founding of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church was very instrumental under Krauth’s name. The General Council was a conservative Lutheran church organization, which was formed against the new American Lutheranism run by Samuel Simon Schmucker and his group the General Synod. In 1867 the General Council was founded along with the thirteen church groups within it. This is the group that founded the Akron Rule, a very important document in Krauth’s works. Krauth also wrote the position