The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church by Hiram G. Troop, Sr. Mr. Madison E. McElwain's Faith and Works at Middle Octorara Since 1727 was published in 1956, and there is a copy in the LCHS col- lection. "The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyter- ian

hospitality and response to my teaching were in the good old tradition. After the welcome meeting, banquet and services of Saturday and Sunday they urged me to extend my visit, so I stayed a full week, holding classes for four daysl The children came after school, and I gave them studies in the life of St

work in small castings. In the spring of 1931 Mr. Andes died in an accident. William D. Andes, the writer, be- came liquidating officer in the wake of the corporation's board of directors' decision to close down the business. The economy was depressed, and the writer, then 25 years old, was deemed too

charged with what he got and credited with his receipts. Bro. Eberhart was to see that Dr. Otto was provided with an assistant in the garden and in compounding drugs, "so that this faithful old servant of the Church may not again have things too hard for him. In Bethlehem he has passed through many

images "as through a glass darkly," by the medium of skillfully painted portraits by the old masters, by reflections in mirrors, placid streams or highly polished surfaces. Years before 1839, artists and chemists had been experiment- ing with methods to retain a permanent image or reflection of an object

documented details, finally laid to rest the Germanic superiority prejudice and established that Southeastern Pennsylvania's agriculture and farmsteads were a product of the area and a result of the contributions of many nationalities.11 Joseph W. Glass (1971) wrote on the characteristics of the Pennsyl

Biography Paul Zantzinger By M. LUTHER HEISEY There came to the shores of America, on the ship Adventurer, Septem- ber 23, 1732,1 one Paul Songsinger (Hans Paulus Zantzinger), aged twenty years, whose family in years following became prominent in the affairs of Lancaster Borough; in fact, one son

congregations." During Faber's pastorate the present building was erected, in 1813. It has galleries on three sides; and had a wine-glass pulpit, with a sounding board. The foundation of the red brick building contains dressed sandstones, some from six to eight feet long. The material of the old log building

the stage as a mail carrier. And now, in the lifetime of the writer, and with what seems like a touch of irony, the familiar blue and white buses — modern- ized and motorized — replace the trolleys as carriers of passengers and mail, covering much of the ground over which the old stages traveled

Oak Hill. STIEGEL'S GLASS HOUSE Stiegel's first glass house (works), which was erected about 1763, was at Elizabeth Furnace, at the base of Cannon Hill. Hunter, in 1913, found bottle and window glass in an old slag pile several hundred yards southeast of the mansion and east of Furnace Run; and also