# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1859_S154
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154 Statistical Survey of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, etc.

calling to lead the congregation to Moab, and thereupon vanished so completely that all inquiries have remained fruitless. Meanwhile his followers too have arrived in Palestine and wait there, helpless and dismayed, for the return of the vanished one. — By their fruits shall ye know them. The fruit of chiliasm is that it plunges its deluded followers into bodily ruin as well.

Signs of the times. A new Catholic church has been built in Eisleben, Luther's birthplace, not far from the house in which he was born, from St. Peter's Church where he was baptized, and from St. Andrew's Church — or, as the people call it, the Luther Church — where the man of God, already ill, held his last sermon.

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(Submitted.)
Statistical Survey
of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in North America.

According to the "Norsk Luthersk Folke-Kalender" for 1859, the Norwegian Lutheran Synod consists of 12 pastors, and the congregations served by them number 88, of which about 70 are mission congregations that in part can be visited only three or four times a year. The congregations generally lie thirty to a hundred miles from the main congregation. 39 congregations are joined to the Synod, while 49 still stand outside it. We give below a list of the individual pastors with their congregations:

N. Brandt, Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co., Wis., serves 6 congregations with 660 members;

P. M. Brodahl, Bluemound, Dane Co., Wis., serves 6 congregations with 851 members;

F. C. Clausen, Spring Grove, Houston Co., Minn., serves 3 congregations with 570 members;

G. F. Dietrichson, Orfordville, Rock Co., Wis., serves 7 congregations with 1090 members;

Olaus F. Duus, Whitewater, Walvorth Co., Wis., serves 7 congregations with 915 members;

V. Koren, Decorah, Winneshiek Co., Jo., serves 5 congregations with 1310 members;

Laur. Larsen, New Centerville, St. Croix Co., Wis., serves 8 congregations with 1150 members;

J. St. Munch, Viota, Lafayette Co., Wis., serves 5 congregations with 530 members;

J. A. Ottesen, Oslo, Manitowoc Co., Wis., serves 8 congregations with 590 members;

A. C. Preus, Utica, Dane Co., Wis., serves 11 congregations with 2170 members;