. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. tion, bearing date of March 28, 1863,contains the following: Resolved, by the vestry ofsaid congregation that the pastor of said congregationbe requested to preach every other time in the Eng-lish language, if he has a right to do so. After the resignation of Rev. G. F. Miller, the Ger-man vestry engaged Rev. Carl Koerner to preach forthem until arrangements could be made for a regularpastor. On October 18, 1873, a consolidation of theGerman and English vestries was effected and articlesof agreement drawn up. The united congregationelected Oliver P. Smith, while st
. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. tion, bearing date of March 28, 1863,contains the following: Resolved, by the vestry ofsaid congregation that the pastor of said congregationbe requested to preach every other time in the Eng-lish language, if he has a right to do so. After the resignation of Rev. G. F. Miller, the Ger-man vestry engaged Rev. Carl Koerner to preach forthem until arrangements could be made for a regularpastor. On October 18, 1873, a consolidation of theGerman and English vestries was effected and articlesof agreement drawn up. The united congregationelected Oliver P. Smith, while still a student at thePhiladelphia Theological Seminary, in February orthe early part of March of 1874, on the basis of equal-services for both portions of the congregation. Justwhen the equal division of services gave way to alarger number of English ones it is impossible at thistime to state, but the present pastorate opened inMay, 1889, with two English services to one in Ger-man. The last German service was held on Decern-. ST. JAMES, UMERICK N0RRIST0WN CONFERENCE 105 ber 27, 1908. The question has often been raised:When were English services first introduced? It hasbeen variously answered, but we unhesitatingly reply:From the beginning, simultaneously with the German,for the first record book has this inscribed on the fly-leaf: Records of the Evangelical Lutheran EngHshand German Congregations of the Union Church inthe Township of Limerick, in the County of Mont-gomery, in the State of Pennsylvania. The church erected in 1817 was torn down in 1875and the erection of the new stone church begun in thefall of the same year. It was consecrated in the fallof the following year. In the summer of 1898 thechurch was renovated and the pipe organ, which hadbeen on the gallery, was brought down and placed tothe left of the pastor, as he occupies the pulpit. Dur-ing the year 1904 arrangements were made to replacethe old organ with a new two-manual pipe organ, con-taining fifteen full sp
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