History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . Des Moines, 1901, Atchison, 1913. President Pitts-burgh Synod, G. S., 1912-1914. Matthew Garner Boyer, Chicago, 111. I was born at JamesCreek, Pa., now Marklesburg, March to, 1839. I am the son ofHenry and Susan Boyer. My mothers maiden name was SusanGarner. I was baptized by Rev. Ellinger, and confirmed by Rightmyer. I attended public school and select school atMarklesburg. I taught in the public school one t
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . Des Moines, 1901, Atchison, 1913. President Pitts-burgh Synod, G. S., 1912-1914. Matthew Garner Boyer, Chicago, 111. I was born at JamesCreek, Pa., now Marklesburg, March to, 1839. I am the son ofHenry and Susan Boyer. My mothers maiden name was SusanGarner. I was baptized by Rev. Ellinger, and confirmed by Rightmyer. I attended public school and select school atMarklesburg. I taught in the public school one term. I enteredPrep, for Pennsylvania College in fall of 1859. Graduated fromcollege in 1865 and entered the Theological Seminary, Gettys-790 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES burg. I enlisted for the emergency in the student companywhich formed a part of the (Company A) Twenty-sixth Regi-ment of the Pennsylvania Reserves. A statue marks the placein Gettysburg where this company formed in line to go out tomeet the enemy. My name is inscribed on the monument erectedby the State of Pennsylvania in honor to all who took part inBattle of Gettysburg. When I came to the age when I should. REV. M. G. BOYER, take my place in the Church, instead of inviting me to come tothe catechism class to learn what to believe and to do, they invitedme to come to the mourners bench, to mourn, wrestle and pray,and pray more earnestly, and to believe, without anything to be-lieve except that God would give me some tangible evidence thatmy sins were pardoned. Many of our ministers had no usefor the catechism, but used the mourners bench system. This 791 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES confused me so that I did not know what to do when I enteredthe ministry. I took good care that others should not get intothat condition, and if they were in, to get them out. I had lotsof scraps in Conferences on this subject. The rupture in theGeneral Synod came the year I entered the ministry. I feltsure that the fact that many of our m
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