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A HISTORY OF THE ZION CHURCH OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE 1755-1897
A HISTORY OF THE ZION CHURCH OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE 1755-1897
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While the following account is anonymous, a comparison of the handwriting with that of letters of Dr. Wiesenthal makes it probable that this is the work of this prominent member of the early congregation. The letters referred to being in English, while the present account is in German script, a definite conclusion cannot be reached.
A FEW years after the city of Baltimore was laid out, several German families betook themselves thither to live, of which Mr. Vitus Hartweg, harness-maker, was the very first. They were mostly of our Lutheran confession. And although after awhile more of both Lutherans and Reformed gathered there, they were too few to establish a congregation. Therefore the members of both confessions had for their edification to put up with sermons of itinerant preachers, often of bad reputation and conduct, until at last the congregation had so far increased, that a preacher, for little money, came six or eight times a year from Pennsylvania to this town and performed both preaching and administration of Holy Supper.
These devotional meetings, in commendable harmony, were for some years held in the English church, until baleful envy, or I do not know what, caused the interdiction of further use of the church, whereupon there had to be considered means by which worship could be continued.
The first regularly officiating pastor was the Rev. Mr. Johann Georg Bager, who for three consecutive years came down from Pennsylvania six times a year, administering the spiritual functions in preaching and sacraments, and enjoying from this not more than five pounds per year. This was next to nothing indeed, as a reward for the painstaking of a spiritual guide. The congregation, however, consisting only of eleven persons and the majority of them having no superfluous means, the good man was satisfied with it until the journey of over sixty miles became too arduous for him and he accepted another call.
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While the following account is anonymous, a comparison of the handwriting with that of letters of Dr. Wiesenthal makes it probable that this is the work of this prominent member of the early congregation. The letters referred to being in English, while the present account is in German script, a definite conclusion cannot be reached.
A FEW years after the city of Baltimore was laid out, several German families betook themselves thither to live, of which Mr. Vitus Hartweg, harness-maker, was the very first. They were mostly of our Lutheran confession. And although after awhile more of both Lutherans and Reformed gathered there, they were too few to establish a congregation. Therefore the members of both confessions had for their edification to put up with sermons of itinerant preachers, often of bad reputation and conduct, until at last the congregation had so far increased, that a preacher, for little money, came six or eight times a year from Pennsylvania to this town and performed both preaching and administration of Holy Supper.
These devotional meetings, in commendable harmony, were for some years held in the English church, until baleful envy, or I do not know what, caused the interdiction of further use of the church, whereupon there had to be considered means by which worship could be continued.
The first regularly officiating pastor was the Rev. Mr. Johann Georg Bager, who for three consecutive years came down from Pennsylvania six times a year, administering the spiritual functions in preaching and sacraments, and enjoying from this not more than five pounds per year. This was next to nothing indeed, as a reward for the painstaking of a spiritual guide. The congregation, however, consisting only of eleven persons and the majority of them having no superfluous means, the good man was satisfied with it until the journey of over sixty miles became too arduous for him and he accepted another call.
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