The Old Trappe Church: A Memorial of the Sesqui-Centennial Services of Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Old Trappe Church: A Memorial of the Sesqui-Centennial Services of Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Although the Old Trappe Church is objectively the property of a specific congregation, it is in 'no indefinite sense the heritage of the Lutheran Church; because that of which it is the monumental exponent cannot be confined to a merely local interest. It witnesses not merely to the founding of a separate congregation, but in a large sense' to the planting of the Lutheran Church in America; it witnesses not only to the heroic labo'rs of a certain pastor, but to the consecration and self sacrifice of the Patriarch of the Lutheran Church iii-america. The sesqui-centennial of this venerable temple, therefore, while relating immediately to a circumscribed sphere, can be justly interpreted as memorial not simply of a Lutheran Church, but of the Lutheran Church..

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