Excerpt from History of the Southern Conference of the Pittsburg Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church The desire to know more of the early beginnings of our church and trace its growth and development, and to preserve, in fact and form, the history of the acts and experiences of the fathers, and hand it down to coming generations, has led to the preparation and publication of this volume. A number of years ago, the Pittsburg Synod took action looking toward the preparation of a history of our churches, but the plan was never carried out. The Southern Conference made the first move in this matter, at its meeting in October, 1899, when a committee was appointed to prepare a historical sketch of our Conference and our churches to be read at the next fall meeting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.