An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . eptance the vestry sent teams to German-town to bring his household effects to Lancaster by persons from each ward were appointed to accompany thenew pastor on his first round of visitation and introduce him tothe members of the Church. Dr. Baker preached his initial sermon in Trinity January 27, 1828, and on February loth he organized a Sunday-schoolsociety. On Tuesday evening, February 12th, a constitutionwas adopted ; February 17th the
An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . eptance the vestry sent teams to German-town to bring his household effects to Lancaster by persons from each ward were appointed to accompany thenew pastor on his first round of visitation and introduce him tothe members of the Church. Dr. Baker preached his initial sermon in Trinity January 27, 1828, and on February loth he organized a Sunday-schoolsociety. On Tuesday evening, February 12th, a constitutionwas adopted ; February 17th the Sunday-school was organizedby the appointment of a corps of teachers, and on Sunday, March 9th, the Sunday-school was formally opened. The firstSundays enrollment was 63 teachers and 413 pupils; thesecond Sundays enrollment, 74 teachers and 470 pupils. Up to this time the source of the pastors support had been avoluntary fund known as minister-money. But in 1832,the vestry authorized the renting of family pews in the gallery—a system which was extended to the body of the church in1836. In 1834, additional ground was secured extending the. John Christopher Baker, D. church property to Vine St., but which later passed into otherhands. As the work of the Sunday-school progressed, it be-came apparent that larger quarters were needed. In 1833,the vestry had granted the Sunday-school society permissionto erect a building at the southern end of the old stone school-house: in course of time a two-story brick edifice, containingtwo large rooms, stretched along Duke street toward Vine. 21 IReminlscenccs The Sunday-school Society had obhgated itself to raise themoney for this new enterprise; but falling short of their mark,the congregation in 1842 assumed the unpaid balance. In 1849,part of the church property was sold, in order that its proceedsmight be used in the purchase of a large outlying tract of landlor a cemetery; whereupon the cemetery committee purchasedthe plot
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