lament over Lancaster as over Jerusalem." Rev. J. C. Stoever continued as pastor of Trinity until 1738 and after that year continued to ride from his Sunnyside home to Lancaster until 1744 to give limited service to the congregation. Stoever's own records are evidence that dur- ing the years 1730 — 1738

. Ezra Reed as pastor. The congregation begun at that time is now known as Christ Lutheran Church and worships in an impressive edifice erected in 1895. The year 1867 signaled the 350th anniversary of the Protestant Reforma- tion. In Trinity Church the observance was marked by a special series of sermons

leading member of Trinity Lutheran Church as well as a physician. He died in 1780. On December 1, 1781, Charles Marshall of the Philadelphia drug firm in writing to his father at Lancaster said: "Please to inform Widow Kuhn that I have her things packed up for several days & I expected that Bousman would

in the growing town of Lancaster, where the Metho- dist Church was not then established. In fact, as will be evident, it was the last of the Protestant denominations with European back- grounds to have a congregation in Lancaster. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1789—I called on Mr. Hendel,5 a Dutch Presbyterian

Henry Muhlenberg. Therefore, when John arrived at the age of seven, he was sent to his father's pastor for catechetical instruction. This may have been Dr. Muhlenberg or it may have been the preacher of the Manheim Lutheran Congregation, as very likely the Seyberts had affilia- tions there. However, it

Moravian Church of Lancaster. He served as the first pastor of this congregation, and directed the building of their first church edifice on Orange Street in 1746. Rev. Nyberg's activities extended to the town of Lititz, where he first preached to Lutherans, Reformed, Mennonites and Moravians in the year

to Lancaster from the convention, a number of Lancastri- ans, Thaddeus Stevens not among them, stopped at Springfield and at St. Louis. The party consisted of General B. A. Shaeffer, General George M. Steinman, H. E. Leman, Colonel 0. J. Dickey, W. C. Evans, C. D. Mehaffey, J. W. Fisher, Dr. Rohrer