History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ryretirement in 1905. My father died on May 12, 1911, in Gettys-burg, Pa. During his many years of service to the church, he served formany years as a member of the Board of Publication, and asdirector of the Gettysburg Theological Seminary. He was alsopresident of the East Pennsylvania Synod for three years. The Office of Missionary SuperintendentAt the first meeting of the Synod the following resolution waspassed:226
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ryretirement in 1905. My father died on May 12, 1911, in Gettys-burg, Pa. During his many years of service to the church, he served formany years as a member of the Board of Publication, and asdirector of the Gettysburg Theological Seminary. He was alsopresident of the East Pennsylvania Synod for three years. The Office of Missionary SuperintendentAt the first meeting of the Synod the following resolution waspassed:226 COLLINS Resolved, That the executive committee of Synod, viz., thepresident, secretary and treasurer be authorized to engage theservices of a missionary until the next regular meeting of Synod,if a suitable person can be found to visit the vacant congrega-tions in our bounds and that we will stand obligated for hissupport during that time, provided, however, that all collectionsraised among the*vacant congregations shall be considered a partof his salary. Apparently no person was found for this office for half acentury. And the splendid missionary work of this Synod was. REV. B. B. COLLINS carried on for forty years by a Missionary Committee of theSynod, the funds secured by the Missionary Society. Beginningwith the first meeting of 1842, when $100 was voted to theEnglish Lutheran Church of Pittsburgh, Synod voted in 1843 toraise $500. Numerous charges were helped from this time on-ward. On our territory, such as Karthaus, Brookville, WillsCreek, Cherry Tree, Jefferson, Glasgow, Germany, Cassville,-t Comity, etc.; and in Nebraska many congregations re-ceived gifts until 1870. when the work in the West was assumedby the General Synod and gradually mosl of our mission funds 227 MISSIONARY WORK OF ALLEGHANY SYNOD was sent to these Boards. At the meeting of Synod in Berlinin 1890, the president appointed a committee, consisting of D. Weigle, H. M. Oberholtzer, J. F. Hartman
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