. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. oing the work of schoolmaster during the he struggled with the overwhelming task. Heconstantly entreated the fathers to send him co-work-ers, and was finally rewarded with the assurance ofassistance. This was realized when on January 26,1745, Peter Brunnholtz, J. N. Kurtz and J. H. Schaumlanded in Philadelphia. It was a memorable day, redo-lent with joy and the source of a new inspiration. Brunnholtz first preached at New Providence onFebruary 7, 1745. After five months, on account ofhis delicate health, he was assigned to the congrega-tions in Philadelp
. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. oing the work of schoolmaster during the he struggled with the overwhelming task. Heconstantly entreated the fathers to send him co-work-ers, and was finally rewarded with the assurance ofassistance. This was realized when on January 26,1745, Peter Brunnholtz, J. N. Kurtz and J. H. Schaumlanded in Philadelphia. It was a memorable day, redo-lent with joy and the source of a new inspiration. Brunnholtz first preached at New Providence onFebruary 7, 1745. After five months, on account ofhis delicate health, he was assigned to the congrega-tions in Philadelphia and Germantown, while Muhlen-berg served the country congregations. Havingpreviously purchased a plot of ground, Muhlenbergnow took up his residence in Trappe, and commencedthe building of a house. During his early visits to the/Lutheran congregation in Tulpehocken he becameacquainted with J. Conrad Weiser, Jr., the govern-ment interpreter and Indian agent, and incidentallyalso with his daughter, Anna Maria, whom he mar-. NORRISTOWN CONFERENCE 263 ried April 22, 1745, and moved into his new house atTrappe. From the beginning he labored and planned for theChurch, not for the congregation only. The first ser-vices were very simple. He says: The sermon occu-pies about an hour or three-quarters. Afterward Icatechise the whole congregation on the subject of thesermon. In order to dignify the service and establishthe use of uniform ceremonies, form and words in allthe congregations, he held a conference with Brunn-holtz and Handshuh in 1747 to arrange the first lit-urgy for the Lutheran Church in America. The lit-urgy of the Savoy congregation of London was usedas a basis to conciliate the minds of widely differingopinions arising from local usage and custom in theFatherland, where almost every country town had itsown. This was adopted shortly afterward by Synodwith little opposition. In 1749 Benjamin Franklin print-ed Luthers Catechism in German for use in the congre-gation. He
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