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 67
rly days of the Prov-ince. How this journeyman baker in a small town in Ger-many,—ignorant, uneducated, poor, unknown and some-what inclined to dissipation,—in his twenty-fifth year,while working at his trade, was suddenly chosen by theunseen powers to forsake the bake-trough and become aleader… … Remains of the Community. 31 birth-place, at the head of a mystic community, strangelycombining in its teachings the occult philosophy of theMystics and Cabalists of the Middle Ages with the severelysimple Sabbatarian worship and tenets as set forth in theirprimitive Bible teachings. Of this mystic…
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