History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . This charge has successfully withstood satan for about seventy-five years, and no man can tell what has been done for God. Timealone can efface it and bring its labors to an end. MT. ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH MEYERSDALE, PA. Rev. J. Luther Fronts, PastorEarly in 1851, Rev. Elias Fair, of Berlin, began holding serv-ices here in the Red Schoolhouse, on the High School grounds,696 AIT. Z10N, MEYERSDALE and organized
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . This charge has successfully withstood satan for about seventy-five years, and no man can tell what has been done for God. Timealone can efface it and bring its labors to an end. MT. ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH MEYERSDALE, PA. Rev. J. Luther Fronts, PastorEarly in 1851, Rev. Elias Fair, of Berlin, began holding serv-ices here in the Red Schoolhouse, on the High School grounds,696 AIT. Z10N, MEYERSDALE and organized a Lutheran congregation. Later the lot on NorthMain Street was purchased jointly by the Lutheran and Re-formed people, for $125, the deed received November 11, 1854,and the union church which had been erected, dedicated (perhapsSeptember 3, 1854), with the name of Amity. The buildingcommittee consisted of Levi Heckart, John Bowers, FrederickMeasman, Adolphus Just, Conrad M. Hicks. The followingpersons were members: Joseph Keim, Peter Kessler, Catharinedinger, Margaret Shultz, Mary A. Albright, John J. Hicks,Catharine Geary, Catharine Walker, Elizabeth Keim, Frederick. ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, MEYERSDALE Smearman, Alexander Walker, Christopher Shiver, CatharineHerring, Wilhelmina Smearman, Miss Harriet Hicks, Miss Bar-bara Yorty, Miss Mary E. Yorty. The building was a single story, frame, 40 by 30 feet, withbelfry, bell and spire, and cost about $2,800. Considerable fundswere secured in Baltimore by Conrad Hicks. For more thantwenty years this building was used on alternate Sundays by theLutheran and Reformed congregations. In 1857, Mr. SimonBittner, a Lutheran, was elected a deacon by the joint vote ofboth; pastors were supported also conjointly, without referenceto creed, evidences of amity in more than name. This buildingis now a private residence. October 28, 1865; Rev. John Forthman reorganized the Luther- 697 SOMERSET CONFERENCE ans under the name of St. James Ev
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