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Identifier: 15171917jubileev00evan (find matches)
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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thatthe land was bought for the special use and behoof ofthe Minister of the New Church of Hanover. Andagain it is specified that it is for the minister now inservice for said congregation. This parsonage prop-erty, however, passed out of the congregation nearlyfifty years ago, when the pastor moved to Boyer-town. The money realized by the sale of the prop-erty is still in possession of the congregation and thepastor enjoys its income. Church Buildings.—Whether the congregationhas had but three, or four, church buildings will per-haps never be known, nor where the first churchstood, but the following appears in the diary of Rev.Sandel, Swedish pastor at Molattan in the early partof the eighteenth century: One of the first things he(Daniel Falckner) did in the new settlement was toorganize a congregation, build a church, and holdservices according to the Lutheran Ritual. This hum-ble structure, a mere rude log-cabin, without any at-tempt at ornamentation or architectural beauty, with
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N0RR1ST0WN CONFERENCE 57 its sparse congregation and enthusiastic preacher, hasthe distinction of being the first regular German Lu-theran church and organized congregation in theWestern World. It served the congregation until1721, when a more pretentious building was erected,also of logs. This seems to make it clear that thepastorate of Daniel Falckner and the first one ofRev. Henkel were not spent with a churchless con-gregation, but that they had a place of worship priorto 1721, however rude and simple it may have been. The second church was erected in 1721. It wouldbe interesting to know where this church was located,its dimensions, its style of construction, but all weknow about it is that in it serious minded people wor-shipped, and that it also lasted but for a score ofyears. Again the church building was unsatisfactory; per-haps it was too small to accommodate the growingcongregation, perhaps it became dilapidated, becauseof the decaying character of the timber, grown onmarshy

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