The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . SPECIMEN OF ORNAMENTAL PEN-WORK FROM THE SISTERS MS. HYMNAL. (Size one-fourth of original.) CHAPTER KAMPFF UND HE setttlement now becamethe rallying-point for all theGerman Baptists, both First-and Seventh-day, within awide circuit; the meetingswere also largely attended bymany Mennonites of the sur-rounding country, and bysuch of the German settlersas were either lukewarm intheir fealty to their ortho-dox faiths or were debarredby distance from attendin
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . SPECIMEN OF ORNAMENTAL PEN-WORK FROM THE SISTERS MS. HYMNAL. (Size one-fourth of original.) CHAPTER KAMPFF UND HE setttlement now becamethe rallying-point for all theGerman Baptists, both First-and Seventh-day, within awide circuit; the meetingswere also largely attended bymany Mennonites of the sur-rounding country, and bysuch of the German settlersas were either lukewarm intheir fealty to their ortho-dox faiths or were debarredby distance from attending the services of any organizedcongregation of their particular order. Again, the introduction of mystic theology-, combinedwith some of the esoteric teachings of the Rosicruciancultus and a closer form of organization with stricterdiscipline, added to the strength of the new communityby attracting a number of kindred spirits who had beenimbued with such speculations in the Fatherland. Among the new arrivals about this time may be men-tioned the Thoma family, from Viedendorf, in the Cantonof Basel, province of Wallenberg, Switzerland. It consistedof the father, Durst [Theodorus] Thoma, his wife, Catha-rina, three sons, Theodore, Hans Jacob and
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