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Title: An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Whitteker, John E. (John Edwin), 1851-1925
Subjects: Lancaster (City), Pa. Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity
Publisher: Lancaster, Pa., Wickersham printing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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re, after the singing of a hymn, PastorGerock read the history of the congregation, placed the docu-ment in a small box, and deposited the same in the corner-stone. The stone was then set in its place and Dr. Wrangle,the Swedish Provost, came forward and, according to usage,struck the stone three times, in the name of the Father, andof the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; after which he offered ashort prayer. The solemn ceremony closed by every clericaland lay member of the Ministerium, and e\ery officer of theChurch, coming forward, lifting the mallet, and striking thestone three times—not with words upon their lips; but, we maywell suppose, with the prayer in their hearts, that from thisfoundation there might rise up and remain, from age to age, atemple sacred to the worship of the Triune God! ©ID Zxinit^ As the walls arose, the congregation grew; and when the timefor the consecration arrived, May 4, 1766, a conservative esti-mate places the communicant membership at from 700 to 1000.
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That was, indeed, a memorable day ! At 10 oclock the pro-cession formed, and all, in well-arranged order, marched to IReminiscences the church : first the schoohiiaster with the children; then thedeacons solemnly bearing the sacred vessels ; next the invitedministers, followed by the elders and trustees of the congrega-tion; and last the deputies of the united congregations. In thechurch the ministers occupied the space within the chancel ;the church officers and deputies stood in a semi-circle about it.The Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg read the looth Psalm ;the pastor, Dr. Gerock, delivered the declaration—the pur-poses for which the Church was set apart ; and each pastorpresent, eight in all, quoted a passage of Scripture appropriateto church and king, to the building in itself and its sacredparts, as well as to parents and children—the congregation, theschool, and the kinderlehre—the preliminaiy service closingwith a prayer by Dr. Muhlenberg. Between these differentparts a s

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