History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . us a visit and also attend to the sacramentuntil either congregation is in a condition to build a comfortablechurch. It is a fact worthy of note, that these Fathers considered re-ligion fundamental in education. Hence the provision they madefor religious education. And we believe we are true to the Bible,and true to the best traditions of our Church, when we unitereligion and education. Whether a Lutheran pastor labored
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . us a visit and also attend to the sacramentuntil either congregation is in a condition to build a comfortablechurch. It is a fact worthy of note, that these Fathers considered re-ligion fundamental in education. Hence the provision they madefor religious education. And we believe we are true to the Bible,and true to the best traditions of our Church, when we unitereligion and education. Whether a Lutheran pastor labored in this field prior to theabove date is unknown. Baptisms are recorded previous to this 549 SOMERSET CONFERENCE time, but who performed them is not stated. We have the recordof John Wolf Litzel, who was the first minister to labor withinthe bounds of the Alleghany Synod. The following is a part ofwhat is written in the record: Nomine Domini Patris FiliusSpiritus: Soli Dei Gloria, written by me, ordained teacher andpreacher of the Evangelical Lutheran doctrine according to theAugsburg Confession. J. W. Litzel. It is a remarkable fact that so early in the history of our. TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, BERLIN, PA. Church we should have a man who declared his adherence to theAugsburg Confession. It is even more remarkable when weremember that this record was for both the Reformed andLutheran Churches. This was forty-three years before the Gen-eral Synod was organized, and thirty-five years after Muhlenbergreached Philadelphia to begin his great work for the LutheranChurch in America. It is supposed that Rev. Litzel labored here until sometime in550 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN, BERLIN the eighties. Whether an organization was effected during hisstay here we have no means of knowing. On April 4, 1786, the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsyl-vania granted to Jacob Keffer, in trust for the Calvinist andLutheran Churches for the use of schools, a tract of land con-taining forty and one-half acres
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