Identifier: justusfalck00sach (find matches)
Title: Justus Falckner, mystic and scholar, devout Pietist in Germany, hermit on the Wissahickon, missionary on the Hudson : a bi-centennial memorial of the first regular ordination of an Orthodox pastor in America, done November 24, 1703, at Gloria Dei, the Swedish Lutheran church at Wicaco, Philadelphia
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919
Subjects: Falckner, Justus, 1672-1723
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed for the Author
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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ike Fridiricus Boolt and Uldrig Zimmer-diinger; or such as are scattered about the country far andnear, like Joh. Jacob Huttrot, Joh. C. Miiller, and A. Beem,who has since returned to Newburg. Others are not evenknown here by name. Further, of all the rest or at leastnot a single one of them (excepting the three Van Bos-kerkes and Joh. Michael Schiitz, who formerly served asa deacon, and once upon a time, about the year 1713, tookupon himself to collect money in Amsterdam, whereof hedelivered fifteen Pounds to the church after a lapse of threeyears), ever gave a single penny toward the church duringtheir whole lifetime. Yea, it even came to pass, after a brother of the VanBoskerkes, who hailed from Hackensack, had extended acall thence to this Van Dieren and permitted him occasion-ally to preach in their dwelling houses, that he preachedonce in our church, but only with the consent, forciblyobtained, from both the p. t. deacons Lagrannie and 1703-MEMORIAL OF DOM. JUSTUS FALCKNER-1903.
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COURTESY OF WM. Z. FLITCRAFT, ESQ. SWEDISH CHURCHES ON THE DELAWARE. ST. GEORGES PENNS NECK, N. J., ORGANIZED 1714. Appeal to Amsterdam. 121 Beekmann. Upon the next occasion, however, these offi-cers took possession of the pulpit (priester Stiihl) andbarred the way to the chancel. They even threatened to commit murder and force ourhouses and church, if this were not opened unto them.Their aim however was merely to obtain possession of thestrong box of the Church. Consequently the statement,as made in their missive, that Johann Van Dieren wascalled unanimously and by general consent, is fictitious. The rest of the congregation as a dernier ressort haveresolved, in case the Right Reverend Consistory at Am-sterdam would not favor them, to extend a call to thebrother of the sainted Falckner, although his own brotherwould not counsel them to do this before they took up withVan Dieren. And now about the ungodly missive, they knew noth-ing at all of it, until they were informed by a goodfrie

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