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 337
ment of Zion by the Brotherhood. The widowers andwidows who lived in the convent Kedar, which belongedto the Sisterhood, now moved into Zion, and the brethrentemporarily took their place. This act virtually marksthe disbandment of the Zionitic Brotherhood, which culmi-nated on October 22, 1745,… … THE ECKERLIN BELL. The Eckerlm Bell. 257 same year, when the Brotherhood sold the large tower clockand bells to the Reformed and L,utheran churches in Lan-caster. The largest of these bells was cast in England tothe order of Onesimus (Israel Eckerlin), at a cost of eightypounds sterling. It bore…
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