grave her engagement ring and a rough draft of the hymn he had just wrrtten, "I would not live alway." This romance was no doubt one reason for his leaving Lancaster, which, he sard, was a sad place for him to visit. When he did return, the first and last place to which he turned his steps was to a

. James's Church in ye Borough of Lancaster." So far as known, this is the first use of the name. The minute book contains many examples of this form of the word. Whenever the vestry held a meeting, a record was made in the book, and although the phraseology of the sentences varied slightly, the name was

INSCRIPTION ON STEPHEN CHAMBERS'S TOMESTONE IN ST. JAMES'S CHURCHYARD By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In Vol. 34, p. 104, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, is a biographical sketch of Stephen Chambers, who in his day was a leading member of the Lancaster bar and an

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

foreign power or resort to arms for the defense of all that can be held dear to freemen, the officers of the militia of Lancaster county, —feeling themselves happy under the influence of a government of their own choice, mild and equal in its operation, and perfectly satisfied that it has been, and

Allegheny ceme- tery. Mr. Danner was survived by his widow, one daughter, and three sons. Mr. Danner was born in Lancaster county, Pa., and when quite a young man enlisted in the First Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps. Shortly after the close of the Civil War, he entered the Theological Seminary at

hope of heaven! Among the sweet sounds from church spires of Lancaster that each recurring Sunday fill the air with calls to worship, none, per- haps, possesses the distinctively musical quality to a greater degree than those which fall from the ancient bell in the tower of old Saint James. Its softly

ORIG- INAL BUILDING OF ST. JAMES'S CHURCH By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Rev. Richard Locke, a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, with headquar- ters in London, England, came to Lancaster early in October, 1744. Episcopalians living in this vicinity, held a