The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania : a Critical And Legendary History of the Ephrata Cloister And the Dunkers
The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania : a Critical And Legendary History of the Ephrata Cloister And the Dunkers
Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919
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S«chse» Phllmdelphim.) Digitized by Google CHAPTER XIX, THE UNITAS FRATRUM. the summer of 1736 other religious ele- appeared in Penn- ia in the form of a r party of evangel- do arrived in the ce in April. Chief them were the Rev. Spangenberg and David Nitchmann. ;heir arrival they at )ined with Christo- pncr Wiegner, Christopher Bans and George Bohnisch at the house of the former on the banks of the Skippack. These three brethren had been sent to America with the Schwenkfelders, September, 1734..., by Count Zinzendorf. These new arrivals had come to our shores as mission- aries with the avowed purpose of preaching the gospel of Christ to all persons, irrespective of color, race or condi- tion ; they were known as the Unitas Fratrum^ or United Brethren, — the Moravians of the present day. As soon as the arrival of Spangenberg and Nitchmann became known to Beissel, he sent three solitary brethren to Wiegner's on the Skippack to extend fraternal greetings to the newcomers, and invite them to visit the settlement on the Cocalico.
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