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 492
ttel.This consisted of a piece of paper orparchment upon which was drawn theshield of David; that is, a figure formedof two equilateral triangles, interlacedin such a manner as to give sevenangles, in each of which was written,in either Hebrew or Latin characters,the four mystic letters A, G, L, A,… … 376 The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania. chalk or charcoal, upon such buildings as were threatenedbut had not yet ignited. According to an old tradition itwas by this means that the two mills of the Ephrata con-gregation were saved at the time of the incendiary fire in1747. To still the fire in…
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