The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . 6 was thepilgrimage made by the Germantown Baptists to Ephrata,with the avowed purpose of combining the two congrega-tions. This movement was directed by one of the Baptistleaders from Germany, Jeremias Naass, who eventuallybecame the elder of the German Baptists in West Jersey. As Beissel, Weiser, Miller and other prominent characterswere absent on another revival tour in the Tulpehockencountry, no definite results were reached as to the proposedunion. The outcome of this movemen
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . 6 was thepilgrimage made by the Germantown Baptists to Ephrata,with the avowed purpose of combining the two congrega-tions. This movement was directed by one of the Baptistleaders from Germany, Jeremias Naass, who eventuallybecame the elder of the German Baptists in West Jersey. As Beissel, Weiser, Miller and other prominent characterswere absent on another revival tour in the Tulpehockencountry, no definite results were reached as to the proposedunion. The outcome of this movement will be related ina subsequent chapter. 272 The Grriiuni Sectarian: of Pennsylvania. We will now once again change the scene of our narra-tive and return to Germantown, to tell the story of themovement which led to the temporary settlement of a littlesecluded valley on the Wissahickon, a spot about whichnow cluster many tales of romance and fiction, one whichhas been immortalized by the artists brush and the poetspen, and which is known to the generations of the presentas the JNIoNASTERV OF THE !P^
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