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Shoffner History.
Lionville, Chester County, Pa., he removed to that field, and there prosecuted the work of his high calling for five and a half years. In December, 1876, he took charge of St. Paul?s Church, Berne, N. Y., where he remained for seven years, and then returned to Pennsylvania and became pastor of the Lutheran Church at Lewisburg. Here he remained only two years, when he accepted a call from C-i! '	'	i,	*	'	:	.	h
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