Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-11
Lutheran Church Matters.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH
CoUNcIL-ADoPTIoN OF THE COMMON
sERvICE-NEW ORGAN--AUGUsTAM MIN
listers IN RICHMOND, sc.
The congregation of Christ church on
Sunday morning last elected the following
members of the Church Council-Messrs.
Henry B. Brown, q. G. Berry, F. W.
Hamer, and J. j. Prufer. These gentle
men with the following members who held
! over-Messrs. J. A. Wise, Charles Prufer,
M. P. Funkhouser. and Charles I. Ham
moDd. now compose the Church Council.
The congregation has ordered a new
organ. to cost 81 $50, from Prof. Otto OF
Baltimore, who rebuilt the organ at Tri-
nifty church. It will be done 10 time TO be
erected in the new church on Lewis street
when that is finished.
The work on the new church is progress
ing we'll. The building is rooted and
floored, and the pulpit is up. The spire,
which is now to be erected on the tower,
will be So feet high, making with the
tower height of 105 feet. The congrega-
ton expect to occupy the Sunday School
room of the building on the second Sab
bath in February.
THE COMMON SERVICE.
The congregation on Sunday morning
adopted the new service, called 1.-THE
Common Service" The adoption of this
service by the churches, will make the
service of the Lutheran church uniform
throughout this country and in unison
with that used in Europe.
The move which brought about the
general use of the Common Service
in the United States originated
with the Rev. DR.. John Bachman, the
grandfather of the late Rev. John Bach
man Haskell The English. speaking
Lutherans of this country are divided
into three general bodies-the General
Council, the General Synod, and the
United Synod-the last covering che terri
tory South. Each body used different
liturgy prepared by its own committee.
Ten years ago the United Synod proposed
to the other two to unite in the adoption
of Common Service. 1t was agreed to
Rev. DR.. E. T. Horn of Charleston, s. C.,
and Rev DR.. S. A. Repass, formerly of
Staunton. This Service is the outcome of
the united deliberations 1t is intended
to reproduce in English the consensus of
the pure Lutheran Liturgies of the 10Th
century and is therefore no new service,
such as the personal taste of those who
have prepared it would have selected and
arranged, but it is the old Lutheran Ser
vice used in the early history of the
Church.
AUGUSTA MINISTERS IN RICHMOND.
In Richmond. Sunday afternoon, the
quarterly meeting of the First English
and Trinity Lutheran Sunday sch ools was
held. The meeting was opened with pray
er by Rev. Geo. W. Shuey, formerly Of
Augusta). pastor of Trinity church. The
Richmond Times says:
"The reports of the secretary of the two
schools were made and accepted, and after
another hymn by the congregation, Rev.
MIR. Shuey was introduced and made some
remarks on his early experience in this
kind of work. He heartily synpathized
with those laboring in this part of the
vineyard especially those having charge
of the infant department. His experience
taught him that it was hard to get chill
dren interested. but that once gained, the
labor became pleasant.
1.-THE Rev. Christian Beard, of Augusta
county, one of the fathers of the Church
in Virginia. was the next speaker. He
emphasized, in rather humorous way,
the virtue of perseverance in presenting
the truth as held by Lutherans, and then
gravely urged the duty devolving upon
officers, teachers, and parents, of early
training children in the way they should
go, narratlng some striking examples that
came under his notice, of good accomplish
ed by those who early in life gave them
selves to Christ at the altar by public
profession