He served as president of his church's board of foreign missions (1902–07), of the
General Council of Lutherans (1899, 1902, 1904), of the
American Society of Church History (1907–08), and of the
Pennsylvania German Society (1910–11). He also translated various German theological works and editing the Lutheran Church Review (1882–96), and Lutheran Commentary (1895-98). Henry Eyster Jacobs, working with John A.W. Haas, published The Lutheran Cyclopedia in 1899.[6]
Lutheran Archives Center in Philadelphia holds a large collections of materials relating to Lutheran clergy, theologians and church workers including personal papers of Henry Eyster Jacobs.[7]
Selected works
First Free Lutheran Diet in America, Philadelphia, December 27–28, 1877 (1878)
The Lutheran movement in England during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and its literary monuments (1890)
The Lutheran Movement in England (1891)
History of the Lutheran Church in America (1893)
Elements of Religion (1894)
Annotations on the Epistles of Paul to the Romans and I. Corinthians (1896)
Annotations on the Epistles of Paul to I. Cortinthians VII-XVI, II. Corinthians and Galatians (1897)