FRONT COVER: A 1923
patriotic celebration at the Harrison Valley Methodist Episcopal Church in
See the article beginning on
page 67.
BACK COVER: I Yield is the
first selection in the gospel songbook Helpful
Songs New and Old by Walton L. Kamble.
See the article beginning on
page 46.
THE CHRONICLE is published
by the Historical Society of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Church,
THE CHRONICLE
Journal of the Historical Society
of the
of the
United
Milton W. Loyer
Editor
Volume XVIII spring 2007
Editor's Preface ........................................................................................ .........2
Evangelical
James Barber, Evangelical Preacher: His Life and Times, 1797-1867 .4
by Denny Williams, 2006
Bendersville: Tales of an Evangelical Congregation . .34
Persecution of the Albrights from the
The Bendersville Congregation by Charles
Gladfelter, 1976
Solomon Neitz, My Great-Grandfather
.
..40
by Robert E. Woodside,1979
Walton L. Kamble and Friends
..
.........
.46
by Milton Loyer 2006
United Brethren
Papers Pertaining to Jacob Erb............................................................................55
Memoir of Bishop J. Erb by
D.R. Burkholder, 1884...............58
Jacob Erb, Circuit Hiker
by Paul Holdcraft, 1961
......61
Bishop Jacob Erb by Milton Loyer, 1984
.........63
Methodist
A
compiled from
the Conference Archives, 2007
Assessing
the
by Edgar Skillington, 1965
We
Remember Luthers Mills
.
...
...82
by Dwight E. Loder, 1976
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compiled from the Conference Archives, 2007
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