life, while menaced by a savage foe, all to escape from British persecution, intolerance and bigotry. When settled in their new homes, in the Octorara Valley, a common im- pulse seized them, the desire to facili- tate the opportunities for the educa- tion of their children. It was here the British laws

pastorate of Mr. Rodgers proposals for union between the Mt. Joy members of Donegal and the New School congregation of Mt. Joy were made and mutually agreed to; where- upon the Mt. Joy members sold their interest in the Lutheran Church to that �congregation and appropriated the funds obtained to the

will best let Mr. Beck himself tell this part of the story. He says: "I was born at Graceham, Frederick county, Maryland, on the 16th of June, 1791, and in my sixth year moved with my parents to Lancaster county, Pa., into the neighborhood of Mount Joy, whence, after a lapse of two years, we repaired