Anti-Missourian Brotherhood. 1887-1890.

The Anti-Missourian Brotherhood formed in 1888 as a breakaway group from the Norwegian Synod as a result of the Predestination Controversy. During the controversy, the Synod hled to the doctrinal line of the LCMS, and so those opposed, led by Minnesota District President Bernt Julius Muus, organized themselves into the Anti-Missourian Brotherhood. The Anti-Missourians established their seminary at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and their support helped to save St. Olaf from failing. In 1894, the Anti-Missourian Brotherhood joined with the Norwegian-Danish Conference and the Norwegian Augustana Synod to form the United Church.