History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . o have its now common name, Whitsunday,meaning White Sunday. Houses of Worship. At first private houses were usedto worship in. At Ephesus, Paul preached in a school-room.(Acts 19: 9.) The early churches were copied after the basilika,the court and exchange house. Hence they were interior of the larger ones was divided lengthwise by tworows of pillars into a nave and the two side aisles. The east endwas
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . o have its now common name, Whitsunday,meaning White Sunday. Houses of Worship. At first private houses were usedto worship in. At Ephesus, Paul preached in a school-room.(Acts 19: 9.) The early churches were copied after the basilika,the court and exchange house. Hence they were interior of the larger ones was divided lengthwise by tworows of pillars into a nave and the two side aisles. The east endwas recessed for the bishop, clergy and the choir. Membersoccupied the main floor, visitors the gallery. Many of these earlychurches were large. A part of the original Church of Bethle- MODI: ()!? WORSHIP hem, begun in 330, still stands, the oldest Christian building inthe world. Mode of Worship. At the entrance of the church stood alaver of water, a custom borrowed from the Jewish idea ofcleansing, in which, on entering, members washed their idea, in a changed form, survives in the holy water foundin some churches. The following description of a Sunday service. K.\ This church dates from 1854. The arch across the nave, whose face depicts thefour and twenty elders worshiping Christ, was saved from the former building, datingfrom the time of Constantine, and destroyed by fire 1823. Beneath the floor herelies part of the body of St. Paul. is from Justin Martyrs First Apology (Chap. 67), or defenseof the Christians, and addressed to the Emperor: On Sundayall who live in cities or in the country gather together to oneplace, and the Memoirs of the Apostles | /. <\, the Gospels], orthe books of the Prophets, are read as long as time , when the reader has ended, the president, in a discourse,instructs and exhorts to the imitation of these glorious we all rise together and send upwards our prayer; breadand wine and water art brought and the pr
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