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 Image:Baptism.jpg|<center>Baptism 1943 — with George Howard Wright, Ceclia Wright, Bernice Yarmchuk, John Yarmchuk, Faye Yarmchuk Cornwall, Pastor Russell B Green Sr, Hubert H Miller, Frances Miller, Carolyn Miller Wright, Steve Komathy, Esther Komathy and Patrica Komathy Von Haugg at St Paul's Lutheran Church - Berne NY.</center>
 Image:green.jpg|<center>Group of young parisoners</center>
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+Image:bernelutheran 1.jpg|<center>Envelope from Berne Lutheran Church to Leeds, NY</center>
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 Image:inside 2.jpg|<center>Interior of church</center>
 Image:Baptism.jpg|<center>Baptism 1943 — with George Howard Wright, Ceclia Wright, Bernice Yarmchuk, John Yarmchuk, Faye Yarmchuk Cornwall, Pastor Russell B Green Sr, Hubert H Miller, Frances Miller, Carolyn Miller Wright, Steve Komathy, Esther Komathy and Patrica Komathy Von Haugg at St Paul's Lutheran Church - Berne NY.</center>
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 Image:inside 1.jpg|<center>Interior of church</center>
 Image:inside 2.jpg|<center>Interior of church</center>
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+Image:Baptism.jpg|<center>Baptism 1943 — with George Howard Wright, Ceclia Wright, Bernice Yarmchuk, John Yarmchuk, Faye Yarmchuk Cornwall, Pastor Russell B Green Sr, Hubert H Miller, Frances Miller, Carolyn Miller Wright, Steve Komathy, Esther Komathy and Patrica Komathy Von Haugg at St Paul's Lutheran Church - Berne NY.</center>
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 Image:BP006BerneChurchCOLOR.jpg|<center>Lutheran Church, Berne, NY - Courtesy Berne Historical Society</center>
 Image:inside 1.jpg|<center>Interior of church</center>
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 Image:St. Paul's Lutheran Church 1930's.jpg|<center>1930's</center>
 Image:St. Pauls Lutheran Church 1.jpg|<center>early 1940's; Parishioners leaving church</center>
-Image:Parsonage.jpg|<center>Old parsonage for torn down to construct the BKW High School</center>
+Image:Parsonage.jpg|<center>Old parsonage was torn down to construct the BKW High School</center>
 Image:Porch.jpg|<center>View from the porch of the old parsonage, showing the wagon shed next to the church. The Parsonage is long gone and this open area is now part of the BKW high school</center>
 Image:Sunday School.jpg|<center>Sunday School with Rev. Greene</center>

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 ::''February 1765. I preached for the first time in Johannes Zeh’s house and administered the Lord's Supper.''
 ::''April 1766. I administered the Lord’s Supper at Beaverdam.''
-*1790 - The church was incorporated as the "German Lutheran Congregation of Rensselaer Ville,"<ref>Before the Town of Berne was created in 1795, the area was called [[Beaver Dam]], or the Beaver Dam. In 1790 the area became the Town of [[r:Rensselaerville|Rensselaerville]], which encompassed all of the Hilltowns.</ref> and early services and records were in German. The first trustees were Christian Sand, Frederick Warner, and Christian Zeh, a son of Johannes, at whose house Dominie Sommer had administered Communion in 1765.
+*1790 - The church was incorporated as the "German Lutheran Congregation of Rensselaer Ville,"<ref>Before the Town of Berne was created in 1795, the area was called [[Beaver Dam|Beaverdam]], or the [[Beaver Dam]]. In 1790 the area became the Town of [[r:Rensselaerville|Rensselaerville]], which encompassed all of the Hilltowns.</ref> and early services and records were in German. The first trustees were Christian Sand, Frederick Warner, and Christian Zeh, a son of Johannes, at whose house Dominie Sommer had administered Communion in 1765.
 *ca. 1795 - since there was no hamlet in the area, the simple frame church was built near the Zeh and Warner homesteads, halfway between what are now the hamlets of Berne and East Berne, just east of the present-day Pine Park residential area (site of the [[Pine Grove Cemetery (Lutheran Church Cemetery)]]).
 *1835 - the present brick church was constructed just west of the new hamlet of Bern. According to ''[[Our Heritage]]'', in 1835 a search was made to find a source for making the bricks to build the Lutheran Church, and it was on the farm of Peter Bassler that a clay bed was found to provide the material for making the bricks. The bank of clay formed a part of west side of the knoll where the [[Beaverdam Cemetery]] is located. The bricks were made and burned on the site. They then were hauled by team and wagon to the church site, and it is reported that this task of hauling was accomplished in a day. The early church had box like pews with a door to each pew. (In 1959 92-year-old Stanton Dietz wrote a very good description of the early church in a letter sent to Reverent Russell B. Greene, Sr., the pastor of the church. A copy of this letter may be found in the Berne Historical Center.)

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 ::''April 1766. I administered the Lord’s Supper at Beaverdam.''
 *1790 - The church was incorporated as the "German Lutheran Congregation of Rensselaer Ville,"<ref>Before the Town of Berne was created in 1795, the area was called [[Beaverdam]], or the Beaver Dam. In 1790 the area became the Town of [[Rensselaerville]], which encompassed all of the Hilltowns.</ref> and early services and records were in German. The first trustees were Christian Sand, Frederick Warner, and Christian Zeh, a son of Johannes, at whose house Dominie Sommer had administered Communion in 1765.
-*ca. 1795 - since there was no hamlet in the area, the simple frame church was built near the Zeh and Warner homesteads, halfway between what are now the hamlets of Berne and East Berne, just east of the present-day Pine Park residential area (site of the [[Pine Grove Cemetery]]).
+*ca. 1795 - since there was no hamlet in the area, the simple frame church was built near the Zeh and Warner homesteads, halfway between what are now the hamlets of Berne and East Berne, just east of the present-day Pine Park residential area (site of the [[Pine Grove Cemetery (Lutheran Church Cemetery)]]).
 *1835 - the present brick church was constructed just west of the new hamlet of Bern. According to ''[[Our Heritage]]'', in 1835 a search was made to find a source for making the bricks to build the Lutheran Church, and it was on the farm of Peter Bassler that a clay bed was found to provide the material for making the bricks. The bank of clay formed a part of west side of the knoll where the [[Beaverdam Cemetery]] is located. The bricks were made and burned on the site. They then were hauled by team and wagon to the church site, and it is reported that this task of hauling was accomplished in a day. The early church had box like pews with a door to each pew. (In 1959 92-year-old Stanton Dietz wrote a very good description of the early church in a letter sent to Reverent Russell B. Greene, Sr., the pastor of the church. A copy of this letter may be found in the Berne Historical Center.)
 *1845 - This red brick church was the organizational site of the first New York [[h:Anti-rent Wars|Anti-rent War]] convention. As the anti-rent feelings rose to their highest pitch, the first Anti-Rent Convention in the State was held here on January 15 – 16, 1845. Tin Horns and Calico, written by Henry Christman, is a book telling of the anti-rent feelings and happenings. Approximately 150 delgates from 11 counties, representing tenants of New York's vast estates, met here to discuss their common grievances. The following year the state adopted laws that resolved much of the anti-rent issue. The major anti-rent topic was that the landowners of Berne and the surrounding towns did not want to pay rent to the Van Rensselaer family as had been the custom under the Patroon System when the land was first distributed. Their opposition led to sheriffs being sent out to collect the rent and direct conflict with the local landowners, but it also had political repercussions. Because of the farmers’ stand against rent, the State Constitution was changed, abolishing the Patroon System. It is suggested that anyone interested in the history of Berne read [[h:Tin Horns and Calico|Tin Horns and Calico]].