A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . ,: ? jBidii^en and Mariedbora) and Wittgensteim. Intiaese free states these exiles were weloMned and fxo-tecfied. T -:- ratty where Christo- ^ - ,-3^ ijje i^b: : ^iras Count Casinnr, He began to administer the governmentin IJ12. Dmrii^ his minonty his pious mother. Count-ess Hefiwj^ Sogrfiia reigned. Sie was a warm firiend ofHocfamann and a protectcMr of all the awakenedones, imclluding Alexander Mack and his firiends. Count Casimir £trf]Iowed the example of his motherand awarded the faUest prutectikm to the Brethren andto all ot
A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . ,: ? jBidii^en and Mariedbora) and Wittgensteim. Intiaese free states these exiles were weloMned and fxo-tecfied. T -:- ratty where Christo- ^ - ,-3^ ijje i^b: : ^iras Count Casinnr, He began to administer the governmentin IJ12. Dmrii^ his minonty his pious mother. Count-ess Hefiwj^ Sogrfiia reigned. Sie was a warm firiend ofHocfamann and a protectcMr of all the awakenedones, imclluding Alexander Mack and his firiends. Count Casimir £trf]Iowed the example of his motherand awarded the faUest prutectikm to the Brethren andto all other pooms souls. It was this atmosphere, fragrant with the prayers ofpGQKnts, reli^iooB refi^ees that Sower breathed in hisyoun^ d^ns. To the Brethren he was especiaZly at-tacJied. That he was baptized in Genmany is notprobable^ As a child he attended the little R^ormed churchnear Laa^phe aisd, no doubt, at first was a believer intheir faith. But he eari^ withdrew ajnid began il jununik: ior ssmd-selL Just what led him to the Brethren is not TJic Two Christopher Sowers. 345 But for them he early manifested a warm he approached young manhood it is surmisedby some that he learned the trade of a tailor. Thisstatement has no warrant beyond the following: Saur is a very ingenious man. He is a separatistwho has become dexterous in, at least, thirty (30)trades. For, having come over to America as a tailor,he has since become a printer, apothecary, surgeon,botanist, clock and watchmaker, cabinet maker, book-binder, newspaper maker, manufacturer of his owntools, wire and lead drawer, paper maker,(i> etc., etc. That this is not true is apparent when we rememberthat he was a doctor of medicine and a graduate ofMarburg ^2) University. He acquired his medical loreat Halle in the famous school of August HermannFrancke, In 1698, Francke established an institutionknown as ^ Das Haitische Waise7iha7is. For the supportof this institution Francke compounded medicines,a
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