An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . for improvement was in the air. In additionto building the parsonage, remodeling the church, and repair-ing the Sunday-school building, the steeple was painted, and?another story put on the sextons house; an iron railing wassubstituted for the old brick wall about the church; a peal ofeight bells was hung in the tower, and the organ was re-modeled at an outlay of ;^ 1,—the original frame beingkept intact. The organ and chimes were used for the
An outline history of a church; a memorial of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania . for improvement was in the air. In additionto building the parsonage, remodeling the church, and repair-ing the Sunday-school building, the steeple was painted, and?another story put on the sextons house; an iron railing wassubstituted for the old brick wall about the church; a peal ofeight bells was hung in the tower, and the organ was re-modeled at an outlay of ;^ 1,—the original frame beingkept intact. The organ and chimes were used for the firsttime on Sunday, May 28, 1854. The largest of the old bellswas cast in England in 1769 for Trinity Church, and is stillhanging in the steeple. The smaller one—now the propertyof Grace Lutheran Church—was cast in England in 1745, forthe monastic Prior of the Seventh Day Baptists near seems that when this remarkable bell was landed in Phila-delphia, it was utterly rejected by the Ephrata brethren—doomed to be destroyed, broken to pieces and buried in thevcarth. But better counsel prevailed, and it was sold to the 26. 1Rcminiscencc6 Trinity congregation and placed in the steeple of the old stonechurch. Through French and Indian wars it rang; throughthe dark days of the Revolution it rang; for more than a cen-tury, in the old church and the new, it rang. It gave thealarm of fire, it summoned men to arms, it called the hosts to
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