LOWER SAXON CONFEDERATION: A federation of Reformed churches in Lower Saxony which has existed for more than two centuries. It is the one church body in Germany in which the Presbyterian system was fully carried out. In Electoral Hanover, especially in the cities of Cells, Lüneburg, Hameln, and Hanover, Huguenot fugitives had been received and had formed congregations, also in the neighboring territories of Schaumburg-Lippe and Brunswick. On Nov. 13, 1699, it was decided at Hanover to establish a closer union between these scattered members of the Reformed Church. German Reformed bodies in Hanover, Cells, and Bückeburg joined the confederation. The governments of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Schaumburg-Lippe gave permission for the establishment of the confederation, granting the union and its congregations self-government but reserving the so-called jura circa sacra. The first synod of the United Reformed churches in Lower Saxony was held in July, 1703, at Hameln. The government

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I my cross have taken." Lyte also published Tales in Verse (London, 1826), and an appreciative Memoir of Henry Vaughan, prefixed to Vaughan's Sacred Poems (London, 1847). His daughter edited his Remains (1850), which consists of poems, sermons, and letters. The poems in this volume were reprinted in Lyte's Miscellaneous Poems (1868).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Besides the Memoir in the Remains, consult: J. Miller, Singers and Songs of the Church, pp. 431-433, London, 1889; Julian, Hymnology, pp. 706-707.