ideas and for the principles of Luther’s Reformation to be the foundation of pastors’ education. They opened a second small academy in New York (the first, called Hartwick, had been opened in 1815 in Oneonta, New York) which stressed the teaching of Luther’s Catechisms and traditional Lutheran hymns and liturgy. Some Lutherans in Germany were such strong adherents to the unaltered Augsburg Confession that they fled Germany rather than obey the proposed merger with the Reformed, advocated by the Prussian
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