The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . then, if previously uneducated, receiveall necessary instruction in whatever pertains to the ministry. This body at present numbers about three hundred families, andthese furnish about one thousand communicants. They have about fiveministers, as many church edifices, and a sufficient number of schools The Schwenkfelders. 923 They form a very respectable portion of the German population ofPennsylvania, but have never extended them
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . then, if previously uneducated, receiveall necessary instruction in whatever pertains to the ministry. This body at present numbers about three hundred families, andthese furnish about one thousand communicants. They have about fiveministers, as many church edifices, and a sufficient number of schools The Schwenkfelders. 923 They form a very respectable portion of the German population ofPennsylvania, but have never extended themselves beyond the boundsof their original settlement. They are engaged in agriculture, manu-factures, and commerce, and very few of them rank with the class call-ed poor. By their rigid discipline they maintain a high standard of mo-rality among their people, and many of the younger branches of their fami-lies are well educated. Every family is said to possess, as a part oftheir necessary furniture, a well-selected and useful library of books ;almost entirely of German publications, in which language they main-tain their social intercourse and public UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, OR GERMAN METHODISTS. i N the year 1752, the Rev. William Otter-bein, a distinguished German divine, emi-grated to America, as a minister of theGerman Reformed Church. Not long afterhis arrival, he became deeply convinced ofthe necessity of a more powerful religionof the heart than he had ever felt, and ob-tained no rest for his soul till he found atthe cross of the Redeemer a joyful hope of the pardon of his he had himself felt the power of religion, he began to preach itwith much energetic zeal, though he was greatly persecuted by not afew of his former connexions. Not very long after this he becameassociated with two German ministering brethren of Like preciousfaith, named Boehm and Geeting and with Messrs. Asbury and Wright,two Methodist brethren, who had been sent over from Englan
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