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Excerpt from Luther's Church Postil Gospels, Advent, Christmas and Epiphany Sermons, Vol. 1: Translated Now for the First Time Into English; With Introduction, Walch's Analyses and Bugenhagen's "Summaries"; Second Thousand
Paul of modern times, who was the first to carry the Gospel. From Europe back to Asia, sailing from Copenhagen, Den mark, Nov. 29, I 70 5, under commission of the Scandinavian King, Frederick I V, and landing at Tranquebar, India, July 9, 1706; and there baptized the first Protestant con vert and erected the first Protestant church, and was the first to translate the Scriptures and Luther's Writings into the language of cultured heathenism; and whose letters and reports were translated into English by Rev. Anton Wilhelm Boehme, the German Luther an pastor in London, thus laying the foundation of the Heathen Mission Work in the English World, the 200th Anniversary of whose work the Protestant Church throughout the World is now celebrating; to Ziegenbalg, the mis sionary Paul, who was also three times in Africa and plead for the sending of the first missionaries to the dark continent, and was the first returned Protestant missionary to visit Germany, S candi navia and England; this volume of Luther, the theological Paul, is, with the hope that Ziegenbal g and Luther may be honored together, not only by all Lutherans throughout the world, but by Protestants of all Bonomi nations, most cheerfully, prayerfully and respect fully, and in the name of Christ, our Saviour, dedicated.
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