. Missionary Visitor, The (1904). is 45x80 feet, with a wing15x30 and cost, including a lot, about$7,000. The lot cost $2,250. Besides asplendid audience room, there are roomsfor a library and for Sunday-schoolclasses. In 1883 a few members began work ina rented hall by organizing a Sundayschool, and having now and then a ser-mon by a visiting minister. In 1885 thefirst house was built and the little bodyof about twenty-five members beganwork under the leadership of Hiram as minister. Soon W. S. Reichard,the present elder in charge, moved came until at present a member-ship of
. Missionary Visitor, The (1904). is 45x80 feet, with a wing15x30 and cost, including a lot, about$7,000. The lot cost $2,250. Besides asplendid audience room, there are roomsfor a library and for Sunday-schoolclasses. In 1883 a few members began work ina rented hall by organizing a Sundayschool, and having now and then a ser-mon by a visiting minister. In 1885 thefirst house was built and the little bodyof about twenty-five members beganwork under the leadership of Hiram as minister. Soon W. S. Reichard,the present elder in charge, moved came until at present a member-ship of some two hundred worship atthis altar. The greatest need of this congrega-tion, as felt by some of its best thinkers,is a more united effort of the entiremembership to reach out for the un-saved. Some think a sister to visitwould greatly aid. The prospects are encouraging for thischurch, and it stands, with several oth-ers, as an example of a church of theBrethren flourishing in a city. October, 1904] THE MISSIOXARY VISITOR 4*5. Hagerstown Church, Md. ON THE TOMBSTONES SHOWNON PAGE 417. In the upper picture to the right ofthe center the white stone is at the headof Alexander Mack and by his side, tothe left in the picture, his wife. OnAlexander Macks stone is this wording: ALEXANDER MACK, The First Minister and Organizer of the Church of the Brethren, in the Year 1708. Born at Schriesheim, Germain-, 1679. Came to Germantown, 1729. Died, 1735. Removed from Axes Burying Ground, 1894. The upper one to the left is the tombof Peter Becker and has on the stonethe following: In Memor} of PETER BECKER. First Elder of the Brethren in America. Born at Dilsheim in Germany. 1687. Embraced the Doctrine of the Brethren, 1711. Emigrated with Twenty Families of Brethren and Settled in Germantown, 1719. Came to Indian Creek in 1747 and Died March 19. 1758. He Was Married to Dorothy Partman, by Whom He Had Two Daughters. Mary Married Rudolph Harley and Elizabeth Jacob Stump. Erected by His Grea
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