Excerpt from Minutes of the First Convention of the United Lutheran Church in America: New York City, November 14-18, 1918 The Church of the Holy Trinity, New York City, was organized January 27th, 1868. The Rev. G. F. Krotel, D.D., was called as its first pastor. The place of worship was purchased from a Dutch Reformed congregation on 215t Street, near Fifth Avenue. The congregation, under the leadership of Dr. Krotel. Gathered to itself Lutherans of influence, and quickly attained a position of prominence in general religious work. Dr. Krotel's pastorate continued until 1895, when he resigned and was succeeded in 1896 by Rev. C. Armand Miller, D.D. Dr. Miller's pastorate developed a spirit of loyalty and activity among the young people of the Church and culminated in building the present beautiful church edifice, which was consecrated in 1904. With Dr. Miller's resig nation in 1908, Rev. Charles J. Smith, became pastor. The congregation again found itself m a downtown district of the great metropolis striving to make its ministry permanent in the commun ity where it is now located and where it feels that it occupies a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.