The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . ts in combating thewave of indifference. They were evidently attracted bythe fact that, among the many German settlers who hadlocated here of late years, a considerable number were oftheir faith, and now, owing to the total absence of anyservices of their church and the intercourse with the variousSeparatists were lapsing into a state of heterodoxy. Thus it was that several priests itinerated through the Catholic Missionaries. 213 Province and labored among the Germans of their fa
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . ts in combating thewave of indifference. They were evidently attracted bythe fact that, among the many German settlers who hadlocated here of late years, a considerable number were oftheir faith, and now, owing to the total absence of anyservices of their church and the intercourse with the variousSeparatists were lapsing into a state of heterodoxy. Thus it was that several priests itinerated through the Catholic Missionaries. 213 Province and labored among the Germans of their faith,scattered as they were, in the hope of gathering and keeping them steadfast in the traditions of their fathers. Theredoes not appear to be any evidence or record that thesemissionaries made any attempt at proselyting, or that theylabored among any but their own faith. Such was the spiritual condition among the Germans inthe Province at the time when Conrad Beissel resigned theleadership of the Conestoga congregation, and took thestep which led to the establishment of the Mystic Com-munity on the Original tail piece from Kloster Type Font. 314 The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania. Ws> xm Cotttrrtfacmr/ fptM: Sd^wencfftltts von (Dntng/lub^oberft ^NCIUTLT VOM OSIINO j- 5VjE UCVl K.
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