thousand Lutherans from Philadelphia, 

 New York, Allentown, Reading, Lancaster, 

 and many other towns. Many of the descend- 

 ants of Muhlenberg were present. The cen- 

 tenary discourse was delivered on Friday 

 morning, October 7, by the Rev. G. F. Krotel, 

 D. D., of New York city, President of the 

 Ministerium of Pennsylvania, in which he 

 presented an interesting sketch of the leading 

 facts of his long and useful life and a delinea- 

 tion of his character. In the afternoon of the 

 same day, Revs. W. J. Mann, D. D., and 0. W. 

 Schaeffer, D. D., LL. D., in eloquent addresses 

 portrayed his characteristics as a Christian, a 

 scholar, pastor, and missionary, an efficient or- 

 ganizer, a wise master-builder, and a safe leader 

 of the Church in troublous times. Among 

 other memorial services, the services held in 

 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., and by 

 the Susquehanna Synod at Selinsgrove, Pa , 

 deserve special mention. As a permanent 

 and suitable tribute to the memory of Muhlen- 

 berg may be mentioned the interesting volume, 

 ''The Life and Times of Henry Melchior Muh- 

 lenberg, D. D.," by Win. J. Mann, D. D., Pro- 

 fessor in the Lutheran Theological Seminary 

 (Philadelphia, 1887). 



LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL, Lord, 

 English diplomatist, born in Lymington, Eng- 

 land, April 26, 1817 ; died in London, Eng- 

 land, Dec. 5, 1887. He was the only son of 

 the first Baron Lyons, who was admiral of the 

 Britisli fleet in the Black Sea during the Crim- 

 ean war. His ancestors were planters on 

 the island of Antigua, and one of them, Henry 

 Lyons, who resided for some time in Philadel- 

 phia, married in 1690 Sarah, daughter of 

 Samuel Winthrop, a grandson of Gov. Win- 

 throp, of Massachusetts. He was educated at 

 Winchester School and Christ Church College, 



