6 to the Missouri Synod, 4 are Independent. Of the General Synod churches 13 are English; of the Joint-Ohio 6; of Missouri 3, the other 3 are German. The Mother Church was alienated from the Luth. faith and from Synodical connections through a Rationalist pastor. Baltimore has in the last decade witnessed an extraordinary multiplication of churches due in large part to a local Church-Extension Society with which all the General Synod congregations co-operate. E. J. W. . George
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