Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . tism or denominational propagandism did notenter the minds of these unsuspecting men, thirstyfor the water of life. Hence it comes that such leadingLutherans as Conrad Weiser and Peter Kucher, andsuch Reformed as Heinrich Xanders and others, be-came early identified with this church, many of whomremained loyal to the church of their adoption untodeath, while some, as Conrad Weiser, returned to theirfirst love, their mother church. The history of the Hebron Church is a long andcheckered one, full of interest to every student of his-tory. We
Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . tism or denominational propagandism did notenter the minds of these unsuspecting men, thirstyfor the water of life. Hence it comes that such leadingLutherans as Conrad Weiser and Peter Kucher, andsuch Reformed as Heinrich Xanders and others, be-came early identified with this church, many of whomremained loyal to the church of their adoption untodeath, while some, as Conrad Weiser, returned to theirfirst love, their mother church. The history of the Hebron Church is a long andcheckered one, full of interest to every student of his-tory. We feel confident in saying that there is not acongregation within the county that has a more mi-nutely written history than this one. The happy cus-tom of the Moravian Church of requesting its resident 190 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. pastors to keep faithfully a full diary of events trans-piring within the congregation, or occurring within thecommunity or country at large, has here preserved arecord of local and national events that is one of the. THE HEBRON MORAVIAN CHURCH. richest treasures to the historian and antiquarian any-where to be found throughout all this valley. Thewriter was recently shown a pile of old journals—almostas high as the publications that confronted Luther atthe Diet of Worms—which is simply a library of ten ortwelve large volumes of manuscript church records andmemorabilia of this Hebron Geineinleiii in the hand- THE HEBRON MORAVIAN CHURCH. IQi writing of its successive pastors. As this church,erected in 1750, and in part still standing on propertynow owned by Mr. David Fulmer (but alas! this portionof a once sacred structure, hallowed alike for its associa-tions with church and state, is now used as a cowstable!) was used during the Revolutionary War as aplace of incarceration for several hundred of Hessianprisoners, this diary is of intense interest during thisperiod. The church was then in pastoral charge ofBrother Bader, who is found, in th
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