The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . Oldest known Picture ov Ephk by their mystic symbolism, the quaint architecture or in-terior arrangements of their habitations, or the curiousreligious ceremonials or rites that this band of Sabbath-keepers will live and go down to posterity for ages to come,but by the fact that from almost the earliest formation ofthe society they made free use of the printing press, ob-taining as early as 1745 a press of their own, the firstoutside Philadelphia county; the second to print withGe
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . Oldest known Picture ov Ephk by their mystic symbolism, the quaint architecture or in-terior arrangements of their habitations, or the curiousreligious ceremonials or rites that this band of Sabbath-keepers will live and go down to posterity for ages to come,but by the fact that from almost the earliest formation ofthe society they made free use of the printing press, ob-taining as early as 1745 a press of their own, the firstoutside Philadelphia county; the second to print withGerman characters, and the third in the Province. Im-prints from this press are at the present day among thescarcest and most prized specimens of Americana. 32 The German Sectarians of Map of the Palatinatk, whknce cams most of thk early Emigration to Penngvlvania.(From the German Exodus to England, 1709.) CHAPTER GERMAN PILGRIMS.
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