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Lebanon community, it is said that each family owns its set of Luther’s 
works and is familiar with theological questions. It is not strange then 
that there are six churches there with three pastors, of whom one is inde¬ 
pendent, another belongs to the Iowa Synod, and another to the Missouri 
Synod. 
In Kirchhayn, Cedarburg and Freistadt also, in 1855, we find besides 
the churches belonging to the Buffalo Synod other societies belongingto 
the Missouri Synod. * Such divisions are not infrequent as the re¬ 
sult of an unusual mental and spiritual activity, as for example Germany 
itself in Reformation times and England in Puritan times. 
While the other synods have increased rapidly in numbers in Wiscon¬ 
sin and other states, the Buffalo Synod has remained comparatively iso¬ 
lated and small, owing to its very conservative character, and its rigid 
adherence to earlier doctrines. The use of the private confessional is 
still preserved in its churches, while its doctrines adhere to the old 
Saxon and Pomeranian church ordinances. The synod has but five 
churches in the state and these are all the original communities who 
emigrated between 1839 and 1815. They are Milwaukee (St. Paul’s), 
Cedarburg, Preistadt, Kirchhayn and Sherman. The Cooperstown 
church, though belonging to the Wisconsin synod, keeps the doctrines 
and forms of the Buffalo synod. 
* Berlcht — 1855. 
