A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . he sametime made to rejoice with great inward joyfulness, andby grace they were deeply impressed with these sig-nificant words, Be ye fruitful and multiply! Thisoccurred in the year above mentioned, 1708. But ofthe month of the year, or the day of the month orweek, they have left no record. After this the said eight persons were more andmore powerfully strengthened in their obedience tathe faith they had adopted, and were enabled to testi-fy publicly in their meetings to the truth; and theLord granted them his special grace, so t
A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . he sametime made to rejoice with great inward joyfulness, andby grace they were deeply impressed with these sig-nificant words, Be ye fruitful and multiply! Thisoccurred in the year above mentioned, 1708. But ofthe month of the year, or the day of the month orweek, they have left no record. After this the said eight persons were more andmore powerfully strengthened in their obedience tathe faith they had adopted, and were enabled to testi-fy publicly in their meetings to the truth; and theLord granted them his special grace, so that still morebecame obedient to the faith, and thus, within seven. The Mother Congregatioii Germany 41 years time, namely to the year 1715, there was notonly in Schwarzenau a large church, but, here andthere in the Palatinate, there were lovers of the truth,and especially was this the case in Marienborn, where•a church was gathered; for the church in the Palati-nate was persecuted, and its members then came toMarienborn. And, when the church here became. House and Barn Combined—Schwarzenau. large, it was also persecuted. Then those that werepersecuted collected in Crefeld, where they foundliberty under the king of Prussia, Moreover the Lord called, during those seven years,several laborers, and sent them into his harvest,among whom were, John Henry Kalkleser, of Frank-enthal; Christian Libe and Abraham Duboy, from 42 History of the Brethren. Ebstein; John Nasz and several others from Norten;Peter Becker, from Dillsheim. And to these wereadded also John Henry Trout and his brothers, Hein-rich Holsapple, and Stephen Koch. The most ofthese came during those seven years to Crefeld; JohnHenry Kalkleser, however, and Abraham Duboy cameto Schwarzenau; so did also George B. Gansz, fromUmstatt, and Michael Eckerlin, from Strasburg. But as they found favor with God and men on theone hand, so (on the other hand) there were alsoenemies of the truth, and there arose here and therep
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