Talk:Martin Stephan

message: Mr. Huggins needs to understand that there are currently more factual documents available on Martin Stephan than the skewed view presented in Zion on the Mississippi. The afore mentioned book is over 40 years old and the information contain in this wiki comes directly from Martin's personal documents and trial transcripts.
Yury Stephan, decendant of Martin Stephan
:As for factual documents, my ancestor and his brother (the Höhne brothers) were frequently-quoted sources for Zion on the Mississippi via letters reprinted in Die Ameise.  Could I ask you what is skewed about it?  Tcschenks 22:03, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Objectivity 

message: The current article on Martin Stephan needs to follow the form of a biography and include some of this pastor's contributions to the spiritual journey of people in america.  Martin Stephan was indeed the organizer and leader of an Emigration Society who came to the US in 1838 sailing from Bremerhaven in five ships.  Stephan, who was born in 1777 in Stramberg, Moravia now the Czech Repbulic was the son of pious long time Christians who followed John Hus and later were Moravian brethren.  They joined the Reformation of Martin Luther and when after the 30 years war they were forced from the land, they went underground in the local Roman Cahtolic Church which had previously been Lutheran.
The above is an example of some of the contributions as well as hardships he endured.
I will be happy to edit this biography in the wikipedia to incorporate these contributions.  
If anyone else wants to join in this endeavor I will be happy to serve and an editor so that we have an accurate and up to date reading of this pastor.  Philip Stephan decendant of Martin Stephan
:Might this be how the after-dinner prayer "We thank Thee Lord for all our food, for live and health and every good" gained common use among the Saxon immigrants?  My East Perry County (Altenburg/Wittenberg) family used this prayer after meals and I've read that the words come from a hymn written by a man of Moravian Brethren origin. Tcschenks 22:13, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martin Stephan's Positive contributions to Lutheranism in the U. S. 

message: Some of this version could be merged back in if there are sources for it, but I've reverted the edit that removed all previous content and formatting. Angela. 06:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Reverting to older version

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