A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . ade wider than the door, but not higher. The writerhas often turned it on edge and carried it, as did hun-dreds before him, out of the room, and into any partof the house. So the basket fiction must be set downalong with many other kindred imaginings of thechroniclers, as evidence of modern misconceptions^and not as monuments of the folly of these early piouspeople. The Society, as early as 1745, had its own printingpress, and at about the same time a paper-mill, a full-ing-mill, a saw-mill, an oil-mill, a bookbindery, and agrist
A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . ade wider than the door, but not higher. The writerhas often turned it on edge and carried it, as did hun-dreds before him, out of the room, and into any partof the house. So the basket fiction must be set downalong with many other kindred imaginings of thechroniclers, as evidence of modern misconceptions^and not as monuments of the folly of these early piouspeople. The Society, as early as 1745, had its own printingpress, and at about the same time a paper-mill, a full-ing-mill, a saw-mill, an oil-mill, a bookbindery, and agristmill. The members worked in common and heldall property in common. It was an ideal communityof goods. Profits they did not desire, money theyfeared, and all excess of funds they freely gave away,holding that the rapid accumulation of wealth was notproductive of good. Ephrata became the second great centre of the Ger-man-American printing and book-making trade inAmerica. It was equalled by none and surpassed onlyby the Sower press at Germantown. 5p 5 8 ^ § t*l. The Eplirata Society. 459 The greatest book of Colonial America, VanBraghts Bbitigc Schau-Platz, the Mennonites Martyrbook, was published here in 1748/^ The largest hymnbooks and many theosophical volumes appeared fromtime to time. In 1786 appeared the Clironicon Ephra-tense by Jacob Gass and Peter Miller/^) This is a his-tory of the Ephrata movement. From it much of thehistory of the Brethren can be traced; although thestudent of the Chronicon must remember that it is abiased and partisan presentation of the history of theEphrata Society, and that it is by no means just to theBrethren, with whom, as this chapter shows, they werenot in harmony. Much harm will result from surface-irritators of our history who do not go back of theCliro7iico7i data for the real facts. Here in Ephrata during the Revolutionary War,many soldiers were nursed into health, and on Zion,a part of the grounds of the society, are buried manyof the s
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