. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . Farm House where Annual Meeting of 1790 was Held, THE COVENTRY CHURCH. 223 The second church handed down the seats with reversiblebacks, every third one used at love-feast for a table, dimin-ishing the seating capacity one third, and placing one halfof the communicants with their backs to the new form of communion table, with table fastened tothe back of each seat, was adopted, February i, 1908. In1892 a quadrupled silver communion set sup
. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . Farm House where Annual Meeting of 1790 was Held, THE COVENTRY CHURCH. 223 The second church handed down the seats with reversiblebacks, every third one used at love-feast for a table, dimin-ishing the seating capacity one third, and placing one halfof the communicants with their backs to the new form of communion table, with table fastened tothe back of each seat, was adopted, February i, 1908. In1892 a quadrupled silver communion set supplanted the oldpewter vessels. It was decided to put a baptistry into thechurch, November 30, 1903. This came after years ofdiscussion. It cost $ The Graveyard. We quote from a letter of Dr. Wm. Brower of SpringCity: Martin Urner, Sr., donated the Coventry Breth-ren Graveyard in 1743. Coventry Church erected theirfirst meeting-house in 1772, twenty-nine years after thestarting of the burying ground. Unfortunately the siteselected for a church house was fully a quarter of a mileaway from the graveyard. In this historic burying groundlie buried six of the Elders who served the Cov
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