have passed on to Glory. We miss them for we have not forgotten their works. It is up to us to continue the work for our Lord Jesus. God has been good to us as individuals and as a church during these last 25 years. Life has gone on as it did in the other 25 year spans. I know we felt sad when loved

to Lancaster from the convention, a number of Lancastri- ans, Thaddeus Stevens not among them, stopped at Springfield and at St. Louis. The party consisted of General B. A. Shaeffer, General George M. Steinman, H. E. Leman, Colonel 0. J. Dickey, W. C. Evans, C. D. Mehaffey, J. W. Fisher, Dr. Rohrer

. Hollinger �buildings remained. Within recent years, sponsored by Wm. Randolph Hearst, New Salem has been restored. Many of the original buildings have been reconstructed and refurnished. A very large number of the furnishings, orig- inally owned and used by New Salem families during the years Lincoln lived

, sharing its toils and trials, and if we can only get these facts sufficiently before the people, depend on it there is some chance for you." "And now," Fell continued, "Mr. Lincoln, I come to the business part of our interview. My native State of Pennsylvania will have a large number of votes to cast for

lesser degree, in numerous communities throughout •the coun- try. The private family and day schools of the nineteenth century had one great feature in common, a feature which the large jointure school of today has all but pushed into oblivion. These private institutions were generally operated by a

poor, gave these exiles not only relief; but the con- solations which he as a minister of God could impart. According to Thompson �Westcott, more than half of these people died within a short time after their ar- rival in Philadelphia. In Lancaster County. In the early part of 1756 a number of these

street, near Front street, with Shawanese Indians as his neighbors. The rising tide of travel and traffic focussed toward Wright's Ferry. We can lend our imaginations to-day to these travel lines of man and beast. We can see herds of cattle wading and swimming after their lead-ox led from a canoe across

succeeding issue of the Lancaster Journal, dated Friday, March 1st, 1822, contained an announcement that a meeting of the society would be held on Wednesday, March 6th, at the house of Christian Smith. How long the society continued to exist and who were the officers and members of it is not now definitely

with the French Republic." Similar meetings were held elsewhere and popular indignation at the conduct of France was rapidly in- tensifying. Following the example of Philadelphia, "a large number of respectable inhabitants of the borough and county of Lancaster" met in the court house on Thursday

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A