Commemorates fifty years of Redemptorist activities in Ephrata, Pa. including the churches of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church, Ephrata, Pa., St. James Church, Lititz, Pa., and Our Lady of Lourdes Church, New Holland, Pa.
Appendix includes Baptisms and marriages (1914-1964); Present Parish statistics (January 1, 1964); List of rectors and pastors (1914-1964); and advertisements.
Souvenir program of the one hundredth anniversary of the First M. E. Church, Lancaster, Pa.: and a condensed history of the church from the organization of the first class in 1897, to the present date, Oct 13, 1907
v. 1. 1708-1742 -- I. Ephrata of the present day -- II. Beyond the Cocalico -- III. Advent of the Palatines -- IV. German pilgrims -- V. The Weaver's apprentice -- VI. The Labadists on the Bohemia Manor -- VII. The hut in the forest -- VIII. The German Baptist Brethren -- IX. The New Dunkers on the Conestoga -- X. The Cradle of German literature -- XI. Alexander Mack -- XII. Koch-Halekung, the serpent's den -- XIII. A retrospect -- XIV. A eventful year -- XV. The awakening of the Tulpehoken -- XVI. Kedar -- XVII. Jacob's Kampff und Ritter-platz -- XVIII. The monastery on the Wissahickon -- XIX. Unitas Fratrum -- XX. The habits of the orders -- XXI. Roster of the celibates -- XXII. The Weyrauchs Hugel -- XXIII. The Zionitic Brotherhood -- XXIV. The Amwell Dunkers -- XXV. The house of prayer -- XXVI. Peniel -- XXVII. A celestial visit -- XXVIII. The Skippack Brethren -- XXIX. The Pennsylvania Synods -- XXX. The order of the mustard seed -- XXXI. Hebron -- XXXII. Saron -- XXXIII. Bethania.
v.2. 1742-1800 -- I. Christopher Sauer and his German Bible -- II. Magister Johannes Hildebrand -- III. The great comet of 1743 -- IV. The pilgrimage to New England -- V. Industrial feature of the community -- VI. The music of the Cloister -- VII. The mystic of the Cocalico -- VIII. The rule of the Sisterhood -- IX. The Eckerlins -- X. The Ephrata Press -- XI. The Nantmel revival -- XII. The Gimsheim revival -- XIII. Conrad Weiser -- XIV. Educational departments -- XV. The visit of Israel Acrelius -- XVI. The Valleys of Virginia -- XVII. Snow Hill -- XVIII. Exoricism of fire -- XIX. Friedsam Gottrecht -- XX. Prior Jaebez -- XXI. Issues of the Kloster Press -- The Ephrata register (burial record)
Volume 1: Blaser's Reformed Church (Elizabethtown, Pa.)--Cocalico Reformed Church (East Cocalico Twp., Pa.--Manheim Lutheran Church (Manheim, Pa.)--Manheim Reformed Church (Manheim, Pa)--Maytown Lutheran Church (Maytown, Pa.)--Maytown Reformed Church (East Donegal Twp., Pa.)--Muddy Creek Evangelical Church (East Cocalico Twp., Pa.)--Muddy Creek Reformed Church (East Cocalico Twp., Pa.)--Pequea Reformed (Strasburg Twp., Pa.)--Reiher's Reformed (Elizabeth Twp., Pa.)--Seltenreich Reformed (Earl Twp., Pa.)--Little Cocalico (Swamp) Reformed (West Cocalico Twp., Pa.)--White Oaks Congregation (Penn Twp., Pa.)--Elizabethtown Lutheran (Elizabethtown, Pa.)--Bergstrasse Lutheran Church (Ephrata Twp., Pa.).
Volume 2: First Reformed Church (Lancaster, Pa.)
Volume 3: Sadsbury Monthly Meeting (Sadsbury Twp., Pa.)--St. James Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.)--St. Mary's Church (Lancaster, Pa.)--Register of Marriages and Baptisms Performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson--Baptisms and Marriages Performed by Casper Stoever--Donegal Presbyterian Church (East Donegal Twp., Pa.)
Volume 4: Warwick Moravian (Lititz, Pa.)--Lititz Moravian (Lititz, Pa.)--Donegal/Mount Joy Moravian (Mount Joy Twsp., Pa.)
Volume 5: Lancaster Moravian Church (Lancaster, Pa.)--St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Strasburg, Pa.)--St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Penryn (Pa.)--Cocalico/Conestoga German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation--White Oak German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation (Warwick Twp., Pa.)--East Conewago German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation (Warwick Twp., Pa.)--East Conewago German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation (Mountjoy Township, Pa.)--Ephrata Seventh-Day German Baptist Church (Ephrata, Pa.)--Register of Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing Middletown Lutheran & vicinity--Allegheny Lutheran Churches (Berks County)--Lancaster County Entries in Rev. John Waldschmidt's Register (Reformed)--Muddy Creek Moravian.
Volume 6: New Holland Lutheran Church [New Holland, Pa.}--Holy Trinity Lutheran Church [Lancaster, Pa.]
The music of the Ephrata cloister; also Conrad Beissel's treatise on music as set forth in a preface to the "Turtel taube" of 1747, amplified with fac-simile reproductions of parts of the text and some original Ephrata music of the Weyrauchs hügel, 1739; Rosen und lilien, 1745; Turtel taube, 1747; Choral buch, 1754, etc
108 p. front., illus. (incl. music) plates, port., facsim. 26 cm.
Notes
Initials; head and tail pieces.
"Reprinted from volume XII, Proceedings of the Pennsylvania-German society."
"Beissel's Dissertation on harmony. Translation by the Rev. J. F. Ohl": p. [70]-79.
"Appendix: A page of Ephrata theosophy. Read at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania German society, Ephrata, Penna., October 20, 1899 ... Lancaster, Pa., 1903": p. [93]-106.
Historical sketch of Zion's Reformed church and also historical items of general interest of Millersville and its environs. Prepared by request of the executive committee of Zion's Reformed anniversary
Exercises in commemoration of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania ; Thursday, August 1909, 2.00 P.M
Bound with : Old stone meeting-house 1757-1832 [First Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pa.] a historical sketch by John B. Landis ;; Old roads of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania by J. D. Hemminger; The life and times of Seantor James Ross / by James I. Brownson; History of the public schools of Carlisle : read before the Hamilton Library Historical Association, February 19, 1909 / by Annie B. Hantch; Annual report of the president of the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pa. ; Courts and bar of Cumberland County in the eighteenth century : historical address / by Edward W.Biddle ; Local history : old roads of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by J. D. Hemminger ; Washingtonburg / by Christian P. Humrich ; Birth and part history of the American flag / by Irwin Mahon ; John Brown's raid / by W. J. Shearer ; Catalogue and circular of White Hall Academy for 1852-53.
With addresses by E. Rankin Huston, J. Zemer, and others.