The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . Midnight Services. 255. tual Virgins were Maria Hildebrand, Barbara Meyer, Maria Stattler and Maria Heidt, who now bound themselves by a pledge to a communal life. The upper story of Kedar was given to them as their retreat from the world. Shortly afterwards the lower or ground-floor was handed over to the strictest of the single I brethren for a similar purpose. These were Michael Wohlfarth, Jan Meyle, Just and Theonis. The arrangement was that the brethren first held their devot
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . Midnight Services. 255. tual Virgins were Maria Hildebrand, Barbara Meyer, Maria Stattler and Maria Heidt, who now bound themselves by a pledge to a communal life. The upper story of Kedar was given to them as their retreat from the world. Shortly afterwards the lower or ground-floor was handed over to the strictest of the single I brethren for a similar purpose. These were Michael Wohlfarth, Jan Meyle, Just and Theonis. The arrangement was that the brethren first held their devotions; then, after they had filed out of the Saal, the sisters entered for their hour of prayer. This was soon afterwards changed so that the midnight prayers {nachi-nictten) were held jointly—an arrangement which gave ^^SX renewed cause for scandal and gossip c*:s»>oJ among the enemies of the Community. Beissel, who at first presided over thejoint services, taught them on both sides as a priestly generation to lift up hands unto God onbehalf of the domestic household, which was so sorelybound under the yoke of the world ; and
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