The Middle Octorara Meeting House

I mentioned that this past Saturnday we packed up the van and drove a whole hour plus a few minutes on a Covenanted field trip to the oldest Covenanter meeting house in the States (actually, before they were States).

Here's me next to the sign facing the road:


Okay, COVENATER???

Below, we see (sadly) a far too large of a percentage of the remaining Covenanters in Pennsylvania, in the pews (the pic is taken from behind the pulpit):


The really cool thing about Middle Octorara is that the National Covenant, as well as the Solemn League and Covenant, were renewed there.... right here, IN PENNSYLVANIA! Well, I think it's cool, even if the Reformed Presbytery didn't seem to think it was all that cool. In an Overture on Covenant Renewal published by the RP, it is said, "We merely refer to the Octoraro transaction, conducted by that unstable minister, Mr. Craighead, as being unworthy of anything more than historical note." Oh, well.

Read the account yourself, and decide whether or not this is simply a historical note, or a noble and solemn renewal of the Covenants in the Colonies.

See also Hare Brained Ideas' info on the Middle Octorara meeting house.