The German sectarians of Pennsylvania - a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers (1899) (14779240861)

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Title: The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919
Subjects: Ephrata Cloister Church of the Brethren Pennsylvania Dutch German Americans Printing
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed for the author
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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Wiegners with the purpose of making a proposal to PeterBohler and to engage the brethren who had accompaniedhim from Georgia to do the carpenter work for him. Acontract was entered into between the two parties and twohouses were commenced upon the land where Nazareth nowstands. One, a small wooden house, known as the FirstHouse, the other the fine stone mansion known as the Whitefield House. During the following winter Whitefield and Bohler hada controversy about some pecuniary matters, which endedby the former discharging the brethren, the large stonehouse being no farther advanced than the foimdations.Eventually, however, the whole property came into thepossession of the Moravians, who finished the large houseand there established the Nazareth economy. The Moravian party in the Province were reinforcedDecember 15, 1740, by the arrival of Bishop David Nitsch- * Whitefields Journal, London, 1761. Evidently one of the so-calledforest sermons. 426 Ttie German Scclarians of Pennsylvania,
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Anna Nitschmans Visit. 427 man, his uncle of the same name, also Christian Frohlich,and two sisters, Johanna S. Molther and Anna Nitschman.The headquarters of this party was established at Wiegners,and the Moravian diaries note many meetings held there atthat time. When the Brethren at Ephrata learned of theNitschman party, three of the Solitary brethren were at oncesent to Wiegners to welcome and greet them, as the Chroni-con states, because at that time the fire of first love wasstill burning. Early in March of the next year (1741) a larger partyof Solitary made a visit to Nazareth, and, as the diary notes, expressed admiration at the industry and contentment ofthe former in their indigent circumstances. A few months later, a return visit was projected by theMoravians to the Ephrata settlement. This was plannedwith two objects in view,—one relating to a possible unionof the two evangelical movements ; the other, to thoroughlyinvestigate the monastic feature of the Ephrata settleme