-Hamlin meeting at Columbia when George A. Coffey of Philadelphia gave the principal oration. He devoted much of his speech to recounting the history of the Constitution with especial reference to the question of slavery. He queried "Shall the virgin territories of the west become new Lancaster Counties

print through the years and will not be new to readers of church history �but we believe that this is the first time that an attempt has been made to correlate the work of Francis Asbury and Henry Boehm. In the preparation of this sketch we have extracted data from sev- eral books which tell us much

Henry William Stiegel, Man of Vision Festival of the Red Rose George L. Heiges Today I come before you as a member of that group of histori- ans generally labelled "local historians", fundamentally different from those men and women who have trained to be teachers and writers of history. Being a

the church within our borders. Indeed, too seldom have the heroes of the church been given their place in local history. And yet, from the days when white traders first came into these parts to barter with the Indians, other white men came as Christian missionaries to these same red men, and from

stated in the History of New Sweden, which Israel Acrelius wrote in 1758. He said, "The land on the west side of the river [Delaware] which the Swedes had purchased of the heathen, first in Minuit's 2 time and afterward under Governor Printz, or had acquired a right to under agreement, stretched from

published history of St. Paul's Reformed Church. "During the pastorate of Rev. John Conrad Bucher, sometime between 1775 and 1779, the church was used as 1 Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 23, p. 5, and vol. 51, p. 127. �Monument to the memory of One Hundred and Ten Soldiers of the

The Mount J oy Soldiers Orphan School By GEORGE L. HEIGES The story of the Mount Joy Soldier's Orphan School cannot be told with- out including a good bit of history which goes beyond the confines of Lan- caster County. All of it is Pennsylvania history, but includes great names of our own county