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They formed a new synod which adopted all the Confessions and took a firm stand in opposition to membership in secret societies. The "Steimle" Synod, as it was usually called, disbanded in 1872, its members going, some to the Missouri Synod, others to the Ministerium. Their organ, the Lutherisches Kirchenblatt, was merged with the Lutherischer Herold. Pastor Steimle died in 1880.
The tide of confessionalism which had been rising in Europe for half a century touched America in the forties and reached a high water mark during the period under review. In 1866 a number of pastors and churches, under the leadership of Pastor Steimle, severed their connection with the Ministerium for confessional reasons.
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