His Delaware, Ohio congregation is now ELCA.
Matthias Loy, Lutheran Standard, May 15, 1886, p. 84 (as cited by C. George Fry in The Springfielder, October 1974, Volume 38, Number 4, Matthias Loy: Theologian of American Lutheran Orthodoxy)
"What was once settled as fundamental orthodoxy has, in various particulars, become strangely disturbed. The old ways of thinking no longer fit and satisfy and command the stern and unfaltering consent, as they once did . . . Notice the contradictions, the inconsistencies, the vacillations of theological opinion, in all statements of our time,--how vague the language chosen, how uncertain the note struck, how many the loopholes of evasion! . . . . Try if you can get a definite declaration of theological faith from your intelligent friends of any denomination. Question the professed teachers of religion, and notice how slowly, how guardedly, how vaguely they answer direct inquiries....There has been an almost universal loosing of old moorings, a breaking away from the firm fastenings of other days, a drifting no one can tell whither."
