Evening star., 1898-11-14
DIR. DOMER's PAsTORATE.
Celebration of His Twenty-Fourth
AnniVersary With Preaenf Charue

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| Rev. DR.. Domer, pastor of st. Paul's Eng
lish Lutheran, Church of this city, passed
| his twenty-fourth anniversary yesterday
| and both the morning and evening services
| at the church were centered IN the ami
| versary event. The morning text was Acts
xX:lS. "Ye know from the first day that
| came into Asia after what manner / have
| been with you at all seasons" in the
| evening, Acts xx:22, And now behold,
| go bound in the Spirit unto Jerusalem, not
knowing the things that shall befau me
| there
In the morning The pastor gave the fol-
lowing statements, in connection with 9TH
er references to his pastoral work and eX-
| perlence in the city: He preached his first
| sermon November ), 1874, and never missed
| a service on account of illness during his
pastorate of twenty-four years. He has not
| missed communion season nor anniver-
| sary nor church festival since he came
/ TO st. Pauls.
OF the membership of the church when
he took charge, sixty have died in that
| period. Only about twenty of those who
We're then in the active relation with the
church remain in the present membership.
DR.. Domer has attended 10 funerals, 81
| of adult members of the congregation and
70 of children. The others were not mem
bers of his congregation. He performed
| the marriage ceremony for Asa couples,
baptized 424 children and received into
church fellowship 652 members. He has
been with his Bible class in the Sunday
school more than a thousand times
Outside of his regular ministrations in the
church he delivered addresses. at various
times, at Roanoke College, Va; Susque-
hanna University. Pennsylvania; Witten-
berg College, Ohio; Maryland College at
Lutherville, and Kee Mar College at Hag-
erstown. On visit to the west a few
years ago, he preached at Chicago, III.
Des Moines, Ia, and Salt Lake City, Utah.
He was called away to preach funeral dis
courses for former parishioners in Selins-
grove, Reading, Shamokin and at Curwens-
Vile, Pa. He preached sermons on the oc-
casions of the funerals of Rev. DR.. H. Bak-
er of Altoona, Pa; Rev. DIR. d. SCHNEIDER
OF Hanover, Pa, and Rev. Uriel Graves of
Baltimore, Nd He delivered memorial dis
courses in his own church in tribute to the
memory of DR.. G. Diehl. DR.. j. G. Morris.
both of Maryland, and DR.. r. w. Conrad
of Philadelphia.
DIR. Domer was chairman of the Maryland
synod's delegation to the general synod at
the convention at Altoona in 1881. In Oc-
tober of the same year he was elected
president of the synod of Maryland. In
the year 1888 he delivered a series of lee
tures numbering twelve or fourteen, on
Luther and the Reforma tion,' and held
that 81 eat anniversary in celebration of
the 4OOth anniversary Of Luther's birth,
when Pere Hyacinth of Paris was one of
the speakers.
He closed his anniversary discourses with
tender reference to the passing years and
the changes in church and Sunday school,
expressing the earnest hope and prayer
that heavenly benedctions may rest on
pastor and people during the year, now at
hand, which shall close the quarter of a
century of the present paStorate.