Excerpt from History of Old Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church: In Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; Near Harrold's This old register had been carelessly handled for many years and was thought by many to have been lost or destroyed. But it found friends that knew its value and preserved 'it. The volume came into our hands some years ago and we at once set about to translate its contents. 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.