tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post6850106427392502836..comments2024-03-29T04:31:15.219-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Picked up some notes from a Sasse class and started reading. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-82996564806042233172015-05-30T11:50:17.713-05:002015-05-30T11:50:17.713-05:00"When in 1839 the Saxons came to America and ...<i>"When in 1839 the Saxons came to America and got a first hand look at a Lutheranism in which the Sacrament of the Altar was absent on Sunday morning and got to know Lutheran people for whom Holy Communion was more novelty than central to their piety and life as Christian people under the Augsburg Confession. They were immediately accused of being Romanizing."</i> <br /><br />Is there a reference to being "immediately accused of being Romanizing"?<br /><br />The Missouri Saxons' arrival and interactions with the population of St. Louis is described by Walter O. Forster (<i>Zion on the Mississippi</i>, CPH, 1953, 305-351) and in an1839 book, <i>Die Schicksale und Abenteuer der aus Sachsen nach Amerika ausgewanderten Stephanianer</i> (<a href="http://www.archivaria.com/Stephanists/index.html" rel="nofollow"><i>The Destinies and Adventures of the Stephanists who emigrated from Saxony to America</i></a>), written by Gotthold Guenther (brother to Louise Guenther, one of Martin Stephan's concubines). Guenther included a number of articles and letters published in the St. Louis German newspaper, <i>Anzeiger des Westens</i>. Most of the attacks were against Stephan and his pompous behavior against the poor Saxon immigrants. Stephan's behavior had already been publicized from German newspapers while Stephan and the Saxons were still in Germany. <br /><br />See also an <a href="http://pastoralmeanderings.blogspot.com/2011/08/shocker-in-bible-study.html?showComment=1312865951512#c147225936973266970" rel="nofollow">August 8, 2011, comment</a> regarding another claim about the Missouri Saxons and Lutheran churches in St. Louis.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.com