Encyclopedia of Genealogy And Biography of the State of Pennsylvania With a Comp
Encyclopedia of Genealogy And Biography of the State of Pennsylvania With a Comp
Frank D Andrews
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For the real \'alue it has had for him, as well as for sake of the incident narrated. Christopher Sower set up a printing press at Germantown, from which was issueil. In 1739. The first German newspaper ])rinted in the colonies. From the same press came (. So says i\Ir. Bru. Mbaught. The historian of the German Baptist Brethren), "the first Bible in a Euro- pean tongue published in America : here txA'o-thirds of all the German books published in the colonial period were printed: and frDUi here,... through a religious journal, distributed free, some of the best thought of the time went forth. Here also was organized the first Sunday school in the world, forty years before l-tobert Raikes: in this school. 27-2 COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY AND GENEALOGY cards were used with scriptural texts, wliicii later came into universal use. " It is pitiful to note that the leader in these pious enterprises (Sower) Ijecame the \ictiin of ignorance and persecution, even in America— his large printing establishment was destroyed, his property was confiscated, and he died in poverty.
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