soon, with mission-zeal, good Craig arrives,4 And holy prayer and praise once more arise. 'Twas then decreed (in Seventeen fifty-three) "Church of Saint James," the parish name shall be.(5) Through nigh a score of years (from Fifty-eight) The loy'list Barton fills the rectorate.(6) 2 The year is not

Epis- copal church, Lancaster, on Friday, March 27th, 1931. The tablet was erected by St. James's church school, with money obtained at Christmas, 1929, and represents the school's birthday gift to the King of kings. The tablet was designed by the James H. Matthews Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.; and the

generally known that Stephen Chambers, Esq., who helped to organize Lodge No. 43, and who served as its first Worshipful Master, lies buried in the graveyard adjoining St. James's Protestant Episcopal church, this city. Mr. Chambers was a prominent attorney in Lancaster, although only 36 years of age at the

. Yeates should reimburse the church collections from the balance of the bell fund in his possession. The records do not show that George Ross made any report of the funds he had collected. 2 The bell was paid for in two drafts ; the first dated April 10th, 1770, to Joseph Swift ; and the second on

its obscurity, and has given to us the only out- line, so far as known, of the original building of St. James's church. LETTERS OF JAMES BUCHANAN By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN 1908, the J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia and Lon- don, published, in twelve volumes, "The Works of James Buchanan

INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBSTONES IN THE GRAVEYARD ADJOINING ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, LANCASTER. * COPIED BY WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 1. In memory of / James Bolger. / A native of the County / Kilkenny, Ire- land. / Died July 24, 1860. / Aged 52 years. / Be ye also ready, for in such / an hour as ye think not

avoided. The Dispensary of St. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of

TABLET UNVEILED TO JAMES BUCHANAN By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER On Wednesday, February 7th, 1917, a bronze tablet—mounted on a piece of oak from an ancient tree that long had cast its generous shade over the spacious lawn of Wheatland,—was unveiled in the main assembly room of Masonic Hall, 13 West