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

of Dayton, Ohio. A native of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, he had already served parishes in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio, had been an instruc- tor in Wittenberg College and was an associate editor of The Lutheran Observer His work in Lancaster began in March 1862, and immediately his preaching and