The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . t of theSabbatarian congregation at large. The brotherhood, tofurther injure the sisterhood and undermine Beissel, assoon as the chapel, or House of Prayer, adjoining Kedarhad been demolished, erected in its place a small house orcabin for the use of the Vorsteher, in which they causedhim to take up his abode, after which for a time he de-voted himself wholly to the sisterhood. All of the buildings erected up to this time had beenbuilt without any definite plans for the future, bu
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . t of theSabbatarian congregation at large. The brotherhood, tofurther injure the sisterhood and undermine Beissel, assoon as the chapel, or House of Prayer, adjoining Kedarhad been demolished, erected in its place a small house orcabin for the use of the Vorsteher, in which they causedhim to take up his abode, after which for a time he de-voted himself wholly to the sisterhood. All of the buildings erected up to this time had beenbuilt without any definite plans for the future, but weremerely designed and erected imder the spur of whatevermotive influenced the projectors at the time being, withoutconcern as to what might be the eventual relation of onebuilding to the others. Fortunately for the brotherhood the winter of 1739-40proved to be an exceedingly mild one, no severe storms orfrosts appearing until the loth of January; consequentlythe work upon the new chapel went on without intermis-sion or hindrance. Everything, even the elements, seemed THE GERMAN SECTARIANS OF GOVERNOR JOHN PENN, WHO GRANTED THE PATENT TO THE ECKERLINGS. The Great Zionitic Saal. 385 to favor the brotherhood iu their undertaking, and by Christ-mas-day, 1739, the mason work was completed, and the frameof the great structure was raised and pinned in place. Thebrotherhood naturally felt themselves specially favored byProvidence, and likened their undertaking to the restorationof the Temple at Jerusalem in the days of old. This building, Zions Saal, was projected upon anextensive scale; it was three stories in height, and whenfinished was a large and siglitly structure. The lowerstory was a large hall, designed to accommodate the wholecongregation, secular as well as mystic or recluse, whenassembled for public worship. The walls were adornedwith texts in ornamental script, such as are still to be seenin the Saal, and with which this book is illustrated. Atone end of
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