A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . an) would ha\e done. He ()i)enl\ announcedthat he was in receipt of a Jarf^xr sum than he hadhoped to recei\e and at once souL^ht to show his [grati-tude for it by addini^^ to the scanty store of readingmatter then available to the Germans in America. Heissued the GcistlicJic Magazin, the first religious maga-zine published in America. This he distributee! continued to issue these magazines at irregular in-tervals for seven years. Nos. 34 and 36 were writtenby Elder Alexander Mack. Many were written bySower himself. In al
A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . an) would ha\e done. He ()i)enl\ announcedthat he was in receipt of a Jarf^xr sum than he hadhoped to recei\e and at once souL^ht to show his [grati-tude for it by addini^^ to the scanty store of readingmatter then available to the Germans in America. Heissued the GcistlicJic Magazin, the first religious maga-zine published in America. This he distributee! continued to issue these magazines at irregular in-tervals for seven years. Nos. 34 and 36 were writtenby Elder Alexander Mack. Many were written bySower himself. In all fifty were printed and givenaway. Where in the history of the world will one findsuch a striking example of disinterested Christianpiety? These magazines are now extremely writer has had the good fortune to secure in theCassel collection a complete set. The third edition, 1776. was printed and the un-bound pages were laid on the loft of the Germantownmeetinghouse to dry. Some of them were still therewhen the battle of Germantown was fought. The cav-. The Antiquarian, Abrm. H. Cassel, and the Three Sower Bibles. The Tivo Christopher Sozucrs. 411 alrymen took these sheets and scattered Lhcni undertheir horses! After the battle Sower gathered asmany of these sheets together as he could, and boundfrom them enough complete Bibles to present oneto each of his children. In the Cassel collection isone of these Bibles. It is now in my possession, to-gether with a perfect copy of the first and also of thesecond edition. Christopher Sower was a warm supporter of allproper means of educating the youth of the held, and wisely, that enlightened Christianswere the hope of the church of God. He, therefore,became a leader in founding the still famous andflourishing Germantown Academy. The Germans of Pennsylvania, anxious to establisha school for the education of the German youth ofthe province, called an educational mass meeting atGermantown, December 6, 1759. At this meeting
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