Excerpt from Thirty-Sixth Convention of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24th to 31st, 1917: Fiftieth Anniversary of the General Council; Quadri-Centennial of the Reformation and the Founding of Protestantism; One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Arrival of Muhlenberg (the Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America) Civic Welcome of the General Council to the City Of Philadelphia, extended by representatives of the City and its great institutions. 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.