Excerpt from The Anniversary Booklet Celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary 1858-1958 of Bethphage Lutheran Church, Lincolnton, N. C: September 12, 1958 The first worship services were held under a brush arbor. These services often lasted from A. M. Until P. M. The seats under the arbor were made of hand hewn logs. The first Bethphage Church building was built in Lincoln County, N. C. In 1858 by Andy Hallman on land that had beengiven by Davy Shell. 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.