professional interest to this particular party was the old Lutheran church edifice, for the control of which property the long legal con- test was waged so bitterly in our local Courts, terminating in the triumph of the party of the Ministerium and the occupancy of the next hill-top with a new church by the

citizens of the town. This included the pastors of the (First) Reformed and (Trinity) Lutheran churches, and from them a joint answer was received. The origi- nal manuscript is in possession of D. McN. Stauffer, C. E., B. S., of New York, and by him we are permitted to publish this copy of it, which has

township ( £200). 1799. Moravian Church, Lancaster (£260). 1801. New Holland, Pa,, Reformed ( £200); used ever since, and of its size as good as the best, Madison, Va. 1804. York, Pa., Christ Lutheran (£355). Tannenberg's successor, John Philip Bachman, also built an organ for Hanover, Pa, (German Reformed

what had been done there. This linking of event with locality is one of the fine traits of human thought. Nothing has con- tributed more to history in its best and broadest significance than the reverent tendency to associate the thing done with the place where it happened. Hawthorne somewhere points