Penjyhaniat Fhyladelpbia, 39 



fermons a week. And after his death, 

 which happened in Novemberij/\.iy the Ger^ 

 mans firft wrote to Germany for a clergyman 

 for themfelves. This congregation is at pre- 

 fent very numerous, fo that every funday 

 the church is very much crowded. It has 

 two galleries, but no veftry. They do not 

 fmg the collects, but read them before the 

 altar. 



4. The o/d Prejbyterian churchy is not 

 far from the market, and on the. fouth-fide 

 oi market-jirtet. It is of a middling fize, 

 and built in the year 1704, as the infcrip- 

 tion on the northern pediment fhews. 

 The roof is built almoft hemifpherical, or at 

 leaft forms a hexagon. The whole build- 

 ing ftands from north to fouth, for the 

 prelbyterians do not regard, as other people 

 do, whether their churches look towards a 

 certain point of the heavens or not. 



5. The new Prejbyterian church was 

 built in the year 1750, by the New-lights 

 in the north- weftern part of the town. By 

 the name of New-lightSy are underflood the 

 people who have, from different religions, 

 become profelytes to the well known 

 Whitefieldy who in the years 1739, 1740, 

 and likewife in 1744 and 1745 travelled 

 through almofl all the EngliJJ:) colonies. 

 His delivery, his extraordinary zeal, and 



C 4 other 



