History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . turned frequently to Somerset during the next few years,served awhile twenty to thirty German families as pastor, free,buying for them an old church. During a visit, winter of 1866-67, he settled a church dispute in the Cumberland was present at Fort Wayne, Ind., 1866, as president and dele-gate from Minnesota Synod, and with that Synod later joined theGeneral HEYER He accompanied Pastor Hent
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . turned frequently to Somerset during the next few years,served awhile twenty to thirty German families as pastor, free,buying for them an old church. During a visit, winter of 1866-67, he settled a church dispute in the Cumberland was present at Fort Wayne, Ind., 1866, as president and dele-gate from Minnesota Synod, and with that Synod later joined theGeneral HEYER He accompanied Pastor Hentz, of Somerset, to Bedford, toattend the 350th anniversary of the Reformation, January, 1868,walking ten miles because of a broken sleigh. In June, he sailedwith a granddaughter for (iermanv. where the latter was tostudy. In [869, news came to him there that an effort was beingmade to transfer the Guntur mission from the General Synodto the Church Missionary Society (Episcopalian), of prevent this, he returned to Pennsylvania, met with the Gen-eral Synod, Reading, May, 1869. When no minister wouldvolunteer to go to Guntur, although seventy-seven years old, he. MONUMENT OF REV. C. F. HEYER, FRIEDEXS, PA. crosses the Atlantic the tenth time and saves the mission forour Church. He returns in 1871, and from Somerset, August 8,1871, writes: God still grants me health and prosperity. Thismercy I have not deserved, and I must often wonder at it that I,in my seventy-ninth year, am yet so well and strong. He presented to the meeting of the General Council, at Roch-ester, N. Y., the subject of foreign missions; preached in Phila-delphia for Dr. Mann, better, according to that pastor, than hedid twenty years before. In May, 1872, we find him at Frost-burg with Mrs. Steger, a daughter; in June, at Bakersville with 205 MISSIONARY WORK OF ALLEGHANY SYNOD Henry Schlag; then in Philadelphia at the meeting of the Minis-terium. In that autumn, he is chosen chaplain of Mt. Airy-Seminar
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