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Title: 1517-1917. Jubilee volume
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Conferences. Norristown
Subjects: Lutheran church in Pennsylvania. (from old catalog) Lutherans
Publisher: (Lebanon, Pa., Sowers printing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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carpeted and other minor changes made,all amounting to about two thousand dollars. The re-newed church was re-dedicated on Sunday, October22, 1916, with appropriate services, at which a largenumber of neighboring clergymen participated. At present, in 1916, the congregation numbers athousand members, having nearly trebled under itspresent pastor, and is in a healthful and flourishingcondition in every way, having all the modern churchfacilities and societies, such as Ladies Aid and Mis-sionary Societies, Luther League, Teacher TrainingClass, etc. Am glad to add that in this congregationthe women members have a right to vote. The future of St. Pauls, under Gods blessings,should indeed be a bright and useful one. When thepresent pastor took hold of the Masters vineyard, allthe services in this church were German. This was in1868. Today two-thirds of all the public services arein English. All the catechetical instruction is English.There is not a German class in the Sunday-school to-day.
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ST. PAULS, RED HILL NORRISTOWN CONFERENCE 183 PASTORS OF ST. PAUl/s CHURCH The following pastors served this congregation: 1. John Jacob Justus Birkenstock, from 1739 to1743. He had been the parochial school teacher priorto his ordination. 2. John Conrad Andrea, from 1743 to 1752. Hebuilt the first and log church in 1750. 3. Frederick Schultz, from 1752 to 1756. 4. Frederick Reis, from 1756 to 1764. In this lat-ter year he died, aged 49 years, and his grave can beseen on the old cemetery near the church. 5. George Frederick Niemeyer, from 1764 to 1771.* 6. Conrad Sebastian Roeller, from 1771 to 1775.Some of his descendants are still living in these parts. 7. John Schwarbach, from 1775 to 1789. 8. Charles B. Dannapfel, from 1789 to 1790. 9. Christian Espich, from 1790 to 1793. Underhim the congregation was legally incorporated in 1792. 10. Frederick Wilhelm Geissenhainer, St., from1793 to 1808. This pastor was one of the ablest andmost learned men in the Lutheran Church, and his ser-vi

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