MAKE A MEME View Large Image 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., ...
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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 Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: onchurches, less than a mile apart, with two sets of rivalcongregations, which would in all probability be atloggerheads with one another for ages to come, and tosuggest as a solution for all their differences the adop-tion of his original plan : to build a Lutheran church inSchwenksville. After carefully and prayerfully considering the pro-position in all its bearings, it was so decided. EveryLutheran family was visited either by the pastor or anactive member of the church council, who explainedto them the advisability and the wisdom of the actiontaken by the citizens of the village and their adherents.Whatever had been their original preference, afterhearing the matter presented to them personally in aclear, deliberate and intelligent manner, they almostunanimously agreed to the project. Then it was thata congregation of scarcely two hundred active mem-bers began the erection of a building which, whencompleted, cost over $15,000. It would be an act of ingratitude not to mention that Text Appearing After Image: JERUSALEM, SCHWENXSVILLE NORRISTOWN CONFERENCE 209 in its building operations the congregation was won-derfully helped by the active co-operation and themoral and financial support, cheerfully given to it bymen and women of other communions of faith. Theground was broken for the new church at the cornerof Second and Church Streets near the middle ofSeptember, 1887. The corner-stone was laid on Octo-ber 9 of the same year, and the church was conse-crated on Easter Sunday, April 21, 1889, by the pas-tor, assisted by Rev. Jas. L. Becker, of Lansdale, andStudent E. T. Kretschmann, the newly elected pastorof the Trappe Church; Rev. Wra. Wackernagel, D.D.,of Muhlenberg College, preaching the sermon. Thisedifice, the first of a new order of churches in the Per-kiqmen Valley, stands as a monument to the labors andforesight of the now lamented Rev. O. P. Smith, D.D. During the summer of 1902 the pastor suggested tothe members of the church council the advisability ofbuilding a parsonage. The p Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: 15171917jubileev00evan 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 Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: onchurches, less than a mile apart, with two sets of rivalcongregations, which would in all probability be atloggerheads with one another for ages to come, and tosuggest as a solution for all their differences the adop-tion of his original plan : to build a Lutheran church inSchwenksville. After carefully and prayerfully considering the pro-position in all its bearings, it was so decided. EveryLutheran family was visited either by the pastor or anactive member of the church council, who explainedto them the advisability and the wisdom of the actiontaken by the citizens of the village and their adherents.Whatever had been their original preference, afterhearing the matter presented to them personally in aclear, deliberate and intelligent manner, they almostunanimously agreed to the project. Then it was thata congregation of scarcely two hundred active mem-bers began the erection of a building which, whencompleted, cost over $15,000. It would be an act of ingratitude not to mention that Text Appearing After Image: JERUSALEM, SCHWENXSVILLE NORRISTOWN CONFERENCE 209 in its building operations the congregation was won-derfully helped by the active co-operation and themoral and financial support, cheerfully given to it bymen and women of other communions of faith. Theground was broken for the new church at the cornerof Second and Church Streets near the middle ofSeptember, 1887. The corner-stone was laid on Octo-ber 9 of the same year, and the church was conse-crated on Easter Sunday, April 21, 1889, by the pas-tor, assisted by Rev. Jas. L. Becker, of Lansdale, andStudent E. T. Kretschmann, the newly elected pastorof the Trappe Church; Rev. Wra. Wackernagel, D.D.,of Muhlenberg College, preaching the sermon. Thisedifice, the first of a new order of churches in the Per-kiqmen Valley, stands as a monument to the labors andforesight of the now lamented Rev. O. P. Smith, D.D. During the summer of 1902 the pastor suggested tothe members of the church council the advisability ofbuilding a parsonage. The p Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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