The Church of the Brethren (Dunkers) in Lebanon County . eet-ing-house was erected. Thus in the Tulpehocken con-gregation, the Royer house was built in 1840 and theMillbach in 1850, but preaching continued in the homeof John Gibble and of others till 1867, when the Heidel-berg house was built. Being a plain people, the Brethrenbuilt plain meeting houses. The first houses were stone;a decade later, in the fifties, they began to use brick. Thefirst houses also were comparatively small; the onlythought was a plain room in which to have preaching, thesexes not commingling. The love-feasts—the big
The Church of the Brethren (Dunkers) in Lebanon County . eet-ing-house was erected. Thus in the Tulpehocken con-gregation, the Royer house was built in 1840 and theMillbach in 1850, but preaching continued in the homeof John Gibble and of others till 1867, when the Heidel-berg house was built. Being a plain people, the Brethrenbuilt plain meeting houses. The first houses were stone;a decade later, in the fifties, they began to use brick. Thefirst houses also were comparatively small; the onlythought was a plain room in which to have preaching, thesexes not commingling. The love-feasts—the big gath-rings—were still held in the barns. But the idea of alove-feast house gradually came. The houses were en-larged, a basement placed under the whole, with facilitiesfor cooking, and long tables to feed the multitudes. Thelarge loft was floored, divided into two parts, suppliedwith the old-time rope beds, the one side for the brethren,the other for the sisters. Each congregation has at leastone love-feast house, some have two or three, along with. 100 LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY houses simply for preaching. But the Sunday School anddifferent societies within the church are gradually evoic-ing houses suited for these purposes; and in towns andcities the idea of feeding the multitudes, which Christ didonly in desert places, is giving way to methods in keepingwith city life. As the Brethren have congregational lines, we shallnow define within Lebanon county the bounds of LittleSwatara. Coming out from Berks county, the northernline is the Blue Mountain to Indiantown Gap, thencesouth along the road to Harpers, thence east along Swa-tara creek to a point opposite Bunker Hill station, thenceacross Black Oak Hill to the Gravel Hill road, thence alongsaid road to where 16th St. runs into it, thence along saidstreet to within one mile of the Reading and Harrisburgpike, thence following a line east one mile north of saidpike and parallel to it into Berks county. Now let us tu
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