History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . t, 1876. During 1878, two communionswere held by members of Conference assigned to the duty. Prog-ress was slow. The congregation was very small. The Sundayschool, however, under the fostering care of Mr. and , George Tilp, Mr. Kessler and Baltzar Walter, continuedto flourish, there being no other one in the town. In 1876 Mr. 631 SOMERSET CONFERENCE Tilp, who had attended the Centennial in Philadelphia, broughtb
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . t, 1876. During 1878, two communionswere held by members of Conference assigned to the duty. Prog-ress was slow. The congregation was very small. The Sundayschool, however, under the fostering care of Mr. and , George Tilp, Mr. Kessler and Baltzar Walter, continuedto flourish, there being no other one in the town. In 1876 Mr. 631 SOMERSET CONFERENCE Tilp, who had attended the Centennial in Philadelphia, broughtback some Augsburg helps, and by their introduction made theschool Lutheran. The school was open all year, had an at-tendance of about fifty, with collections from one cent to twenty-five cents. The secretary during 1879 was C. J. Ringer, Lutheranpastor now at Council Bluffs, Iowa, the only son of the congre-gation in the ministry so far. Kessler and Walter were exhorters of unusual power. Aboutthis time they conducted a thirteen weeks mourners benchrevival. Seventy persons professed conversion. During 1878-1879, fi^y adults joined the congregation, making the total mem-. MT. TABOR LUTHERAN CHURCH, OF IQI4, GARRETT, PA. bership sixty-three. Rev. John Unruh, of Centerville, whopreached occasionally during 1879-1881, and Rev. Poffenberger,received these converts. In 1881 the congregation and Sundayschool each numbered seventy-six. Rev. J. B. Shoup supplied,January 10, 1882. to April 1, 1883. A debt unprovided for atthe time of the dedication amounted at this time to $253, heldagainst the church by Baltzar Walter. It was paid in full, outof friendship for the members, by Peter P. H. Walker, of the congregation. About this time Mr. Walter withdrew andopened in a private house another Sunday school, from which de-632 MT. TABOR, GARRETT veloped the Evangelical congregation. Occasional services were conducted by pastors appointed byconference during 1883. Rev. J. M. Snyder, of
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