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Christ Lutheran Church, Highland, WI
303 Main St.; Highland, WI 53543 --- Pastor: Rev. Dana M. Wilkie
The Altar and Altar Painting
In 1937, when the current church was purchased, it didn't have an altar. Only a pulpit stood up front. Some time later a Lutheran congregation in Clinton, WI, was building a new church so they had a pulpit and altar to give to a church that needed one. Church members hired a truck to pick up the altar and pulpit in Clinton.

The altar from Clinton orginally did not have an oil painting. Instead, a Bible verse had been printed in large German script on the front. Church members Cora Kopps and Mae Wedlake were aquainted with a German family of one brother and three sisters. They were farmers as most everyone else was at that time. Emma Scherer (1889-1985), one of the sisters, was a painter so Cora and Mae asked her to paint a large picture of Christ in Gethsemane to cover the front of the altar. She agreed and painted the beautiful picture that we now have had on our altar for so many years. Emma painted it for the small price of $15, mostly as a favor to friends.

The painting is likely an interpretation of German painter Heinrich Hoffman's painting "Christ in Gethsemane", which Hoffman created in 1890. Hoffman's original is in the Riverside Church in New York City.

- Altar write up adapted from article written by Leland Kopps.


Christ in Gethsemane
-painted by Emma Scherer
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