was born nine years before the Methodist Church was organized and have known all its bishops, from Thomas Coke the first to Calvin Kingsley, the last elected. I had a common school education. The old schoolhouse and my schoolmaster Henry Rosman, I well remember. He went from house to house, and it was

that had pealed out its mes- sage from the steeple of the Tinicum Island church since 1646. Old Gloria Dei is still standing, and is in an excellent state of preservation—the oldest church building in Pennsylvania and still regularly used Sunday after Sunday. With the coming of the Germans to

, in the building of the old Strasburg Academy. The school was closed in the summer of 1865 because of inadequate accommo- dations, and the children were transferred to Mount Joy. The building in Mount Joy to which the orphan children were taken was the building of the Mount Joy Academy, begun in 1850