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 213
after her baptism requested that areligious meeting be held in her presence at the house uponthe next Sabbath. This request was acceded to by Beissel.Upon the next Sabbath a large congregation assembled atPeter Bellers humble house, the meeting was opened atthe appointed time, and the young girl… … ERETOFORE we haveknown Conrad Beissel andMichael Wohlfarth merelyas two religions enthusi-asts, erratic and peculiar,—often, it may be said,visionary schemers; yet,with all their shortcom-ings and the delusions oftheir followers, it is a re-markable and strange factthat German printing inAmerica…
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