Lightning Strikes Spire of Trinity Lutheran Church By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0 N Tuesday, May 13th, 1823, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the beautiful spire of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, pride of Lancaster, and an ancient land-mark, was struck by lightning

Elicott, William Reichenbach, George Musser, William Jenkins, Samuel Humes and William Kirkpatrick. The list was published in the Lancaster Journal, of Friday, June 25th, 1813, by order of the board of trustees, of which John Hubley was president. Music in a Rural Church By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N

least as late as 1816 the First 1 Presbyterian church of Lancaster, Pa., employed a clerk. The special duties of this official are not now known. In all probabil- ity, they corresponded to those of the parish clerk in the Church of England in America, which, after the Revolutionary War, be- came the

born in Philadelphia, September 16th, 1796. He belonged to the famous Muhlenberg family, prominent members of the Lutheran Church in America, and was ba p -tizedbytheRev.JustHenryChristianHelmuth.Dr.Helmuthwaspastorof Trinity Lutheran church, Lancaster, from 1769 to 1779. Upon resigning the charge in

His Church, and in assisting struggling humanity rather than wasting their activities by engaging in theological disputations of little consequence. Harmony and brotherly love, however, were not always main- tained among the religious sects in old Lancaster. Less than one hundred years ago a

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

Author: Worner, William Frederic. Title: Old St. John's church yard, Pequea / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): St. John's Church (Pequea, Pa : Township)--History. Episcopal Church--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Church buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher

avoided. The Dispensary of St. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of