| 15 South Mulberry Street Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 301-733-3565 |
| MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the Hagerstown Church of the Brethren is to celebrate the love of Jesus Christ and glorify the Lord by striving to live as Christ lived, experiencing the power of God's healing in our lives. We seek to nurture our faith community through prayer, music and the proclaimed Word, while enthusiastically reaching out to others with compassion, respect and love for everyone so that we may grow in faith and commitment together. VISION STATEMENT Journeying with Christ - Serving Our Neighbors - Uniting at the Master’s Table |
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| Unsung Brethren |
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| James Quinter was born – February 1st 1816 – in Philadelphia, to John and Mary Smith Quinter. Working through the Brethren Church, he became a pioneer in the fields of education, ministry and professional publishing. In 1824, the Quinter family moved to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where Jim’s youth was spent in poverty – making things worse his father died when he was 13-years-old. To support his mother and younger sister, he started teaching school at age seventeen; a career lasting 23 years. Quinter was baptized in 1832, and five years later was called to be a minister in the Coventry, PA, congregation. Later, as an evangelist, James carried the gospel on horseback through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. While preaching in George’s Creek, PA, Jim met Mary Ann Moser. In the same year, 1850, the backwoods teacher and preacher took Miss Moser to be his wife and to them was born a daughter – their only child. Under the pen name, “Clement,” James Quinter began as a contributing writer for the Brethren magazine “Gospel Visitor” in 1851. Still working for the Visitor in 1856, he was called to Mill Creek congregation in Ohio where being ordained as elder. The next year his wife died of tuberculosis. His second marriage in 1861, was to Fannie Studebaker – a union producing two daughters. One of Elder Quinter’s daughters, Mary named for his first wife, became an early Brethren missionary to India. The Visitor was being published in Columbiana, Ohio, by the time Quinter remarried and after serving as editor-in-chief, he eventually purchased the magazine and changed its name to the “Primitive Christian.” In October 1876, James formed a partnership with the Brumbaugh brothers, becoming senior member of the new publishing company. In 1883, Quinter’s firm produced the “Gospel Messenger.” Today, after evolving over the years, James Quinter’s magazine is known as the Church of the Brethren’s publication the “Messenger.” |
| James Quinter |
At the age of 63, Quinter was named president
of Juniata College in Huntington, PA. He
headed Juniata until his death from a heart
attack on May 9th 1888. Mary Quinter the
missionary remembered her father with
words, “The manner of his death was a fitting
close to a long life spent in labor for the good
of humanity and for the church he loved so
well.” Following her father’s example, Mary
also served the Lord her God until the end
that came in India in 1914.
of Juniata College in Huntington, PA. He
headed Juniata until his death from a heart
attack on May 9th 1888. Mary Quinter the
missionary remembered her father with
words, “The manner of his death was a fitting
close to a long life spent in labor for the good
of humanity and for the church he loved so
well.” Following her father’s example, Mary
also served the Lord her God until the end
that came in India in 1914.