The Lutherans of New York, Their Story and Their ProblemsWenner, George Unangst
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The Lutherans of New York, Their Story and Their Problems
Wenner, George Unangst
Lutherans -- New York (State) -- New York
Inner Mission Society, 2040 Fifth Avenue. Missionary: Rev. Ferdinand F.
Buermeyer, D.D.
Inner Mission and Rescue Work, 56 Pine Street, Manhattan. Rev. V. A. M.
Mortensen.
Association for the Relief of Indigent Germans on Blackwell's Island.
German Home for Recreation of Women and Children, 1895, Brooklyn, Harway
Avenue, Gravesend Beach.
Immigrant and Seamen's Missions
Norwegian, 1867, Manhattan, 45 Whitehall St. Pastor Petersen.
Emigrant House, 1869, Manhattan, 147 West Twenty-third Street. Pastor
Haas.
Danish Mission, 1878, Brooklyn, 197 Ninth Street. Pastor Anderson.
Norwegian Seamen, 1879, Brooklyn, 115 Pioneer St. Pastor Ekeland.
Finnish Mission, 1887, Brooklyn, 197 Ninth Street. Pastor Maekinen.
Seamen's Mission, 1907, Hoboken, 64 Hudson Street. Pastor Brueckner.
Swedish Immigrant Home, 1895, Manhattan, 5 Water Street. Pastor
Helander.
Immigrant Society, Inc., 1869, Manhattan, 234 East 62d Street. Pastor
Restin.
Other Associations
Lutheran Education Society of New York. For the promotion of higher
education within the Atlantic and Eastern Districts of the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Missouri. Pastor Karl Kretzmann, Secretary.
Manhattan Sunday School Institute, 1908. 15 schools. Enrollment, 495
teachers.
English Lutheran Missionary Society of Brooklyn, 1898. Reports
establishment of 16 churches in Brooklyn and Long Island.
Luther League of New York City. Enrollment, 1,100 members.
American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 234 East 62d Street.
Lutheran Bureau, Inc., A National Medium for Information and Service.
The Bureau grew out of the celebration of the Reformation
Quadricentennial. Its lines of activity embrace a lecture bureau, a news
service and an information service.
In the last it offers information on the best methods of doing church
work, culling the best experience in the field of service and placing it
at the disposal of anyone desiring it.
In the lecture bureau and the news service it is stimulating Lutherans
to study the problems of the hour and it is creating opportunities for
them to be heard.
The office is located in the Bank of the Metropolis Building, Union
Square, New York. President, George D. Boschen; Treasurer, Theodore H.
Lamprecht; Executive Secretary, O. H. Pannkoke.
National Lutheran Commission for Soldiers' and Sailors' Welfare, 437
Fifth Avenue, New York. Chairman, Rev. Frederick H. Knubel, D.D.
Periodicals
Der Lutherische Herold, founded in 1852, by Henry Ludwig.
Der Sonntagsgast, founded 1872. Editor: Pastor Wenner.
The New York Lutheran, founded 1903. Editor: Pastor Brunn.
Der Deutsche Lutheraner, founded 1909. Continuation of Der Lutherische
Herold. Editor: Pastor Berkemeier.
The Luther League Review. Editor, E. F. Eilert.
The American Lutheran. Editor: Pastor Lindemann.
Inner Missions. Inner Mission Society.
Bookstores
Lutheran Publication Society, 150 Nassau Street.
Ernst Kaufmann, 22 North William Street.
Augustana Book Concern, 132 Nassau Street.
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