. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. ay, but it suited the times and the circum-stances, was eminently successful, and crowned thousandsof homes with the richest blessings the gospel can am not speaking of an isolated circumstance, but of auniversal condition and the halo of glory of these home-sanctuary scenes has brightened and blessed the lives of 46 The Pennsylvania-German Society. thousands and thousands of Pennsylvania-Germans. Therewere homes in which such a sanctuary existed for two andthree generations, and grace and blessing is the heritage ofthe family unto thi
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. ay, but it suited the times and the circum-stances, was eminently successful, and crowned thousandsof homes with the richest blessings the gospel can am not speaking of an isolated circumstance, but of auniversal condition and the halo of glory of these home-sanctuary scenes has brightened and blessed the lives of 46 The Pennsylvania-German Society. thousands and thousands of Pennsylvania-Germans. Therewere homes in which such a sanctuary existed for two andthree generations, and grace and blessing is the heritage ofthe family unto this day. For forty-seven years there wasnot a church or meeting-house among the Brethren. Thefirst one was built at Germantovvn in 1770, and there werebut few for the next ten or twenty years. There are in exist-ence to-day many old Pennsylvania homesteads, homes ofthe old families, that were built with special referenceto the sanctuary altar, and the accommodation of the« meetings. We shall know fully about the first meet-ing-house a little ««<^
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