. History of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of East Pennsylvania : with brief sketches of its congregations . urch on Ridge avenue,near Twenty-fifth street, October 28, 1883, which was addressedby Rev. L. E. Albert, D. D., Rev. W. M. Baum, D. D., Rev. , and Rev. J. H. Menges. This meeting proved a greatstimulus toward a permanent organization, which was effectedNovember 4, 1883, with eighteen members, in a hall at No. 2529Ridge avenue. Rev. John R. WiUiams became pastor, and held the first regularservice in the aforesaid hall the same day. He was formally installed as pastor, January 3,
. History of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of East Pennsylvania : with brief sketches of its congregations . urch on Ridge avenue,near Twenty-fifth street, October 28, 1883, which was addressedby Rev. L. E. Albert, D. D., Rev. W. M. Baum, D. D., Rev. , and Rev. J. H. Menges. This meeting proved a greatstimulus toward a permanent organization, which was effectedNovember 4, 1883, with eighteen members, in a hall at No. 2529Ridge avenue. Rev. John R. WiUiams became pastor, and held the first regularservice in the aforesaid hall the same day. He was formally installed as pastor, January 3, 1884. A con-stitution for the better government of the newly-formed congre-gation was adopted on Wednesday evening, January 23, 1884. At a congregational meeting held September 21, 1884, it wasresolved to make formal application to be received into, and be- 28o EAST PENNSYLVANIA SYNOD. come an integral part of, the East Pennsylvania Synod. This re-solution, with a formal application, was presented to Synod, whichwas then in session at Easton, Pa., by R. I. Heim, and the con-gregation regularly BETHANY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA, PA. On December i, 1884, by action of a committee appointed forthe purpose, of which R. I. Heim was chairman, the lot at thecorner of Twenty-fifth street and Montgomery avenue was pur-chased, for the sum of ^7, On January 5, 1885, the congregation was incorporated underthe corporate title of The Memorial Lutheran Church of Phila-delphia. At a congregational meeting held June 10,1885, it was resolvedto erect a chapel on the recently purchased lot, whereupon Rev. SKETCHES OF CONGREGATIONS. 281 J. R. Williams, Lewis H. Bolton, C. F. Reinstein, R. I. Heim andC. E. Bauder were appointed a building committee to carry outthe design of the congregation. Accordingly, a contract wasentered into with J. M. Anderson, of Philadelphia, for the erec-tion of a stone chapel forty by seventy feet, for the sum of;?6,, which sum was
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