The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . ORNAMENTAL DESIGN IN ELOSTER SPECIMEN BOOK, CHAPTER ROSTER OF THE OW that the monastic featurewas adopted by both orders ofsolitary, and the vain clothing ofthe world with its varigated hues,ornaments and furbelows hadbeen renounced for the peniten-tial robe of the early Christians,the next step was to sink theiridentity still further by droppingthe Babylonian names giventhem by their parents at baptismand substituting therefor newspiritual names,—names by whic
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . ORNAMENTAL DESIGN IN ELOSTER SPECIMEN BOOK, CHAPTER ROSTER OF THE OW that the monastic featurewas adopted by both orders ofsolitary, and the vain clothing ofthe world with its varigated hues,ornaments and furbelows hadbeen renounced for the peniten-tial robe of the early Christians,the next step was to sink theiridentity still further by droppingthe Babylonian names giventhem by their parents at baptismand substituting therefor newspiritual names,—names by which many of the inmatesbecame more or less famous and by which they are knownin history. There are quite a number of these religious enthusiastswhose former identity is irretrievably lost, as there is noclue to their baptismal names or former station in is a tradition that originally a register was keptwherein the names, both baptismal and cloister, are said tohave been entered. An extended search, covering a periodof over twenty years, has failed to find any person who hasever seen such a book. The sisterhood, in connection withtheir diary, kept a register of such as became unfaith
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