The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . CHAPTER ,—THE SERPENTS HEN Conrad Beissel badehis dramatic adieu to thecongregation, it was evi-dently part of a precon-ceived scheme to throwoff the care of them andonce more retire to thesolitude of the forest, thereto devote himself to a lifeof self-contemplation. Whether he had wellconsidered the effect ofthe desertion of his fol-lowers is a question not to be answered at this late , he gathered up his books and papers and onceagain, winter th
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . CHAPTER ,—THE SERPENTS HEN Conrad Beissel badehis dramatic adieu to thecongregation, it was evi-dently part of a precon-ceived scheme to throwoff the care of them andonce more retire to thesolitude of the forest, thereto devote himself to a lifeof self-contemplation. Whether he had wellconsidered the effect ofthe desertion of his fol-lowers is a question not to be answered at this late , he gathered up his books and papers and onceagain, winter though it was, journeyed, staff in hand,deeper into the unbroken forest. His goal lay eight milesnorth by west. Here, upon the banks of a romantic stream,beside a never-failing spring of limpid water, a cabinhad been previously built, far away from any humanhabitation, by Emanuel Eckerling. The situation was asomewhat peculiar one: the bottom or meadow whereinthe cabin stood was one avoided even by the Indians onaccount of the numberless snakes with which the meadowand the banks of the creek were infested. They called itHoch-Halekiing^ or the Den of Serpen
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