An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . It was not confined to Lutheran limits, butwas crowded, \\ e are told, with English and Irish as well asGerman pupils. The teacher, Jacob Loeser, was organist andsexton as well, in which triple capacity he served many led the singing during the regular services and at funerals,-opened and closed the church, and had charge of the grave-yard, for all which he received a free dwelling in part of theschool-house, the free use of part of the scho
An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . It was not confined to Lutheran limits, butwas crowded, \\ e are told, with English and Irish as well asGerman pupils. The teacher, Jacob Loeser, was organist andsexton as well, in which triple capacity he served many led the singing during the regular services and at funerals,-opened and closed the church, and had charge of the grave-yard, for all which he received a free dwelling in part of theschool-house, the free use of part of the school lot, ten cords ofwood, half being hickory, and the sum of ten pounds of silver. 6 ©ID ITrinitis This school, hke those of the other churches in Lancaster, wasthe forerunner of the pubhc school, with whose opening theparochial schools ceased, and the buildings were rented to thetown for common school purposes. In June, 1749, the second convention of the Ministerium ofPennsyhania was held in Trinity Church. At Easter, 1750,the communicant membership of the congregation had reached243. In the spring of 1751, a call came from Germantown,. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, D. D. to which Pastor Handschuh responded, and on [May 5th hepreached his farewell sermon, having served the congregationas provisional pastor for three years. During 1751 and 1752, Trinity had no permanent pastor;the Rev. Tobias Wagner remaining scarcely a year, a studentby the name of Engeland filhng a brief interim, and the Wortmann giving but a few months of service, when heaccepted a call from the congregation at Reading. TReminleccnces The next regular pastor was the Rev. John Siegfried Gerock,who came to Lancaster in March, 1753. The church, at anearly date, had been enlarged; later, it had been repaired;and now, the foundation being unsafe, it was necessary eitherto make extensive improvements or to build a new vi«w of the rapid increase in membership, the duty of pro-viding a larger house
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