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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 7, 1909

Monument to a Colonial Sabbath-Keeper

By W. A. S.

THE Philadelphia Record of September 27 has the following editorial note:—

Conrad Weiser, the pioneer settler to whom a monument was erected at Womelsdorf on Saturday, deserved to be remembered by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was a great pacificator, and by his friendly influence did more to protect the early settlers of western Pennsylvania from the depredations of fierce and vengeful Indian

tribes than could have been accomplished by many battalions of armed men. In paying a belated tribute to his memory a debt long overdue has been satisfied.

It is plain from the fragmentary record of Weiser’s private life that his interest in the Indians was primarily a missionary interest. He loved them and desired to help them; and this it was that gave him greater influence with the tribes from the Delaware to the Ohio than any other man of colonial times. Hence his services were in continual demand. It was the same loyalty to principle and the Word of God that made him a Sabbath-keeper which gave him so large a place in the Indian history of that period. W. A. S.