. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . gious. His Education.—Inasmuch as After the ReformationHeidelberg was long the headquarters of German Calvinismand gave its name to a famous Calvinistic catechism, it isaltogether likely that Alexander Mack received careful in-struction in the Heidelberg catechism, since he was born andraised only a few miles from that city. Elder JamesQuinter writes, in 1867: Although we know but little ofhis ancestors, it appears he descended from a very respect-able and wealthy
. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . gious. His Education.—Inasmuch as After the ReformationHeidelberg was long the headquarters of German Calvinismand gave its name to a famous Calvinistic catechism, it isaltogether likely that Alexander Mack received careful in-struction in the Heidelberg catechism, since he was born andraised only a few miles from that city. Elder JamesQuinter writes, in 1867: Although we know but little ofhis ancestors, it appears he descended from a very respect-able and wealthy family. He was a Presbyterian (Re-formed), and educated in the Calvinistic faith. Of hisliterary acquirements we know nothing but what we cangather from his writings, and from these it does not appearthat he had a classical Occupation.—It seems that in early life he was a miller,and operated his milling interests. Morgan Edwards, writ- 1 This biographical sketch is placed as Chapter IX, of Part I, be-cause his life belonged to the whole Brotherhood. 2 Memoir of Alexander Mack, Sen., Brethrens Encyclopedia. 56. oS GO CO w u < WQ X w o ALEXANDER MACK, SR. 57 ing in 1770, says: He had a handsome patrimony atSchriesheim, with a profitable mill and vineyard thereon,but spent all in raising and maintaining his church Marriage.—In the year 1700, at the age of twenty one, hewas married to Anna Margaretha Klingin, a native of thesame place and about his own age. To this union were bornfive children, three sons and two daughters: Johannes, JohnValentine, Alexander, Christina, and Anna Maria. His Life-Work.—His life-work began at an early was only twenty-nine years of age when the Church wasorganized and he was chosen the first minister. He how-ever had been active already for a number of years beforethis time. Being dissatisfied with the religious system inwhich he had been brought up, he directed his prayerful at-tention to the Scriptures i
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