“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries
built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just a year and a half, the quest has
grown to over two hundred seventy caches hidden in twenty-seven
Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown
to ten cacher teams, nine of which of which are comprised of
Dogs and their Humans. Over 480 cacher
teams have logged over 5,400 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ
caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
(Photos by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#266
”It's Greek to Me!"
Welcome to the St. John's German Lutheran
Church and its well manicured and elegant cemetery in Preble
Township, Adams County. Many ancient stones you will find behind
the hedges, carved in the German Language. The cache is not hidden
in the shrubbery, so don't go rootin' around in there. "Happy
Sunshine", the Light Side of the cacher formerly known as Patrick
wants you to enjoy your brief stay at this enchanted place. (The
hint is, as usual, a spoiler).
Say What?
Most German immigrants were Protestants,
with Lutheranism by far the most prominent denomination; perhaps a
third of German immigrants were Catholics, and around 250,000 were
Jewish. Within the Lutheran community in the United States there
was considerable friction. Nineteenth-century German Lutheran
immigrants found that the existing German Lutheran churches in the
US had developed what, to them, were unwelcome tendencies. Most had
been Americanized enough so that English was used for all or part
of their services. Even worse to them, doctrine had been
liberalized.
The older churches and their offshoots,
established by immigrants who had come before the Revolution, had
come closer to Reformed and even Anglican churches and in many
instances had adopted preaching styles similar to that of the
Methodists. These trends were, not surprisingly, more pronounced in
the cities than in the country. In New York and Philadelphia, for
example, Lutheran bodies had adopted new constitutions in which all
reference to the Augsburg Confession had disappeared. The result
was, eventually, schism.
By 1847, under the leadership of a
recent immigrant pastor, C. F. W. Walther, whose enemies called him
"the Lutheran pope of the West," the newer Lutheran arrivals who
wished to maintain the old-style doctrine had organized the
Missouri Synod. Over the years it has remained the bulwark of the
more conservative American Lutherans, regardless of where they
live.
FIND LOGS ON
THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
The cache container was a
small black celluloid roll tube. Now it's not. BYOP. .The
cache is not located near a grave... If you find a fallen US flag,
please stick it back in the ground. As always, please be
respectful, and cache in, trash out.
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None genuine without this official SixDogTeam
seal. Digital photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2005 by RikSu
Outfitters unless otherwise noted.
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