St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-02
A GROWTH or TEN YEARS.
Rev HAUPT MIKES A SHOWING OF
THE CHURCHES.
TENTH ANNIVERSARY SERMON:

The Catholic Churches Number
&c. Baptized Members
Protestants Number 2S,063
ICommunicanfs-Th Catholics
Have FL Churches. Lutherans
and liethodists Each Have "a.
ar
Rev. A. j. d. Haupt, of the English
Memorial Lutheran church, on West
Sixth street. near Seventh. yesterday
forenoon preached the tenth anniver-
Sary sermon. In addition to showing
the growth OF the church, lie has been
pastor of it since it was organized in
1883. lie gave tabulated statement of
the number of churches and member
ship of all the denominations in the city
in 1884 and in 1894, showing the ten
years growth. Mr.. Haupt's text was
Isaiah XII, %. Following are extracts
from the sermon, including the table:
"On the first Sunday Of July, 1884,
which was the sixth day of the month,
the members and quite number of
friends Of Memorial congregation gath
cred in the little frame chapel, stlll
standing on the rear of our lot, to wit
ness the solemn installation services of
the young man who had been called to
be their pastor. Missionary Trabert, of
Minneapolis. delivered the charge to
the pastor and congregation, taking as
his text the words of Paul to Timothy.
I'd Epistle w., l-5. When your pastor
was Installed ten years ago this congre-
CATION numbered Just sixteen. Eight
afterwards withdrew and formed the
Trinity congregation on the West side,
TWO removed from the city aud one
died. Two of the original members
nave gone to their rest. Mrs. Deborah
Garlough. after she became member
OF Trinity, and the wife of DR.. G. II.
Haupt, whilst still member of Memo
rial"
The speaker gave financial state
ment showing how the church had been
embarrassed at the outset and finally
raised sufficient money TO avoid mort
gage foreclosure and pay various heavy
and expensive property and only 81, 900
yet to pay.
in ten years the congregation has
grown from 16 to 235 communicates;
and that, too. Notwithstanding two
other congregations have been formed
and sustained. Three hundred and
eight members have been added, and
our losses have been 50, leaving net
gain Ill the ten years of PIG. One hum
dred and thirty-four children have been
baptized in Memorial, and number
more in both Trinity and st. Marks.
Eight adults have also been received by
baptism and 1913 by confirmation. Sixty
four marriages have been SolemniZed,
aud 4S souls laid to rest. There have
also been number of combinations,
h2nt1SmG in
Trinity and st. Marks whilst under the
care of your pastor. 3
1.-The formation of the synod of the
Northwest, in 1891, consumed its share
of time, Memorial being the oldest,
strongest and only Seif-supporting con-.
gregation in the synod, and we may yet
live to see the day when we will be
proud to think that Memorial church,
was the birthplace of the synod of the
Northwest. and also when the synod of
the Northwest will not be ashamed 10,
point to the Memorial church as Its
birthplace. IL
Ten years ago Drs. Breed, DANA
Thomas and Marshall and Revs. Gil-f
bert and Maclaren were occupying the
leading pulpits in the city. Out of the
fifty-fOur Protestant ministers laboringe
i'll the city then, but seven are still at
their posts. Rev. NJ. ID. Edwards is, [
believe, the longest in the field, as pas
tor of the Dayton Avenue Presbyterian
church. Rev. NJ. n. Gilbert, then rector,
of Christ church. Episcopal. still re-'
mains in the city, but has been raised
to the dignity of a bishop. Pastor Pc
terson, of the Norwegian Lutheran
church; Rector Pope, of the Church of
the Good Shepherd, Episcopal: Rev. E.
c. Mitchell, of the Swedenborgian. and
Dr.. S. G. Smith, of the Peoples church.
complete the list. your pastor included.
The following statistical table, COM
piled from the most reliable sources at
hand, and which is certainly approxi-
mateIy correct, deserves most careful
study and comparisons: