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The formation of the denomination in the United States during the colonial period: the history of the Coetus.
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Reformed Church History/Colonial American Period
Source: You Shall Be My People. Copyright © 1996 by the Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States.
By Rev. Norman L. Jones
INTRODUCTION
WHAT were the religious beliefs of those early German emigrants who left their...
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Reformed Church History/Colonial American Period
Overview
The founders of the church in this country were colonists from the Palatinate and other parts of western Germany and also from Switzerland. The first minister, Samuel Guldi, came from Bern to America in 1710. The first purely German...
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Reformed Church History/Colonial American Period
The First Synod and Classes
The first synod was held at Lancaster April 27, 1793. The church then consisted of 22 ministers, 178 congregations, and about 15,000 members. Its first problems were the education of ministers and the change of language...
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Reformed Church History/Colonial American Period
Source: The Historical Handbook of the Reformed Church, 1902, James I. Good, Electronic version, © 2004, The Synod of the Reformed Church in the U.S.
EUROPE was too small a continent to contain the Reformed Church; she spread to other continents....
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Reformed Church History/Colonial American Period
Articles from Rev. John P Boehm's Church Constitution of 1725 [1]
(It is agreed) that all the members of Consistory now in service in all the three villages shall be recognized and remain in their offices for their appointed...
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Reformed Church History/Colonial American Period
The Commission and Instructions Given to Rev. Michael Schlatter by the Amsterdam Classis Prior to His Leaving for the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1746 [1]
The Classis deputies gave Rev. Schlatter the following:
1. An introduction...
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