# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1916_S397 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) Vermischtes. 897 mierte, 135 Erziehungsanstalten mit 17,796 Studierenden, von denen 3798 sich auf das Predigtamt vorbereiten. In 14 Sprachen erscheinen 210 Sonntagsschulpublikationen und 117 Zeitschriften. Wohltätig⸗ keitsanstalten gibt es 231 mit 334,129 verpflegten Personen. Die Zahl der Missionare in China, Japan, Indien, Afrika usw. beträgt 273 plus 1610 eingeborne Helfer. Die Gemeindeschulen zählen 261,000 und die Sonntagsschulen 1,019,911 Schüler. Der Wert des Gesamt⸗ eigentums der lutherischen Kirche in Amerika beträgt §133,592,409. Der Survey gibt für 1915 folgende Kommunizierenden der einzelnen Synoden an: Missouri: 622,243, Wisconsin: 106,628, Minnesota: 26,214, Michigan: 9,290, Nebraska (Synodical Conference): 3,028, Slovak: 5,100, Pennsylvania: 159,137, New Vork (General Couneil): 56,598. Pittsburgh (General Council): 32,691, Ohio (General Coun- cil): 13,981, Augustana: 186,056, Canada: 14,500, Chicago: 8,284, English, Northwest: 10,921, Manitoba: 5,100, Pacifie: 1,906, Nev Vork and New England: 18,869, Nova Scotia: 2,918, Oentral OCanada: 1,781, Texas (General Council): 1,177, Maryland: 33,684, West Penn- sylvania: 38,681, East Ohio: 11,935, Allegheny: 26,902, East Pennsyl- vania: 41,883, Miami: 10,345, Pittsburgh (General Synod): 25,810, Wittenberg: 15,399, Olive Branch: 7,219, Northern Illinois: 10,792, Central Pennsylvania: 12,864, JIowa (General Synod): 5,554, North- ern Indiana: 9,283, Oentral Illinois: 4,501, Susquchanna: 20,074, Kansas: 5,868, Nebraska (General Synod): 6,958, Wartburg: 9,123, California: 5,102, German Nebraska (General Synod): 9,443, Rocky Mountain: 1,874, Southern Illinois: 2,208, New Vork (General Synod): 35,867, West Virginia: 4,201, North Carolina: 10,438, Tennessee: 14,440, South Carolina: 11,544, Virginia: 6,419, Southwestern Vir- ginia: 5,673, Mississippi: 755, Georgia: 3,950, Holston: 1,769, Joint Ohio: 142,355, Buffalo: 6,440, Eielsen's: 1,800, Hauge's: 39,983, Nor- wegian: 99,988, Iowa (Independent): 125,928, Danish: 13,346, Ice- landic: 3,939, Immanuel: 19,150, Finnish Suomi: 13,912, Norwegian, Uniteéd: 171,657, Norwegian, Freée: 28,050, Danish, United: 14,090, Non-synodical: 27,000. Total: 2,404, 618. F. B. Das Reformationsjubiläum in Amerika 1817. In der „L. C. R.“ lesen wir: „The Documentary History' of the Ministerium of Penn- Flvania contains an item relating to the observance of the three- hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in 1817, as follows: With reference to the celebration of the Jubilée, the Ministerium resolved that the German Evangelical Reformed Synod, the Moravians, the English Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches shall be invited by our President to celebrate the Reformation Festival with us.“ At the next convention, in 1818, fraternal responses from Bishop White, of the Episcopal Church, and Bishop Reichel, of the Moravian Church, were read; and ea delegation from the Reformed Synod appeared, urging the establishment of a United Seminary for the education of can-