. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . chool, organized on June 8, 1889; a weekly PrayerMeeting held in the church; a Christian Workers Meeting 340 THE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN. organized August i, 1909, and a Sisters Aid Society, or-ganized August 9, 1902. The latter has done much in apractical way and has as its officers: President, Emma Hil-debrand; Vice-President, Emma K. Seltzer; Secretary, Ger-trude Shirk; Treasurer, Alice Taylor. The church has a temperance committee consisting ofJ. K. Mohler, H.
. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . chool, organized on June 8, 1889; a weekly PrayerMeeting held in the church; a Christian Workers Meeting 340 THE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN. organized August i, 1909, and a Sisters Aid Society, or-ganized August 9, 1902. The latter has done much in apractical way and has as its officers: President, Emma Hil-debrand; Vice-President, Emma K. Seltzer; Secretary, Ger-trude Shirk; Treasurer, Alice Taylor. The church has a temperance committee consisting ofJ. K. Mohler, H. G. Mentzer and S. W. Martin. The mis-sionary committee of this congregation consists of J. , J. M. Neff and Miles Keller, and in 1912 was instru-mental in raising $900 for missions. Elders in charge of Second Ephrata Congregation: I. , September 2, 1899, to April 10, 1909; David Kil-hefner, 1909 to present time. Ministerial Meetings held in Ephrata Congregation are asfollows: November 2, 3, 1904; October 26, , 1910. Spe-cial District Meeting, September 21, 1910. District Meet-ing of 1913 was also held BRETHREN CHURCH, LANCASTER. CHAPTER CITY CHURCH. Lancaster City Congregation of the Church of the Breth-ren was organized on October 29, 1891, from territory andmembers belonging to the West Conestoga August 19, 1872, the West Conestoga Congregationthrough and by her trustees, Jacob Minnich, Joseph Pfautzand John W. Byrne, bought a church property located onnorthwest corner of Mulberry and Grant Streets, Lancaster,Pa., belonging to the Evangelical Association of Lancaster,Pa. The Brethren first held meetings every eight weeksand later every six weeks, largely in the German languageuntil the time of organization in 1891. The elders presentat time of organization were: Jacob Hackman, Elder ofWest Conestoga Church, B. Z. Eby, Wm. Hertzler, H. , J. S. Newcomer, Samuel Harley, and S. R. S. R. Zug, of Mastersonville
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