id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 19422 Schmucker, B. M. (Beale Melanchthon) The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America .txt text/plain 14898 749 63 the first settled pastor of the Dutch Lutheran congregations in New congregation; 4.) To keep the accounts of the church in good order and the officers of the congregation are styled Rector, Church Wardens and constitution of the Lutheran Church at Amsterdam is the most important Muehlenberg's time says: "Each Congregation shall have its own Elders congregation assembled in the Swedish Church, by the three elders and elders, not elected by the congregation, but chosen by the pastors at church council, by the whole congregation, at a free election, by a 1. The congregation shall, by virtue of this new constitution, have the 2. The Church Council of the congregation shall hereafter consist of the 2.) At the election the congregation present shall have the faithful Pastors and elected officers of the congregation, that they may member of our Evangelical Lutheran congregation, and he shall have no ./cache/19422.txt ./txt/19422.txt