. History of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of East Pennsylvania : with brief sketches of its congregations . d ser-vices. Thus isolated, they lose interest in and love for the churchand her institutions, and their influence and beneficence are ina great measure lost to the cause of Christ. The number of ac-tive, communicant, and contributing members may be put downat from thirty to thirty-five. XLIII. ST. JAMES CHURCH, ASHLAND, SCHUYL-KILL COUNTY. BY REV. W. M. B. GLANDING. This congregation was organized by Rev. W. L. Heisler. Hehad been engaged in business at Minersville, Pa. The LebanonCon
. History of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of East Pennsylvania : with brief sketches of its congregations . d ser-vices. Thus isolated, they lose interest in and love for the churchand her institutions, and their influence and beneficence are ina great measure lost to the cause of Christ. The number of ac-tive, communicant, and contributing members may be put downat from thirty to thirty-five. XLIII. ST. JAMES CHURCH, ASHLAND, SCHUYL-KILL COUNTY. BY REV. W. M. B. GLANDING. This congregation was organized by Rev. W. L. Heisler. Hehad been engaged in business at Minersville, Pa. The LebanonConference, at its meeting in Harrisburg in March, 1858, re- 2l6 EAST PENNSYLVANIA SYNOD. quested him to visit Ashland, Pa., look after some English Luth-eran families which had moved there, and hold prayer-meetingsamong them. He arrived April 11 of that year, and conductedreligious services in a frame school-house on the corner of Fifthand Walnut streets. A Lutheran Sunday-school was organizedMay 2, with twenty-seven scholars and nine teachers, at thehome of Abel G. Swift, who was the first ST. JAMES EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ASHLAND, PA. The congregation itself was organized with fourteen membersJune 16. The first Church Council consisted of Geo. H. Helfrich,elder, and J. Logan, deacon. On December 6, 1859, the courtgranted the petition for a charter of incorporation with the legalname of English Evangelical Lutheran Church of church from its beginning has held all its services in theEnglish language. Rev. Heisler, having received ad interim license from C. Wedekind, D. D., President of East Pennsylvania Synod,and having prosecuted his theological studies privately, waslicensed by the Synod in the fall of 1858. He also visited SKETCHES OF CONGREGATIONS. 21 7 Ringtown and Millers school-house in Catawissa Valley, Gordon,Mt. Carmel and Locust Dale, respectively from three to twelvemiles distant. From these services held in school-houses seve
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