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Title: Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Croll, P. C. (Philip Columbus), 1852-1949
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lutheran Publication Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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llustrate our faith in the first resurrection ofthe pious dead, while robins and song-sparrows help tolure us into an hour of memorial reverie and review.By the aid of some magic wand let us then call up theslumbering prophets, and while they may look in uponour latter life of modern improvements, we will catch,we trust, a sense of their piety and self-denial, while wegaze for an hour into their once familiar countenances. The first that must be called up are those earliestsupply-pastors, or missionaries, who preached the Gos-pel here before the first synodical organization of thisdenomination was effected in this country. These werelo (137) 138 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY the Revs. Rieger, Boehm and Weiss, names that standliigh in the earliest annals of the Reformed church inAmerica. They were the very earliest pastors of thischurch, and did much pioneer work for this denomina-tion in Pennsylvania. Boehm began to preach in 1726,before he was formally licensed. He took up his home
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THE TUr.PEHOCKEN REFORMED PARSONAGE. in Whitpain township, then Philadelphia county, aboutsixteen miles north of that city, from whence he sup-plied surrounding places, even Philadelphia. At thisplace (Whitpain) he built up a flourishing church thatstill bears his name. Weiss located at Skippach, Mont- AN HOUR WITH REFORMED PASTORS. 139 gomery county, after arriving in this country with fiftyfamilies of native Palatines, September 21, 1727, hav-ing been sent hither as the first ordained pastor of theReformed church in Pennsylvania, by the upper con-sistory, or classis, of the Palatinate. He served all theolder congregations of the upper end of Montgomerycounty, such as Old and New Goschenhoppen, Gross-Schwam, etc. He also visited the Fatherland, with oneReif, in the interests of the struggling Reformed congre-gations of Pennsylvania, and for a brief period preachedat Rhinebeck, N. Y. Reiger arrived in this country inSeptember, 1731. He settled at Lancaster, and suppliedthe surrounding

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