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rent was known here. In Manheim, Pennsylvania, 

 stands the Zion Lutheran Church, which was gath- 

 ered together by Baron William Stiegel, who was 

 the first glass and iron manufacturer of note in this 

 country. He came to America in 1750, with a 

 fortune which would be equal to-day to a million 

 dollars, and founded and built and named Man- 

 heim. He was a man of deep spiritual and reli- 

 gious belief, and of profound sentiment, and when in 

 1771 he gave the land to the church, this clause was 

 in the indenture : 



"Yielding and paying therefor unto the said Henry 

 William Stiegel, his heirs or assigns, at the said town of 

 Manheim, in the Month of June Yearly, forever hereafter, 

 the rent of One Red Rose, if the same shall be lawfully 

 demanded." 



Nothing more touching can be imagined than the 

 fulfilment each year of this beautiful and symbolic 

 ceremony of payment. The little town is rich in 

 Roses, and these are gathered freely for the church 

 service, when One Red Rose is still paid to the heirs 

 of the sainted old baron, who died in 1778, broken 

 in health and fortunes, even having languished in 

 jail some time for debt. A new church was erected 

 on the site of the old one in 1892, and in a beauti- 

 ful memorial window the decoration of the Red 

 Rose commemorates the sentiment of its benefactor. 



The Rose Tavern, in the neighboring town of 

 Bethlehem, stands on land granted for the site of a 

 tavern by William Penn, for the yearly rental of 

 One Red Rose. 



