Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . t in arrangement. With a basement forSunday-school purposes, and an audience room on thesecond floor surrounded by a half-moon gallery, thechurch within is a thing of beauty as a rural worship regularly several hundred of the sturdydescendants of an even sturdier ancestry. Here have preached some of the most scholarly andeloquent ministers of the Lutheran church. PastorKurtz was a godly man, and a power in his day. Fromhim have descended the family of Kurtzes, who in theministry and the laity have been famous for a centuryin t
Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . t in arrangement. With a basement forSunday-school purposes, and an audience room on thesecond floor surrounded by a half-moon gallery, thechurch within is a thing of beauty as a rural worship regularly several hundred of the sturdydescendants of an even sturdier ancestry. Here have preached some of the most scholarly andeloquent ministers of the Lutheran church. PastorKurtz was a godly man, and a power in his day. Fromhim have descended the family of Kurtzes, who in theministry and the laity have been famous for a centuryin this branch of the American church. And seldomhas a congregation the privilege of enjoying such intel-lectually strong and spiritual pastoral services as wererendered during the two long-continued pastorates ofRevs. Schultze and Ulrich, the former the father of ex-Governor John Andreas Schultze, (now Shulze) ofPennsylvania, and the latter the father of a highlyrespected progeny still largely represented in this com- 54 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON TUIvPEHOCKKN GRAVEYARD. niunity and throughout this valley. The bodies of boththese godly men sleep within the old graveyard adjoin-ing. The epitaph of the former reads as follows: Ilier Ruhet Christoph Imniauuel Schultze, Prediger. war geboren deu 25 December 1740 Saatfeld in Sachsen. Er kam in das Abend land 1765 Im Ehestand lebte Er mit seiner Ehefrau Eva Elizabeth 43 Jahr Als Prediger stand er 5 Jahr in Philadelphia und 38 Jahr in Tulpehocken. Hinterlies 9 Kinder und starb den 11 Martz 1809 Alt 68 Jahr, 2 Monat 2 Wochen THE SECOND TULPEHOCKEN CHURCH. 55 By the side of Pastor Schultze sleeps his wife, whowas a daughter of Rev. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg,the Lutheran Patriarch, and a grand-daughter of ConradWeiser, and the mother of Gov. Schultze. The epitaph of Rev. Ulrich is in English, and readsas follows: In Memory of REV. DANIEL LLRICH, Born near Annville, Lebanon Co., Pa., Aug. 10, 1789. He early dedicated his lif
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