The Church of the Brethren (Dunkers) in Lebanon County . rom Pottstown, then cameon up farther into the wilderness and organized the Con-estoga Church. Elder G. N. Falkenstein, in his historyof the Brethren for the Pennsylvania German HistoricalSociety, says of this effort that it was the most remark-able missionary tour in all Pennsylvania colonial the Conestoga organization was Conrad Beissel, whobecame its first preacher. He lived on the Muehlbach(Millbach) claimed by many as the Millbach creek whichflows into the Tulpehocken. If this view is correct, theBrethren may lay claim to
The Church of the Brethren (Dunkers) in Lebanon County . rom Pottstown, then cameon up farther into the wilderness and organized the Con-estoga Church. Elder G. N. Falkenstein, in his historyof the Brethren for the Pennsylvania German HistoricalSociety, says of this effort that it was the most remark-able missionary tour in all Pennsylvania colonial the Conestoga organization was Conrad Beissel, whobecame its first preacher. He lived on the Muehlbach(Millbach) claimed by many as the Millbach creek whichflows into the Tulpehocken. If this view is correct, theBrethren may lay claim to the first church organizationin what is now Lebanon county, three years older thanthe oldest Lutheran church. Beissel, however, in 1735withdrew to the place now known as Ephrata, Lancastercounty, and was followed by all his adherents. A few words to show the relation of the Brethren toour great national questions: From the beginning theBrethren were against slavery. Elder Christopher Sower w 3 a oc W 5*3 W dd; 5-3 3 ?d 03 O O. C • 3 s- <t 72 r*O3. 92 LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY said he trembled for our country when God would reckonwith us for this evil. One hundred years later we wereplunged into the Civil War. Lincoln was in touch with aBrethren preacher in youth and in the White House; theEmancipation Proclamation is certainly an expression ofBrethren life. The Brethren set themselves against alco-hol as a beverage almost at the beginning of our nationallife, and have been to it a consuming fire ever since. Op-position to secret societies has in these days resulted inthe life of openness; invisible government must go. TheBrethren have always insisted that the sister wear aprayer-covering, it placing her on an equality with position could only result in giving woman the bal-lot. These facts are sufl^cient to show that the Brethrenare no blind leaders of the blind. The first permanent settlement of Brethren withinthe limits of our present county was likely i
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