The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . Border from the Kloster Copy-booi. CHAPTER IX. THE NEW DUNKERS ON THE OR some time previous tothe occurrences narratedin the last chapter Beisseland Wohlfarth had madea practice of keeping theSabbath or the SeventhDay at their cabin in theforest without, however,making any effort to pro-mulgate the doctrine-This was an importantfeature which was over,looked by Peter Beckerand his party in the excitement incident to the great no sooner had the party returned
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . Border from the Kloster Copy-booi. CHAPTER IX. THE NEW DUNKERS ON THE OR some time previous tothe occurrences narratedin the last chapter Beisseland Wohlfarth had madea practice of keeping theSabbath or the SeventhDay at their cabin in theforest without, however,making any effort to pro-mulgate the doctrine-This was an importantfeature which was over,looked by Peter Beckerand his party in the excitement incident to the great no sooner had the party returned to Germantown thanthe fear was expressed that Beissel might attempt to intro-duce his convictions as to the true Sabbath. To counteractany such movement it was proposed to send Johannes Kem-per, who was endowed with the gift of prayer, as superin-tendent of the Conestoga congregation. There is, however,no record to be found that this proposition was carried intoexecution. The Sabbath question, together with Beisselsfuture course, gave the Germantown congregation much con-cern, and Elder Becker was publicly charged with having left too much in the hands of the new converts. Notwithstanding
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