History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, with Brief Sketches of its Congregations . avored in obtaining the services ofso able a divine and acceptable a preacher as Dr. Krauth, theysoon emerged from their unsatisfactory surroundings in the oldacademy, and for nearly fifty years worshiped in the church on Newstreet. The ministry of Dr. Krauth continued from 1827 to 1833,when he was called to Gettysburg, Pa., and placed over the newly-chartered Pennsylvania College as its President. An interval ofsome months occurred before a successor was secured, duringwhich time the pul
History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, with Brief Sketches of its Congregations . avored in obtaining the services ofso able a divine and acceptable a preacher as Dr. Krauth, theysoon emerged from their unsatisfactory surroundings in the oldacademy, and for nearly fifty years worshiped in the church on Newstreet. The ministry of Dr. Krauth continued from 1827 to 1833,when he was called to Gettysburg, Pa., and placed over the newly-chartered Pennsylvania College as its President. An interval ofsome months occurred before a successor was secured, duringwhich time the pulpit was occupied by the Rev. Simeon VV. Har-key, then only a theological student. Rev. Jacob Medtart, ofMartinsburg, Va., took pastoral charge of St. Matthews in No- 142 EAST PENNSYLVANIA SYNOD. vember, 1834. His ministry was attended with no little congre-gational agitation and disturbance, and terminated in 1838. A. Mealy, of Savannah, Ga., then took charge, but hisviews and methods were not entirely acceptable to many of thecongregation, so that a mutual separation was not long ST. MATTHEWS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. Rev. Theophilus Stork, of Winchester, Va., became pastor inOctober, 1841. With his advent there came a new era of pros-perity. Faithful labor, earnest evangelic methods, able and edi-fying ministrations in public and in private, brought gratifying re-sults. The influence and the revenues of the church were largely SKETCHES OF CONGREGATIONS. 143 increased. Additions were numerous, new fields of operationwere needed and soon found, and a cluster of new organizationswas the result, culminating in the establishment of St. Marks Lu-theran church on Spring Garden street, above Thirteenth, of whichRev. Stork became pastor, resigning St. Matthews in 1850. W. Hutter was installed pastor of St. Matthews September,1850, and rendered an unbroken service of twenty-three was admirably qualified for the field to which he
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