. History of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of East Pennsylvania : with brief sketches of its congregations . ST. MATTHEWS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. Rev. Theophilus Stork, of Winchester, Va., became pastor inOctober, 1841. With his advent there came a new era of pros-perity. Faithful labor, earnest evangelic methods, able and edi-fying ministrations in public and in private, brought gratifying re-sults. The influence and the revenues of the church were largely SKETCHES OF CONGREGATIONS. 145 increased. Additions were numerous, new fields of operationwere needed and soon found,
. History of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of East Pennsylvania : with brief sketches of its congregations . ST. MATTHEWS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. Rev. Theophilus Stork, of Winchester, Va., became pastor inOctober, 1841. With his advent there came a new era of pros-perity. Faithful labor, earnest evangelic methods, able and edi-fying ministrations in public and in private, brought gratifying re-sults. The influence and the revenues of the church were largely SKETCHES OF CONGREGATIONS. 145 increased. Additions were numerous, new fields of operationwere needed and soon found, and a cluster of new organizationswas the result, culminating in the establishment of St. Marks Lu-theran church on Spring Garden street, above Thirteenth, of whichRev. Stork became pastor, resigning St. Matthews in 1850. W. Hutter was installed pastor of St. Matthews September,1850, and rendered an unbroken service of twenty-three was admirably qualified for the field to which he was his fostering care its energies were quickened into vigor-ous life, and enterprise after
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