Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . CHAPTER 11. THE RELIGION AND THE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS OFTHE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS. ^JJINCE many of the Germans who came to the New^ World in the eighteenth century left their nativecountry because they were not allowed the liberty of wor-shiping their God in their own way, it is not at all sur-prising that religion was one of the dominating factors ofPennsylvania German civilization throughout the entirecentury. In fact we find that the various religious den
Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . CHAPTER 11. THE RELIGION AND THE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS OFTHE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS. ^JJINCE many of the Germans who came to the New^ World in the eighteenth century left their nativecountry because they were not allowed the liberty of wor-shiping their God in their own way, it is not at all sur-prising that religion was one of the dominating factors ofPennsylvania German civilization throughout the entirecentury. In fact we find that the various religious denom-inations or their pastors exerted a very powerful influenceon almost all of the educational ventures, on a great manycharitable undertakings and even on the politics of theperiod.^^^ The Dunkers, the Mennonites, the SeventhDay Dunkers, the Reformed, the Lutherans, the Mora-vians, the Catholics, the Schwenkfelders and the Separa-tists are mentioned in the newspapers, the last two, how-ever, receiving only passing mention.^^* The Dunkers and the Mennonites have many beliefs incommon. Saurs paper, as the great Dunker organ, is th
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