Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-03
SERVICE In ENGLISH.
Split In a Lutheran Church Because There
Was Only German PreachinE-New Edl.
Zee Soon TO be Erected.

1 Split In Lutheran Church Because There
Was Only German Preaching-New Edl.
hce Soon to be Erected.
A report is current on the Southside to
the effect that there is soon to be division
in the South Eighteenth Street German
Evangelical Lutheran congregation. A diff
iculty seems to have been brewing for some
time over an unsuccessful effort on the part
of few members of the congregation to in
duce the pastor, Rev. p. Brandt to hold one
English service on Sundays for the benefit
of the younger portion Of the congregation.
A number of the members have agreed to
leave the church and, with several others
who are not members anywhere, to organize
a new congregation, to be under the iuris-
diction OF the Ohio Synod. The Eighteenth
street congregation is under the Missouri
Synod, an opposing faction of the church to
the Ohio Synod. While permanent organ
ization has not as yet been effected, the site
for church building has been purchased
and plans are being prepared for the struc-
ture. The site selected is the lot at the cor
ner of South TWentv-second and Sarah
streets, on which the old short line stables
now stand. The lot is 30x120 feet in dimen-
sions. and the price paid is said to be
$11, 900.
Some time ago q mission Sunday school
was organized under the superintendence Of
Charles Eisenbaeh, of Allegheny. The
school meets every Sunday in Weber's Hall,
corner of South Twenty-seventh and Car
son streets. The attendance averages from
100 to 125 pupils, and the workers in the
school are mostly members of the Eigh-
teenth street church, who express their
intention to withdraw as soon as the new
congregation has been organized.
M. Simon, the shoe dealer, and II. Ahlers,
tailor, of Allegheny, are interested in the
new congregation, and are lending their in
fnence to have it organized. They we're in
strumental in having the English congrege-
tion in Allegheny established. A member
of the congregation said last night: ST look
for split in our congregation. Our pastor
was asked some time ago to hold English
services and he refused to DO so. When he
learned that the new congregation was being
organized he commenced to hold English
services on Sunday evenings. 1t will be
very hard for some of US to leave, as we
think we'll of Mr.. Brandt, but we feel that
an English congregation is necessary on the
Southside."
A call was made at the residence of Mr..
Brandt last night, but he had retired.
Through member of the family, however,
who made known to him the reporters mis-
sion, he said he would not talk about the
matter further than to deny that there are
auy dissensions in his congregation, and to
say that the English services are now being
held because the congregation demands
them. An English missionary named
Spanneth will begin with this evening to
hold series of English services.
The enewtcongregation will be known as
SITS. John and Paurs Church. A meeting
for the purpose of permanently organizing
will be held in few days, and it is ex-
pected to have q chapel built, ready for
occupancy, by the first of the new year.
Arrangements will then be made for the
erection of handsome church building.