. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. m, with a profitable mill and vineyard thereon,but spent all in raising and maintaining his church atSchwarzenau. Marriage.—In the year 1700, at the age of twenty-one,he was married to Anna Margaretha Klingin, a native ofthe same place and about his own age. To this union wereborn five children, three sons and two daughters. Life-work.— His life-work began at an early was only twenty-nine years of age when the churchwas organized and he was chosen the first minister, but hehad been active already for a number of years before thistime.
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. m, with a profitable mill and vineyard thereon,but spent all in raising and maintaining his church atSchwarzenau. Marriage.—In the year 1700, at the age of twenty-one,he was married to Anna Margaretha Klingin, a native ofthe same place and about his own age. To this union wereborn five children, three sons and two daughters. Life-work.— His life-work began at an early was only twenty-nine years of age when the churchwas organized and he was chosen the first minister, but hehad been active already for a number of years before thistime. Being dissatisfied with the religious system in whichhe had been brought up, he directed his prayerful atten-tion to the scriptures in searching for the old paths, forhe was anxious to ascertain the mind of the Lord as thereinrevealed. This soon brought persecution and in a few Memoir of Alexander Mack, Sen., Brethrens Encyclopedia. Materials toward A History of the American Baptists, Vol. I., Part IV. Alexander Mack. 61 -r ??r?&sr_ S:. ^ p1 *J!i; gp s Hi *3CTra *i&i 62 The Pennsylvania-German Society. years he was an exile from his splendid estate at Schries-heim. He took his wife and little ones, and with manyothers found refuge at Schwarzenau under the mild ruleof Count Henry. Here he found many active Pietists andamong them Ernest Christoph Hochmann von Hochenauwho was an active evangelist and with whom Mack trav-eled much, for they held much in common. There is nodoubt but that Hochmanns Confession of Faith encouragedand confirmed Mack considerably in his own growing con-victions ; but Hochmann seemed to lack the courage ofhis convictions and his work ultimately came to naught andhe died in sorrowful poverty. The work organized herein 1708, as has already been noticed, continued for twelveyears, or until 1720 ; when upon the death of the mild andfriendly Count, they were driven to Holland. But theyear 1720 is emphasized for sadness in addition to perse-cution and exile
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