History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . e of ground, for the use ofthe Lutheran congregation at Pine Hill Church. The firsthouse of worship was placed in what is now the cemetery, andwas likely erected that summer. As the first pastors name was Michael, and he had been or-dained in St. Michaels Church, Philadelphia, and as that wasalso the name of the first two trustees, it likely came natural toname the church St. Michael. 619 SOMERSET CONFERENCE February 9,
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . e of ground, for the use ofthe Lutheran congregation at Pine Hill Church. The firsthouse of worship was placed in what is now the cemetery, andwas likely erected that summer. As the first pastors name was Michael, and he had been or-dained in St. Michaels Church, Philadelphia, and as that wasalso the name of the first two trustees, it likely came natural toname the church St. Michael. 619 SOMERSET CONFERENCE February 9, 1818, the Perm heirs granted to George Walkerand George Hay, trustees for the German Lutheran and Ger-man Reformed congregations, respectively, at Pine Hill, twenty-three acres of land which had been left vacant by the settlersfor school and church purposes. In 1842, members of the congregation living towards theCastleman River considered it convenient and advisable, for thesake of the scattered membership, to erect a church nearer St. Paul Church thus originated, and a number of memberswithdrew here. In 1847, an act of the Legislature was passed which allowed. PINE HILL UNION CHURCH the selling of twenty acres of the land secured in 1818. Accord-ingly, there- was built in 1848 with the money, the Union brickchurch, owned jointly by the Lutherans and the Reformed people,these latter having worshiped hitherto in Berlin. It was 40 by26 feet, had a gallery on three sides and a high pulpit, after thestyle of those days. The cost was $1,000. The two congregations apparently got along harmoniously untilthe pastorate of Rev. Eli Fare, 1851-1854. This pastor appar-ently had zeal, but not according to knowledge. He was moreenthusiastic for the revival methods of the time than his congre-620 ST. MICHAELS, PINE HILL gation, and thus he estranged some. But he showed on two par-ticular occasions serious and fatal lack of judgment and preaching on missions, an influentia
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