Ernest T. Kretschmann Old Trappe Church

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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..