The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . CONRAD BEISSEL. CHAPTER HUT IN THE HORTLY after the ret-arn ofBeissel and Van Bebber tothe Miihlbach from their pil-grimage to Bohemia Manor,they were joined by GeorgeStiefel, another companionon the voyage to four enthusiasts nowdetermined to enter upon ajoint life of probation andseclusion from the world, or,as the original manuscriptChronicon stated, they re-solved to dwell together in a brotherly and communalmamier. Religious meetings were hencefor
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . CONRAD BEISSEL. CHAPTER HUT IN THE HORTLY after the ret-arn ofBeissel and Van Bebber tothe Miihlbach from their pil-grimage to Bohemia Manor,they were joined by GeorgeStiefel, another companionon the voyage to four enthusiasts nowdetermined to enter upon ajoint life of probation andseclusion from the world, or,as the original manuscriptChronicon stated, they re-solved to dwell together in a brotherly and communalmamier. Religious meetings were henceforth held at regularhours in the small hut in the forest, as well as about thecountry, whenever the opportunity offered. Instructionwas also imparted to such children as were sent to the fourrecluses. One of these scholars, Barbara Meyer, afterwardsknown as Sister Jael, was attached to the Community foralmost sixty years, as the Chronicon states : There is still [1786] a person in the Sisters Conventwho, in her childhood, had gone to him, and had becomeso enamored of his [Beissels] angelic life that she becamehis steadfast follower, and has now for almost sixty
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