The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-20

Needed BY the Y. NJ. c. A.--Brief
Notes of Church News =. Services
Tomorrow.
In view of the approaching East Ger
man Methodist Episcopal conference in
this city beginning next Wednesday
night at the First German Methodist
church, Adams avenue, corner of Vine
street the following review of German
Methodism in this city will be interest
ing:
In the spring of 1855 Rev. +. w.
| Flocken came to Scranton to begin
mission work among the German popu-
lation. He preached for the first time
in the frame church building owned by
the Methodist Episcopal church, on
June 8. The following fall the first
church organization was formed, con-
| sistng of sixteen members. OF these
! the following six are still living: Jacob
| Walter, Magdalene Lutz, Christine
| Bickel, Charlotte Ffaff, John LutZ and
! Frederic Bonn. The last named person
| has been a successful minister in the
| German work, now stationed at San
! Francisco, Cal. The services were al
Tentatively held at the frame church
and in private houses. until the Eng
| lish congregation, being ready to build
a more imposing structure, sold their
| frame church to them for 800. They
| removed it to the lot at the corner of
| Adams avenue and Vine street, which
wGs then bought for the sum of $3.50.
| This was the first church building for
! the German people in Scranton. In 1867
! the adjoining lot was purchased for
81 900, the church property had a front
| age of so feet
In 1872 the present church edifice was
built Rev. w. II. Kurth was then pas
tor. The cost of this building amounted
| to $4,000. Now the congregation had
| beautiful new church in the best loca-
ton, but not without the great burden
of a debt amounting to $4,000, and very
| few of the members We're well-to-do.
But by untiring efforts ON the part of
the minister, and heroic giving on the
| part of the membership this large debt
| was entirely wiped out within ten
years. Many English speaking Chris
tian friends showed themselves in those
struggling times to be friends indeed.
Through the efforts of Rev. F. w. Din
! ger So, 500 of the debt was paid off, and
Rev. G. Adele had the qualification to
pay off the last dollar of the remaining
$500.
In 1885 a chapel was erected on the hill
at the cost of $2,246, exclusive of two
| lots which We're procured by the La
| dies Aid society of that district for
| $450. In this chapel a prosperous Sum
| day school has been conducted, and
| preaching services and class meetings
| held ever since. In the same year two
| lots We're purchased for 5000 al the cor
| ner of Prospect avenue and Birch
| street. South Side, and another chapel
| built at the cost of $2,505. In this loca-
| ton a church organization was soon
| formed and 81 members and number
! of probationers joined by letter from
! the mother church. Here the work de-
veloped in a gratifying manner and
| there is now a membership of lO4 MEM
| bers, and a Sunday school of 15S Schol
ars at the South Side.
Last summer the trustees of the First
! church spent 81 500 for thorough reno
walton of the church property.
Since last conference the pastor raised
80 persons into full membership connec-
tion. There is in the church very ac-
tive Ladies' Aid society, who, besides
many deeds of charity to the poor and
| the sick, render Very efficient help to
the trustees of the church financially.
The following ministers have been
| stationed at the First church since its
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