Department to the sick and wounded under their care is a proof not only of their humanity but of their zeal for the service of the United States." In 1777, Dr. Potts was appointed Deputy Director General of the Hospitals of the Northern Department, and then transferred to the Middle Department as a Director

recommended to the people of these United States "that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to God for singular deliverance and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners

. James Russell Lowell, then United States Minister to Great Britain, presided at the meeting. When Bishop Simpson preached at Manheim, he was fifty-seven years of age, and at the height of his power as an orator and preacher. The Manheim �Sentinel editor wrote of his effort: "He discussed his

- portant in the history of pharmacy in the United States, for it has to do with our first pharmacopoeia. The early apothecaries of American naturally had only pharmacopoeias of the European countries to rely upon for formulae, and some apothecaries, spurning even these, used their own, so that there was no

the church within our borders. Indeed, too seldom have the heroes of the church been given their place in local history. And yet, from the days when white traders first came into these parts to barter with the Indians, other white men came as Christian missionaries to these same red men, and from