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William Augustus Muhlenberg was born on 16 September 1796 in Philadelphia, into a prominent Pennsylvania family.
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Title: An exposition of the memorial of sundry presbyters of the Protestant Episcopal Church : presented to the House of Bishops during the general convention of said church, 1853. Author: William Augustus Muhlenberg Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP04618200 CollectionID: CTRG03-B1283 PublicationDate: 18540101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: "Introductory" signed: W. A. M. Collation: 84 p. ; 23 cm
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Excerpt from Woman and Her Accusers: A Plea for the Midnight Mission, Delivered in Several of the Churches of New York and Brooklyn Half its evil, by losing all its grossness. Thus, too, adopting the distinctions founded on custom and fashion, winking at the notions of honor which banish the adulteress, but not the adulterer, from the social pale; easily forgiving the man but damning the woman for that which, in the essence of its guilt, in the all-equal Eye, is the same. Not so, He whom we call our Exemplar unfaltering before sinners in high estate apply ing the same truth in the same terms, to great and small alike; criminating, as we have seen, learned and reverend criminators, and befriend ing the abject, dishonored criminal. There we have the judgment of Jesus Christ, reversing the judgment of the world, which casts the stone of infamy at the ruined, and leaves the author of her ruin unharmed. You are well aware how it is. You have all known some. Unfortunate irretrievably undone, while her undoer has fared as well as ever. I have never forgotten the pale emaciated form of a young woman, a distant connexion of my own, whom in the beginning of my ministry, I visited in her lonely chamber, to which she was doomed in perpetual and almost solitary confinement, for a solitary trans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Testimony of Jesus, the Spirit of Prophecy: A Sermon Preached at the Re-Opening of the Church of Augustus (Evangelical Lutheran), Trappe, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, September 5, 1860 Had the temper and spirit of moderation of those good men generally prevailed in our two communions, we should have found some way of coming together ere this, instead of remaining apart as we now do, adding to the unhappy divisions of the Christian world. No others of the reformed bodies ought rather to be one, for no others have so much in common. In all the great matters of the testi mony, we are one. We adhere to the ancient and univer sal creeds often found in your old Lutheran bibles as well as in our prayer-books. Lve have the same theological doctrines, seeing that your Augsburg. Confession was the basis of our XXXIX Articles, which confession, Bishop Bull, one of the great lights of the Church of England, after. Stating the fact that our articles were framed on it, pro nounces the noblest symbol of the Reformed Churches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Augustus Muhlenberg was born on 16 September 1796 in Philadelphia, into a prominent Pennsylvania family.
William Augustus Muhlenberg received both secondary and college education at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1820 Muhlenberg became a priest and assumed a pastorate in Lancaster, Pa. For the next several years Muhlenberg busied himself with writing hymns and helping found a public school system, but the community was uncongenial.
At the age of 30, while visiting relatives at Flushing, N. Y. , he agreed to serve for 6 months as minister to their parish. Subsequently he joined with local businessmen to found the first Episcopal church school and became its headmaster. His emphasis on educating the "whole child" foreshadowed progressive education in the 20th century. Muhlenberg's energies, however, soon sought a new outlet.
In 1846, distressed by the fact that only the upper socioeconomic groups appeared in Episcopal congregations, he organized the Church of the Holy Communion in New York City, where both rich and poor could worship. It was a "free" church in the sense that pews were not rented or bought. With its service programs-medical care for the indigent, needlework for unemployed women, and holiday dinners for the poor-the Church of the Holy Communion was a prototype of the "institutional church" characteristic of the later Social Gospel movement.
The spirit of Muhlenberg's ecumenical ministry was reflected in his journal, the Evangelical Catholic, in which he argued the universality of the Church's mission. In 1853 he sought to spread that spirit to his whole denomination by presenting a "Memorial" asking for reform at that year's general convention. Many of his demands were too radical for his day, but his efforts did lead to changes in the prescribed order of service.
While at the Church of the Holy Communion, Muhlenberg launched a drive to fund a charity hospital, St. Luke's. He also sponsored the first Protestant sisterhood, composed of women devoted to nursing.
In 1859 he left his congregation to take up duties as full-time pastor of St. Luke's. After the Civil War, Muhlenberg undertook one last project, the establishment of a Christian socialist community on Long Island. Intended as a refuge for poor families from New York, the community languished until the emphasis shifted to providing a home for elderly men and physically challenged children. There Muhlenberg lived out his last years.
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Muhlenberg's ancestors were leaders among Pennsylvania Lutherans, but his mother permitted him his preference for the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Muhlenberg's mature religion may be described as Anglican Christianity with an American accent. He opposed the "novelties" of Roman Catholicism and dogmatic Protestantism, affirming the Scriptures and church teaching before the 11th-century East–West Schism.
The Church of the Holy Communion, the American order of Protestant Episcopal deaconesses, the Sisterhood of the Church of the Holy Communion, the Church Industrial Community of St. Johnland.
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