An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . r, anunfaihng friend. In short, he was a good man—one who re-joiced in every good thing—one who lived in a devotionalspirit at all times. And so, like Enoch of old, he walked with(lod and was not, for God took him. On January 4, 1886, the assistant pastor, the Rev. CharlesL. Fry, was chosen as Dr. Greenwalds successor. He wasduly inducted into office on February 14th, the Rev. Dr. JacobFry, of Reading, preaching the installation sermon. The Theologic
An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . r, anunfaihng friend. In short, he was a good man—one who re-joiced in every good thing—one who lived in a devotionalspirit at all times. And so, like Enoch of old, he walked with(lod and was not, for God took him. On January 4, 1886, the assistant pastor, the Rev. CharlesL. Fry, was chosen as Dr. Greenwalds successor. He wasduly inducted into office on February 14th, the Rev. Dr. JacobFry, of Reading, preaching the installation sermon. The Theological Seminary in Philadelphia at this time wasenlisting the best energies of the Synod, and Trinity Church, 39 TReminiscencce with characteristic promptness, responded with an offering ofnearly two thousand dollars. On December 6, 1886, planswere submitted to the ^estry for a new organ. The contractwas entered into early the following spring, and on SeptemberI ith the new organ was dedicated. The original frame was oncemore wisely retained, the central part of which dates back to1771. In the early part of 1887 the General Councils Church. Rev. Charles L. Book with Music was formally adopted and directed to beused in the church service during all seasons of the year. Muhlenberg Day, commemorative of the hfe and laborsof the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, was cele-brated with an appropriate ser\ice at Trinity Church October9, 1887, the Sunday-schools of Grace and Christ Churches par-ticipating with that of Trinity in the exercises. On November7th a member of the Church, who desired his name to. be 40 ©ID ^rinft^ unknown, on looking about for an object of special beneficence,discovered that the Sunday-school badly needed an organ: hegenerously presented one for the use of the school at its small tablet graces the side of the church, a memorial toThomas Wharton, Jr. It is inscribed as follows : In Memoriam Thomas Wharton, Jr., First Presid
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