Excerpt from A History of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1727-1819): Part XXIX of a Narrative and Critical History Prepared at the Request of the Pennsylvania-German History In 1849, the Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff published in his Kirchenfreund, Vol. II, a series of three articles on the History of the German Church in America, in which he traced the origin and growth of the Reformed and Ln theran churches through three successive periods.vi Preface. But the man who may well be called the father of Re formed history in America was the Rev. Dr. Henry Har baugh. He not only secured the manuscripts and docu ments of Dr. Mayer for the use of the church and added to them many others which he collected himself, but upon the basis of these documents he wrote two splendid vol umes, which told the story of Reformed history in America with such real enthusiasm and beauty of style, that they have always remained sources of inspiration for later students. They were: Schlatter's Life and Trav els, Philadelphia, 1857, and The Fathers of the Re formed Church, Vol. I, Philadelphia, 1857. In 1872, Dr. Harbaugh added a second volume to the Fathers of the church. In these volumes the lives and labors of the most important German Reformed ministers in Amer ica were set forth. It remained for a former president of the Pennsylvania German Society, the late Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Dubbs, to write the first connected history in his Historic Manual of the Reformed Church in the United States, Lancaster, 1885. Later he corrected and completed the story in his contribution to the American Church History Series, Vol. VIII, New York, 1895, and especially in his beauti fully illustrated and well-written work The Reformed Church in Pennsylvania, published by our Society in 1902 as part IX of its Narrative and Critical History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.