 | James William Richard - Augsburg Confession - 1909 - 666 pages
...alienation within the General Council itself, as especially the so-called Galesburg Rule: "I. The Rule, which accords with the Word of God and with the Confessions of our Church is : Lutheran pulpits for Lutheran ministers only. Lutheran altars for Lutheran communicants only.... | |
 | 1910 - 596 pages
...calculated to beget additional confidence in the legitimacy of the Rule itself. If it so manifestly 'accords with the Word of God and with the Confessions of our Church,' there is at least an element of mystery in the great travail of mind and heart and soul that preceded... | |
 | S. E. Ochsenford - 1912 - 656 pages
...Council as it now stands. The rule, as presented in Lancaster, Ohio, and approved in Akron, was amended by inserting the words, "which accords with the Word of God and with the Confessions of our Church," and reads in full. . . . It will thus be seen, as the President also officially stated at Galesburg,... | |
 | Friedrich Bente - Lutheran Church - 1919 - 264 pages
...of pastors, as the cases arise." (216.) At Galesburg, 1875, the General Council declared: "The rule which accords with the Word of God and with the Confessions of our Church is: 'Lutheran pulpits for Lutheran ministers only — Lutheran altars for Lutheran communicants only.'"... | |
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The rule which accords with the Word of God and with the Confessions of our Church is: 'Lutheran pulpits for Lutheran ministers only — Lutheran altars for Lutheran communicants only. 