Author: Jacob Fry

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781230425795

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...Church at Reading, of which he was for many years a member.'' The following gentlemen were appointed the committee: Messrs. Welsh, Magraw, Frazer, Dohnert and Espy, but, like many.other resolutions passed in conventions, it was never done. A monument, suitably inscribed, covers his grave in the Charles Evans Cemetery, he being the first of Trinity's pastors who died and was buried at Reading. CHAPTER XII. 1829-1841. 1Re. Jacob /nMller, 3D. 3D. When it became known, in 1828, that Dr. Muhlenberg had tendered his resignation as pastor of Trinity Church, many names were suggested for the place he so long occupied. Among these were some of the most prominent ministers of the Lutheran Church in this country, residing in New York and Maryland, as well as in Pennsylvania. But the man upon whom most eyes were fixed was Rev. Jacob Miller, pastor of the churches in and around Falkner Swamp, in Montgomery county, and president of the Ministerium. When the position was first offered to him, he declined it, preferring to remain in the field he had so long served, and which included the Goshenhoppen congregation, in which he had been reared. Extended correspondence between him and Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg followed, in which Reading was aided by Mr. Miller's wife, who was desirous he should move to Reading, and he finally consented to come, provided Dr. Muhlenberg would continue as pastor until the following May, as he was unwilling to make the change before that date. Dr. Muhlenberg consented to this, and a formal call was written, dated January 15,1829, and sent to him. As its language is almost identical with that given to Mr. Muhlenberg in 1803, we need not give it in full. It was a sign of the times that in neither 156 REV. JACOB MILLER. of these calls...