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

- fessor Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County His- torical Society. Following the invocation by the Rev. Robert S. Miller, pastor of the Unitarian Church of Our Father, Mayor James H. Ross introduced Mr. Garvin, the donor, who, in turn, presented Vernon K. Newswanger, of Lancaster and

Sunday-School Society of Saint James's Church, Lancaster / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): St. James Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.) Female Sunday-School Society of Saint James's Church (Lancaster, Pa.) Episcopal Church--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Women--Pennsylvania

THE PRESBYTERIAN SABBATH-SCHOOL SOCIETY By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N Vol. XXXIII, pp. 175-188, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster I County Historical Society, appears an article entitled "The Sun- day-School Society," which describes briefly the origin of the Sun- day-school movement in Lancaster

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

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

Thursday, March 19th, 1812, a concert of sacred music was held in the Upper Octorara Presbyterian church, under the direction of Mr. Nathaniel Coburn. An address, well adapted to the occasion, was delivered by the Rev. James Latta, imme- diately before the performance. The Lancaster Journal, of Saturday