A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . , and agristmill. The members worked in common and heldall property in common. It was an ideal communityof goods. Profits they did not desire, money theyfeared, and all excess of funds the\ freely ga\e away,holding that the rapid accumulation of wealth was notproductiw of good. l^phrata became the second great centre of the Ger-man-American printing and book-making trade inAmerica. It was equalled by none ami surpassed onlyby the .Sower ])ress ;it Cjermantou The Ephrata Society. 459 The greatest book of Colonial America, VanB
A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . , and agristmill. The members worked in common and heldall property in common. It was an ideal communityof goods. Profits they did not desire, money theyfeared, and all excess of funds the\ freely ga\e away,holding that the rapid accumulation of wealth was notproductiw of good. l^phrata became the second great centre of the Ger-man-American printing and book-making trade inAmerica. It was equalled by none ami surpassed onlyby the .Sower ])ress ;it Cjermantou The Ephrata Society. 459 The greatest book of Colonial America, VanBraghts Bhdige Schau-Platz, the Mennonites Martyrbook, was published here in 1748.^^ The largest hymnbooks and many theosophical volumes appeared fromtime to time. In 1786 appeared the Chro?nco?i Eplira-tense by Jacob Gass and Peter Miller/^) This is a his-tory of the Ephrata movement. From it much of thehistory of the Brethren can be traced; although thestudent of the Chro?iicofi must remember that it is abiased and partisan presentation of the history of theEphrata Society, and that it is by no means just to theBrethren, with whom, as this chapter shows, they werenot in harmony. Much harm will result from surface-irritators of our history who do not go back of theChronicoii data for the real facts. Here in Ephrata during the Revolutionary War,many soldiers were nursed into health, and on Zion,a part of the grounds of the society, are buried manyof the soldiers of the Continental Army. Here, too,when Howe was in posse
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