FRONT COVER: A 1923 patriotic celebration at the Harrison Valley Methodist Episcopal Church in Potter County.

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 United Methodist

Church, PO Box 2053, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-2053.

THE CHRONICLE

Journal of the Historical Society

of the

Central Pennsylvania Conference

of the

United Methodist Church

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 New York Spectator, 1818

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 Harrison Valley Celebration……………………….………….……………..67

compiled from the Conference Archives, 2007

Assessing the Central Pennsylvania Conference: 1900-1965……………….....72

by Edgar Skillington, 1965

We Remember Luthers Mills……………………………….……………...…...82

by Dwight E. Loder, 1976

Home Missionary Edith Orvis: The Soul of Berwick’s Unity Mission……......86

compiled from the Conference Archives, 2007

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