Yorkville Enquirer

A Revolutionary Incident.—A most thrilling reminiscence in the American Revolution, is related of General Muhlenberg, whose ashes repose in the old Trappe Church, Montgomery county, Virginia. When the war broke out, Muhlenberg was the rector of a Protestant Episcopal Church in Dunmore county. On a Sunday morning he administered the communion of the Lord's Supper to his charge, stating that in the afternoon of that day he would preach a sermon on "The duties men owe to their country." At the appointed time the building was crowded with anxious listeners. The discourse was founded on a text from Solomon, "There is a time for every purpose and for every work." The sermon burned with patriotic fire; every sentence and intonation told the speaker's deep earnestness in what he was saying. Pausing a moment at the close of his discourse, he repeated the words of the text, and then, in tones of thunder, exclaimed: "The time to preach is past; the time to fight has come!" and suiting the action to the word, he threw from his shoulders his robes, and stood before the congregation in military uniform. Drumming for recruits was commenced on the spot, and it is said that almost every male of suitable age, in the congregation, enlisted forthwith.