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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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banon, pickingup along the way the scattered leaves of unwritten his-tory. So we will go about three miles east of Myers-town to the oldest and one of the most importantchurches of the Reformed denomination in all thisvalley. It is known as the Tulpehocken Reformedchurch, and has a long and intensely interesting history.Because of its having been served by the two Leinbachbrethren, Thomas H. and Charles, for over half a cen-tury, it is commonly spoken of as the LeinbachKirche. It is located just west of the Tulpehocken Lutheranchurch, about a mile and a half west of Stouchsburg,along the turnpike, near a little village that has grownup recently under the name of Cocena. It is situated (128) THE TULPEHOCKEN REFORMED CHURCH. 129 on rising ground, like that of the Lutheran church nearby, along a bend of the Tulpehocken creek, while thetwo historic and venerable sites, with their sacredtemples and burial grounds and ancient parsonages,frown at or greet one another (as the heart of the ob-
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TULPEHOCKEN REFORMED CHURCH. server is filled with bigotry or fraternity) from theiropposing hill-sides, like the ancient mountains of Ebaland Gerizim. We trust they have both been mountsof blessing during all the hundred and fifty years ofgospel light that crown them. It would seem at least 130 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. as if the earliest settlers that worshiped here desired thatthese sacred spots might prove Gerizims and not Ebals,where many of them built their houses even with aversion of the promised Mosaic blessing (Deut. xxviii.6) engraved upon them, Gott gesegne dieses Haus, undwer da gehet ein und aus. With no fear of having curses heaped upon us, let usrepair to the spacious, stone manse that stands a littleoff the roadway, to the south. Although the presentgenial dominie. Rev. H. J. Welker, has a little farm ofthirty acres to superintend, beside his parish work, wewill find him none too busy to give us a little time andlead us into the very interesting past and presen

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