the credit of actually establishing Pennsylvania Hospital, although the idea of the hospi- tal was one of the brain children of Benjamin Franklin. Dr. Bond gave the first course of clinical lectures in the United States, and at the age of sixty-four, volunteered his services to Continental Congress. A

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

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

continuous service, this is the oldest drug store in the United States. This same Dr. Otto of Bethlehem was also the first apothecary in Lan- caster County. On October 16, 1760, he arrived at the Moravian Community of Lititz to take up his duties as physician and apothecary. He brought with him a long letter

only one camp meeting in Lancaster County, but one which, it seems to us, must have been the most outstanding of such meetings in this region. It was the National Methodist Camp Meeting held at Manheim in 1868. Religious camp meetings in the United States had their beginning in Kentucky where the first