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This
is the History of the Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran church of Morris
Illinois from 1880 to present date.
This page is the menu to the
History for Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Morris, IL. The
history is not completed and will be added to as time permits.
Index button on left will take you to the
complete index of the history of the church.
History Overview will take you to a list
of the major events of the church from 1880 to present.
The buttons with the years will take you to
the pages covering that year or years as case may be. At the beginning of
each year page a smaller index is provided to cover just that year.
Understand,
all I can show about the churches are what I can see physically from
articles. As Rev. Abrahamson stated in his annual report to the Bethlehem
Lutheran Evangelical church of Morris in his annual report in 1940:
"these are only the outward manifestations of the life of the
congregation. The spiritual and eternal fruits can not be tabulated."
This
history has been obtained from church pamphlets of Bethlehem Evangelical
Lutheran church and Newspaper articles from the , Morris, ILL.
The
Newspaper articles will have the date of publications provided at the time
of use in this history.
The
information gathered from church publications will be marked with a
reference number to correspond to the appropriate publication
The
Church publications used are as follows:
(1)
The 50th Anniversary dated July 4-6, 1930
(2)
60th Anniversary, dated Sept 17-22, 1940
(3)
Church Dedication, dated Oct 29, 1952
(4)
75th Anniversary, dated Oct 19-23, 1955
(5)
100th Anniversary, dated July 5-6, 1980
I
want to thank the , Morris Daily Herald, Morris, Illinois for permission
to use the articles that appeared through out the many years.
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