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 268
ly bymanual labor. At the same time he hewed the necessarytimber to build a cabin. He completed this habitationduring the summer months. His time henceforth wasdivided between cultivating his garden and the wooing ofthe celestial Sophia, passing his hours alternately in studyand labor, and living… … An Ideal Hermit. Prelude to the New World. 185 O blessed solitary life,Where all creation silence keeps!Who thus himself to God can yieldThat he neer from him strays,Hath to the highest goal attained,And can without vexation live.Faith, toleration, love and hope.These all have come to his support.…
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