The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers (1899)
Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919 · Philadelphia : Printed for the author · leaf 194
ature was the introduc-tion of antiphonal or choral singing into the services of thesimple worship of the Brethren. Here was the inceptionof the music and hymnology which, fostered by ConradBeissel, proved in after years so important a feature in theEphrata Community as to attract the attention of… … Chrislian Confession of the Men)ionites. 129 But the chronicler naively adds : Of which tlie reader hasliberty to judge for himself. However, the hyninologyof both the Brethren and Sabbatarians dates from thismeeting and developed rapidly in the Western World,where it now numbers hundreds of hymns…
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