Shouting Grandma

They figured that this day would come. Grandma was 90 years old, born in 1823, the wife of a Civil War doctor. They were pioneers of this part of the country, a gift from the government for her husbands service. This was the ground where he trained soldiers.

Jacob Boehm, Running For Your Life

After learning a trade Jacob Boehm traveled, as was custom, as a itinerant journeymen for three years. The purpose was to make him a finished workman. In his wanderings Jacob fell in with a people called Pietists. In many respects they resembled the Puritans.

Jakob Boehme

“Jakob, thou art little but shall be great, and become another Man, such a one as at whom the World shall wonder. Therefore be pious, fear God, and reverence His Word. Read diligently the Holy Scriptures, wherein you have Comfort and Instruction. For thou must endure much Misery and Poverty, and suffer Persecution, but be courageous and persevere, for God loves, and is gracious to thee.”

Martin Boehm

‘To be sure,’ said he, ‘I never saw God work in this way before.’…”

Boehm’s Chapel

There are landmarks throughout the world they tell of the wonderful power of God and the experiences of man. One such place is a small chapel just south of Lancaster, PA. It still stands today with a beautiful restoration back in the 1990′s. Although the meetings that once influenced a whole generation no longer are conducted, it presence remains to draw us back to that place.

Debtors Prison, Robert Morris

Here is an except from the book, Reminiscences of Rev. Henry Boehm, which is very sobering to know that fate of someone who had greater riches than our own country and funded our revolutionary war.