An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . Someof the officers went to see this wonderful piece of mechanism,and sent descriptions of it to their homes. Manufacturer hadmade every part of it with his own hands. It had not onlyevery pipe and stop, but had some pipes of amazing circumfer-ence, and had keys to be played by the feet in addition to theregular keys. The labors of this man of God were simply marvellous. Hepreached forenoon and afternoon, every Sunday-—the latterservice being followe
An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . Someof the officers went to see this wonderful piece of mechanism,and sent descriptions of it to their homes. Manufacturer hadmade every part of it with his own hands. It had not onlyevery pipe and stop, but had some pipes of amazing circumfer-ence, and had keys to be played by the feet in addition to theregular keys. The labors of this man of God were simply marvellous. Hepreached forenoon and afternoon, every Sunday-—the latterservice being followed by Kinderlehre, to which the childrenflocked by the hundreds. After Kinderlehre, at five oclock, TReminiscences he invited the children to the school-house, where he readthem short stories, extracts from good books, and the like; andthen he preached his third sermon in the evening. There wasalso a service on Thursday evening, the rest of the pastorstime being devoted to the work of the school and the visitationof the sick. In addition to this, he preached every four or fiveweeks at Middletown, about twentv-five miles distant, revived. Just Henry Christian Helmuth, D. the parish school there, and appointed the schoolmaster to reada chapter of Arndts True Christianity every Sunday morning,and to catechize the children in the afternoon. No wonder hisfriends urged him not to preach so often, for fear he wouldruin his health. In all his pastorate, Dr. Helmuth maintaineda strict discipline, which subjected him to harsh criticism and,at times, bitter opposition. But he lived courageously throughit all; and in 1773, though the church could comfortably seat 12
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