Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . res north of Sweet Home, it yetis a relic that is quite attractive to the student of his- THE HEBRON MORAVIAN CHURCH. ^97 tory, in view of the knowledge of its once renownedowner, and the hospitable entertainment it fnrnishedpastors and bishops and others. When it had life andsonl this now hollow and ghost-harboring bnildingninst have been a home as fine as Mt. Vernons man-sion. What a luibbnb there mnst have been in it,when the illustrious owner of that Southern mansion, asthe General-in-chief of the Colonial army in revolt, senta quota o
Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . res north of Sweet Home, it yetis a relic that is quite attractive to the student of his- THE HEBRON MORAVIAN CHURCH. ^97 tory, in view of the knowledge of its once renownedowner, and the hospitable entertainment it fnrnishedpastors and bishops and others. When it had life andsonl this now hollow and ghost-harboring bnildingninst have been a home as fine as Mt. Vernons man-sion. What a luibbnb there mnst have been in it,when the illustrious owner of that Southern mansion, asthe General-in-chief of the Colonial army in revolt, senta quota of 270 Hessian prisoners from Princeton andTrenton to the sacred house of prayer, where the occu-pants of this house statedly worshipped! The writerhas recently visited this old relic when he accidentallydiscovered that it was the Kucher house. Seeing thesandstones in the second story front, the inscriptionupon which was illegible from a position on theground, he clambered up an old rickety portico, fromthe roof of which he clearlv read the followine:. niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir 198 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. IT \ / 61
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