AREA HISTORY:  Visit of Lorenzo Dow, Warrington Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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VISIT OF LORENZO DOW – Page 670

Rehoboth Meeting House was a place of worship and schoolhouse located in the eastern part of 
Warrington.  It accidentally caught fire in 1835, was burned, and never after rebuilt.  It was 
used principally by the Methodists.  During the winter of 1829-30 Daniel M. Ettinger, the well-
known surveyor and citizen of York, was teaching a school in this building when the erratic yet 
world-renowned evangelist, Lorenzo Dow, visited Warrington and preached to a large audience in 
Rehoboth Meeting House.  His text was, “The end of all things is at hand.”  In the course of 
his sermon he related how he and his brother had put an end to a robin’s nest on one of his 
father’s apple trees, and for the misdeed received such an application as boys seldom relish or 
appreciate; but, he said, “the end of that robin’s nest was at hand,” and he destroyed no more.  
This visit of Dow was made soon after his return from England, when 5 shillings were paid in 
that country to hear him preach or lecture.  The next evening he preached at Lewisberry.