History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, with Brief Sketches of its Congregations . iah Lutheran church, Philadelphia, had its origin in aSunday-school established December 18, 1859, by members ofSt. Matthews Lutheran church, during the pastorship of Dr. E. In honor of its first and devoted superintendent, C. , it was named, The Barlow Mission of St. Matthewschurch. The school was carried on for six years before any de-cided steps could be taken toward organizing a several preliminary meetings, a public meeting was heldDecember 12, 18
History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, with Brief Sketches of its Congregations . iah Lutheran church, Philadelphia, had its origin in aSunday-school established December 18, 1859, by members ofSt. Matthews Lutheran church, during the pastorship of Dr. E. In honor of its first and devoted superintendent, C. , it was named, The Barlow Mission of St. Matthewschurch. The school was carried on for six years before any de-cided steps could be taken toward organizing a several preliminary meetings, a public meeting was heldDecember 12, 1865, at Thirteenth and Oxford streets, atwhich it was determined to rent a hall on Broad street and tohold prayer-meetings regularly in the same. During January,1866, the organization of the congregation was completed by the SKETCHES OF CONGREGATIONS. 239 adoption of a constitution and the election of church the name of Messiah Lutheran Church, the congregationwas admitted into the Synod of East Pennsylvania in the fall of1866, Dr. Theophilus Stork, Sen., representing it at that MESSIAH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Regular services were held for nearly a year by means of suchsupplies as could be procured, until November 1, 1866, when W. Conrad took charge of the congregation, thus becoming itsfirst pastor. Under his ministrations the church grew rapidly innumbers and in influence, the main part of the present house ofworship was erected, at the southwest corner of Sixteenth andJefferson streets, and the services hitherto held in a hall nearby were, in the early part of 1870, transferred to its Sunday-school 24O EAST PENNSYLVANIA SYNOD. room. After serving the congregation for a term of six years, resigned the pastorship of the church, and was succeededin December, 1872, by Rev. J. R. Dimm. In consequence of reverses in business among some of themembers, the congregation had become severely crippled in itsfinancial affair
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