be one of turmoil. As the campaign drew toward its close, the number of political meet- ings in city and county increased. Just how intense and widespread was the interest will be seen from the list of such gatherings held in Lancaster County in 1860, which we have appended to this paper. Reading the

contained a preface, also in Latin, which reads "With an asterisk are denoted such prescriptions as are to be prepared and compounded in the general laboratory, the others are to be mixed for the occasion at the office of the hospital. There are very many prescriptions 2 Papers Lancaster County Historical

for so long put up at miserable taverns and been among strangers and through such perils to meet so many familiar and kind friends. In the afternoon we journeyed on to my father's. My aged par- ents embraced me with joy, while I felt there is no place like home. Bishop Asbury and my father gave to

in the same general area of the city of Lancaster where those early Lutherans met, their descendents and successors faithfully assemble Sun- day after Sunday. In 1729 the County of Lancaster was erected and in the following year the Borough of Lancaster had its beginning, and in that same year a

Lutheran Church in America. Trinity congregation automatically became a mem- ber of the new body by reason of its membership in the Ministerium. For the next seventy five years there were congregations of both the General Synod and the General Council in Lancaster County; and fraternal relations in those