Illustrated Memorial Number of the Indicator; Pub. on the Occasion of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, and the Dedication of the New Buildings at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia ... Vol. IX, October, 1889 (Paperback, Annotated edition)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...Dr. Mann, being Professor of Hebrew, Symbolics, and also of Ethics in the Seminary, published his General Principles of Christian Ethics, which is a very compact abridgement of Dr. Ch. Fr. Schmidt's Ethics, and is still used as a text book in the Seminary. In 1875 Dr. Mann made his second visit to Europe, he having gone back to the old world for the first time in 1867, and returned from his third visit to the old country just a few weeks ago. In 1881 he yielded to the urgent request of many who had listened to his preaching, to publish a volume of sermons. Heilsbotscha/t appeared, having a large sale, the proceeds of which were devoted to the Orphans' Home. At this time, Dr. Mann, who, in conjunction with Dr. B. M. Schmucker, had become the highest authority on the early history of our Church in America, and on the life and times of the patriarch Muhlenberg, was appointed by Synod to the new office of Synodical Archivarius, and began the organization of the Synodical Archives, of which he is still custodian. Dr. Mann has been President of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania three times, declining, at the meeting in Pottstown in 1881 to become a candidate in the future. He contributed the articles, " Lutherische Kirche in Nord Amerika," and "Mormonism" to the last edition of Herzog and Plitt's Encyclopaedia, and was a special contributor to the American Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia. From 1882 on, nearly every year has brought with it a book from his pen. In 1882 there appeared his " Leben und Wirken William Penn's;" in 1883, "Ein Aufgang im Abendland;" 1884, "Das Buch der Buecher und seine Geschichte;" and in 1885, the first volume of the new and richly annotated edition of the " Halle Reports," the resu...