“In 1906, Dr. Henry Eyster Jacobs, then in his sixty-second year, wrote these notes on his experiences in the leadership of the Lutheran Church. As he states in his opening sentence, these notes are set down for the use of others. He had in mind particularly his own son, Dr. Charles Michael Jacobs, then pastor of Christ Church, Allentown - later to succeed him as President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. The notes were handwritten in his miniscule script, and filled twenty-five of his familiar end-open note books. He reviewed the notes at least twice later and made corrections, additions and deletions. These changes are quite apparent in the manuscript by the shaky hand-writing and the occasionally added date of entry ( 1922, 1927, etc.).
“It was not his wish that the notes be published in their original form since much of the material deals with personalities. While he felt that the remarks were perfectly fair, he had been brought up in a time when the fragility of human relationships was only too evident. Thus he did not propose to reveal his inner thinking to an unknowing world.” - From the Introduction
Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed.
Book Contents
Volume 1
Introduction
Henry Eyster Jacobs - An Appreciation
1 Whence?
2 Something About My Father’s Family
3 Something About My Mother’s Family
4 Other Glimpses of the Outside World
5 College Life
6 Politics and War
7 The Battle of Gettysburg
8 After the Battle
9 In the Theological Seminary
10 Church Events and Hospital Work
11 College Tutorship
12 An Embarrassing Position
13 In Pittsburgh
14 Thiel Hall
15 The General Council at Pittsburgh
16 The Sunday Question
17 Thiel Hall Becomes a College
18 The Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Franklin Professorship at Gettysburg
19 Ten Days in Philadelphia
20 Elected at Gettysburg
Volume 1 Notes and Studies
A - Biographical Sources
B - Abbreviations
Volume 2
Transcribers' Note (1974)
21 First Year as Gettysburg Professor
22 Calls To Leave Gettysburg
23 The Chicago Seminary
24 The Ministerium of Pennsylvania
25 The General Council at Jamestown, N.Y.
26 Gettysburg Incidents
27 Conflicts at Gettysburg
28 The New York Ministerium
29 The Galesburg Commotion
30 The Lutheran Diet of 1877
31 At Home and On Trips
32 Departure from Gettysburg Impending
33 Called To Philadelphia
34 What I Found In Philadelphia
35 The Philadelphia Seminary
36 Visiting Other Protestant Leaders
37 Some New Ventures
38 The Church Book Committee
39 The Common Service
40 The Predestination Controversy
41 The Kropp Question
42 On the Board of Home Missions
Studies and Notes on Chapters 21 to 42 of Volume 2
“In 1906, Dr. Henry Eyster Jacobs, then in his sixty-second year, wrote these notes on his experiences in the leadership of the Lutheran Church. As he states in his opening sentence, these notes are set down for the use of others. He had in mind particularly his own son, Dr. Charles Michael Jacobs, then pastor of Christ Church, Allentown - later to succeed him as President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. The notes were handwritten in his miniscule script, and ...
Joseph Hocking is the Lutheran Librarian’s favorite Christian novelist. Though mostly forgotten now, during his lifetime he was widely read and greatly beloved throughout the English speaking world. Most of his books deal in some way with the struggles and conflicts of living as a Christian in the modern world.
The Lutheran Library is republishing many of Joseph Hocking’s novels. If you have any of Hocking’s 50 “lost” books, please contact us.
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Vol 6 includes “The Genesis of Faith” by Matthias Loy, “The Mystery of Conversion” by Matthias Loy, “The Office of Faith” by Conrad Herman Louis Schuette and many other articles. Dig in and enjoy some real Evangelical thought!
The Columbus Theological Magazine is one of the specially restored collections of the Lutheran Library.
Currently available volumes
Master index
Contents of Volume 6
(Links to facsimile PDF.)
Principal Author
Vol 6 No 1 ...
“‘The Epistle to the Galatians was a favorite of Luther’s… He found in it a source of strength for his own faith and life, and an armory of weapons for his reforming work… He came to think very little of his earlier commentaries. ‘They won’t do at all for this age ;’ he said, ‘they were only my first struggles against the confidence of works.’ But he rated his later exposition more highly. When the complete Latin edition of his works was in preparation a couple of years before ...
“A real book wherein are printed diverse sayings and doings of Dr Luther in these latter days when he applied for Synodical membership in the United States.” — from the Preface.
Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed.
Book Contents
Collect
By Way Of Explanation
1 I Rub My Eyes
2 Luther At Church
3 Getting Acquainted
4 The Doctors Disagree
5 Over The Mountains
6 Unequally Yoked Together
7 The King’s Business Requires Haste
8 Brethren Bland And ...
“It is to help the reader of Holy Scripture that the series has been undertaken. In writing it… I have wished to furnish what may be useful for reading in the family… More than this, I hope it may likewise prove a book to put in the hands of young men, — not only to show them what the Bible really teaches, but to defend them against the insidious attacks arising from misrepresentation and misunderstanding of the sacred text.” — Alfred Edersheim
Alfred Edersheim ...
Joseph Hocking is the Lutheran Librarian’s favorite Christian novelist. Though mostly forgotten now, during his lifetime he was widely read and greatly beloved throughout the English speaking world. Most of his books deal in some way with the struggles and conflicts of living as a Christian in the modern world.
The Lutheran Library is republishing many of Joseph Hocking’s novels. If you have any of Hocking’s 50 “lost” books, please contact us.
Book Contents
1 ...