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The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania

The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania

Kuhns, Oscar

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AnthropologyGeneral United States

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ISBN10: 1150495332
ISBN13: 9781150495335
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...or pamphlets, largely of a polemical character. Thus the first German book published in Pennsylvania was Conrad Beissel's Buchlein vom Sabbath,12 a PublIshed by Andrew Bradford in 1728. See Seidensticker, The First Century of German Printing in America. which, in the words of the Chronicon Ephratense, led to the public adoption of the seventh day for divine service. The next year George Michael Weiss published through Bradford a polemic against the New-Born, a sect of sanctificationists which, under the leadership of Matthias Bauman, deeply stirred the Germans of Montgomery County. These books began the long series of theological literature in Pennsylvania which, receiving a new and strong impulse through the coming of Zinzendorf, has in one form or another, by Dunkard, Mennonite, Lutheran, or Reformed, come down to our own day. Original composition in verse at that time was chiefly in the form of hymns,13 of which a considerable number were written. Most of the brethren of the Ephrata Community turned their hand to this kind of poetry, the most voluminous being Beissel himself. As early as 1730, Benjamin Franklin published a book entitled Gottliche Liebes-und Lobesgethone, containing 62 hymns, 31 by Beissel and the rest by his associates; while in 1739 Christopher Sauer published a large hymn-book entitled Zionitischer 11 This is likewise true of Germany at this time. What Scherer says of the hymns in that country applies equally well to early German-American hymnology. (See Scherer, Ge- schichte der deutschen Litteratur, p. 340 ff.) Weyrauchshugel, containing 654 hymns in 33 divisions, Each inscribed with a heading as fantastical as the general title. 14 The poetical talent of...

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