. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. Cressman, the Lutheran member of the BuildingCommittee, on September 9, 1854. Pastor Waage con-firmed the first class of catechumens in the spring of1857. The Rev. Oswin F. Waage succeeded his father aspastor. Until 1873, a period of six years, he servedthese people faithfully and on account of his large andlaborious parish he resigned this congregation, andwas succeeded by Pastor S. A. Ziegenfuss, who tookit with his Sellersville parish and brought the congre-gation back into the Synod by the adoption of the con-stitution recommended by the Synod. He was the pas-t
. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. Cressman, the Lutheran member of the BuildingCommittee, on September 9, 1854. Pastor Waage con-firmed the first class of catechumens in the spring of1857. The Rev. Oswin F. Waage succeeded his father aspastor. Until 1873, a period of six years, he servedthese people faithfully and on account of his large andlaborious parish he resigned this congregation, andwas succeeded by Pastor S. A. Ziegenfuss, who tookit with his Sellersville parish and brought the congre-gation back into the Synod by the adoption of the con-stitution recommended by the Synod. He was the pas-tor for three years and in the fall of 1876 he resignedto accept a call to the Bath-Howertown parish inNorthampton County, Pa. The Rev. James L. Becker was elected as his suc-cessor and on August 12, 1877, he was installed in thischurch by Revs. J. F. Ohl and W. B. Fox. He servedthe parish for a period of more than eleven years,when in November, 1888, at the recommendation ofConference the parish was divided. He resigned NORRISTOWN CONFERENCE 195 Johns and St. Michaels congregations of the parish toaccept a call to the Lansdale charge. This parish, continued as the Sellersville a call to J. H. Waidelich, who was then astudent at the Theological Seminary, and on the 23rdof June, 1889, one week after his ordination, he wasinstalled in St. Michaels Church, Sellersville, by L. Becker and H. S. Fegley, and served the congre-gation until October, 1916, when it united with Jeru-salem congregation, Ridge Road, to form the RidgeParish—St. Michaels having become a self-sustainingparish in response to the Conference continued as supply until his successor was named. The charter recommended by the Ministerium wasadopted in 1891 and the congregation assumed thename St. Johns of Ridge Valley. The question of re-pairs and enlargement of the building was agitated forseveral years, which finally resulted in the adoption ofthe following resolution
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