Excerpt from Hand-Book of Lutheranism O walk about Zion and go round about her, to tell the T towers thereof and mark well her bulwarks, to consider her palaces, and to tell it to the generations following, is the purpose of this volume. The obstacles to the attain ment of such purpose regarding a Church having worldwide organization, more than a half hundred million membership, and polyglot utterance, are known to those only who have experience of them. In such a volume whose almost every sentence is a statement of fact, or of figures, absolute accuracy is not attainable. Substantial accuracy and a sincere purpose are the Author's claim. In now committing his labor of love to the tender mercy of his patrons, due consideration is asked of the fact that his is pioneer work; to the Author's knowledge, nothing of its kind hitherto having been attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.