. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . apidated, and the membership having nearly died out,the place was abandoned. With the introduction of the 288 THE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN. public school system, the place was handed over to theschool directors, with the provision that the meeting housebenches should be stored in the loft of the new school house,and on funeral occasions, the school desks should be re-moved and the benches brought down for the seating ofthe funeral assembly. Rev. Rothrock informs me,
. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . apidated, and the membership having nearly died out,the place was abandoned. With the introduction of the 288 THE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN. public school system, the place was handed over to theschool directors, with the provision that the meeting housebenches should be stored in the loft of the new school house,and on funeral occasions, the school desks should be re-moved and the benches brought down for the seating ofthe funeral assembly. Rev. Rothrock informs me, that asa boy, he assisted twice in making this preparation forfunerals. No funeral probably was held here for manyyears. After the building of churches, funeral serviceswere held elsewhere, and other graveyards located, and theplace is little used now. It is a long chapter that extendsbackward into the forgotten past. The history of thesegenerations is finished, and for the most part it is a sealedvolume. A brick school house still stands on this historicspot, a living monument that reflects the light that shines outof CHAPTER CREEK CHURCH. Geographically, the early Indian Creek field was of vastextent, without boundaries of any kind, or congregationallines. The Brethren have lived and labored here for one hun-dred and ninety-four years, and the field was once exceed-ingly rich in religious and family history, but much of ithas passed into oblivion many years ago. While the Great-swamp Brethren Church was the first organized congrega-tion, the first preaching services by the Brethren were heldin the present bounds of the Indian Creek, and when theGreatswamp ceased to exist as an organization, the entireregion became Indian Creek territory, and the Indian Creekministers supplied the preaching that revived the work,which later became the Springfield congregation. It isimpossible to say now when the first regular preachingservices were held in Indian Creek, or, i
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