. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. life andin the springtime of its activities. We look thereforeinto the future with the confident hope that for it,under the guidance of the great Head of the Church,there are better things to come. ST. MICHAELS, SELLERSVILLE CHURCH members, living in this village fifty yearsago, did not enjoy a convenient place of wor-ship. This condition proved a stimulus to providefor themselves and their children some place for pub-lic services and religious instruction. Already, there-fore, in the year 1859 the Rev. F. Berkemeyer, pastorof the Hilltown parish, conducted service
. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. life andin the springtime of its activities. We look thereforeinto the future with the confident hope that for it,under the guidance of the great Head of the Church,there are better things to come. ST. MICHAELS, SELLERSVILLE CHURCH members, living in this village fifty yearsago, did not enjoy a convenient place of wor-ship. This condition proved a stimulus to providefor themselves and their children some place for pub-lic services and religious instruction. Already, there-fore, in the year 1859 the Rev. F. Berkemeyer, pastorof the Hilltown parish, conducted services in the oldschool-house and a few years later when the Rev. located in the town both pastors conducted Luth-eran services here as also the German Reformed pastorFisher. An impracticable suggestion to build a church mid-way between this place and South Perkasie (thenknown as Bridgetown) induced our people in April1868 to take steps to> erect a church building withinthe limits of this town. In consequence a tract of. ST. MICHAEl/s, SELLERSVILLE N0RRIST0WN CONFERENCE 215 three acres of land was purchased from Mr. WilliamSchlichter and divided into cemetery lots and offeredfor sale. In less than two years the proceeds warrant-ed the erection of a union church. It was decided toconstruct the building of native stone which a jointcommittee of Lutherans and Reformed arranged toquarry in a field near by. The corner-stone was laid on May 28, 1870, bypastors YYalz and Berkemeyer (Lutheran) and (Reformed). The church building was finish-ed but for lack of funds the lecture room only wasfurnished and here religious services were regularlyheld. The first class of catechumens was confirmedby the Rev. F. Walz on November 3, 1872. After acomplete organization of the congregation the needof more frequent services was felt and in order tosatisfy this a parish connection was sought and found. The First District Conference of the Minis-terium of Pennsylvania honored a petitio
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