Long who preached the sermon at Seybert's funeral, and it must have been largely from him that Bishop Spreng gained the information concerning Seybert which he incor- porated in his biography of the man. It seems that Bishop Seybert was not a man of prepossessing appearance, but it was his affability

Henry Harbaugh in Lancaster By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER In October, 1851, when Henry Harbaugh, who had been pastor of First Reformed Church for a little over a year, preached a series of "Centenary Sermons"1 in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the stone building in which the

unstinted helpfulness of the librarian, Major W. P. Zantzinger, who is a great-great-grandson of Paul Zantzinger, of local Revolutionary fame. Note. The plate on the opposite page shows postmarks of Chickies post office, now discontinued; Hempfield, now known as Rohrerstown; Cordelia (Ironville), disc

History of St. John's (Center) Reformed Church, &tot Ear/ Township, Lancaster County By GLENN WEAVER Introduction About mid-way between the small towns of Terre Hill and Bowmansville, Pennsylvania, on a small hill overlooking the lovely valley of the Black Creek, stands a small country church—rich

application to the quar- terly meeting to build a meeting house. The application was granted and the meeting house Was built in 1725. When Sadsbury Monthly Meeting was set up in 1737, the Sadsbury meeting was transferred to the newly established monthly meeting. About 1744, fifty-six acres of land, one mile

Martin Meylin A Progenitor of the Pennsylvania Rifle By HERBERT H. BECK The Pennsylvania Rifle IN THE first half of the eighteenth century there was developed 1 in southeastern Pennsylvania a type of firearm that was new to the world. It revolutionized gunmaking. This firearm soon became known as

• �Cotnpreh en sive Municip a l Plan CITY OF LANCASTER PENNSYLVANIA Prepared by MICHAEL BAKER, JR. THE BAKER ENGINEERS Consulting Engineers, Planners, and Surveyors ROCHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA 1 9 4 5 �D. E. M.D., Mayor J. R. Seitz Secretary H. J. TAYLOR, CITY OF LANCASTER, PA. A cting City Clerk

Mrs. Albert M. Herr Mrs. D. E. Cary Mrs. S. G. Pontius Mrs. Paul C. Dellinger Mrs. Paul B. Eshleman �PROGRAM H. W. PRENTIS, JR., presiding et% SEATING OF DELEGATES "BLESSED IS THE PEOPLE" by Harry A. Sykes CIVIC CHORUS conducted by Harold Shaar MEN OF LANCASTER INVOCATION THE REV. WILLIAM H. BOLLMAN

A Story of the Amishmen By HAL BORLAND By permission of the Author and the New York Times Magazine. Down here in Pennsylvania's Amish country almost every one is think- ing about the Amish migration to Maryland. It isn't really a migration— only a few families are moving— but Lancaster Countians

The Army Heart A War Incident tin Lancaster County By H. M. J. KLEIN I HAVE lying on the desk before me all available documents relating to a very interesting and important series of events which occurred in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shortly after the United States entered the Second World