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LANCASTER,
PA.,
NOVEMBER
Vol.
XXV.
13,
19H
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H.i^5"
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ipubUcatfon Committee
JULIUS
F.
SACHSE, LITT.D.
B.
BUCKEKHAM, M.D.
Copyrighted
19x7
BY
PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTER, PA.
UNIVERSITY
OF
PENNSYLVANIA
LIBRARIES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Contents
Minutes
of the
Meeting
at
Lancaster
....
Report
of Secretary, Prof.
George T. Ettinger
Report
of Treasurer, J. E.
Burnett Buckenham
Death
of Col.
Thomas
C.
7 7
6
_
Zimmerman
^
10
President's Address
ic
Report
26
of
Committee on Bibliography
Election of Officers
28
Ipennsplbania
The
Members
German Influence
in
....
its
Settle-
XXVII.
The Diarium
of
Magister Johannes
Kelplus.
Zi"i^-..
33
1914-1915.
President :
27,
Litt.D.,
LL.D.
191 5.)
William
F.
(Died August
25,
1915.)
Albert K. Hostetter.
Secretary
Treasurer :
J.
E.
Executive Committee:
Terms Expire
191 5.
Naaman
Benjamin
F.
Fackenthal,
Jr.,
Sc.D.
Theodore
E.
191 8.
Nathan
Terms Expire
1919.
Julius
F. Sachse, Litt.D.
Charles
R. Roberts, Esq.
,^i(anili;;;>Wi(l^''S'.**BSti?w
Pennsylvania-German Society
AT
ITS
in
On
-TtHE first
^^ ing of
Friday,
November
session of the
13,
Pa.,
1914.
was
called
First
of the Society.
duly
last
The
the Secretary,
I*
In full.
The Pennsylvania-German
Society.
Mr. President and Fellow-members of the PennsylvaniaGerman Society: The Secretary is very happy to be able to
report to you in annual meeting assembled that, during
now drawing
the year
tained
main-
its
work
for which
it
was established by
In
its
all
phases of
and
ideals
its
aims and
its efforts,
ings
was
fore
its
Committee for
and referred
The
As
final revision
of the
The
19 1 5.
mends
Executive
in
ness of illustration
the
the
book
same
is
series.
it
may
number of members
are in
mind
the
It
Edward Welles,
Hon. James A.
Beaver,
ex-Governor of Pennsylvania,
The Pennsylvania-German
Society.
Thomas
Col.
Zimmerman, of Reading,
C.
Its
usefulness.
am
our organization
may
thus achieve
greater triumphs.
still
accomplish
still
Committee
mittee.
may
suit
new
the Executive
consti-
Com-,
iKfliMS.^IIm^'^Milt&MitmiS^it^-
Treasurer's
Annual
Treasurer's
Dr.
J.
Annual Report.
Report.
fol-
lowing:
Repo^'^ of the Treasurer of the PennsylvaniaG-..vMAN Society from October 31, 1913, to
November
12, 19 14.
Dr.
To
To
To
To
Treasurer
interest
$1,981.99
$1,089.00
40.00
235.00
publications sold
1,364.00
$3,345.99
Cr.
2.00
33'88
Clerical services
Rent
2.00
Volume XXII
Photogravure
plates,
Photographs,
W.
Proceedings
of
Gilbo
& Co
810.29
28.75
H. Rau
4.00
Co.
30.33
Books, postage
5.00
New
Era Co
id sundries, J. F. Sachse
35'9i
49.66
17.06
74'30
57-13
XXII
Cash on hand
98.75
9.84
$1,258.90
2,087.09
$3,345.99
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10
Society.
Assets.
Two
&
$500 bonds E.
Balance
in Life
Fund
Co
P.
$1,000.00
130.00
Burnett Buckenham,
E.
Treasurer.
Auditors' Report,
In connection with the Treasurer's Report was also presented the following report of the Auditors:
To the Pennsylvania-German
Society:
the President of
November
12, 19 14, Inclusive, report that they have examined the said report and the accounts of the Treasurer
for said period, and find them correct both as to Items of
charge and discharge, principal and Income, contained
therein.
Ulysses
Koons,
Alfred Percival Smith,
Geo. Lewis Plitt,
S.
Auditing Committee.
Death of
At
this
Col.
Thomas
C.
Zimmerman.
Thomas
In the
C.
Zimmerman, whose
funeral
Death of
Col.
Thomas
Zimmerman.
C.
ii
In accordance with a
formal resolution the Executive Committee later appointed
Messrs. Nead and Fegley who reported the subjoined
Mr. Zimmerman
entered the
office
After
Philadelphia Inquirer,
he entered the
Reading as
office
of
a journey-
1859, he engaged as a
printer on the state laws in the establishment of Dr. Robert
Gibbs, at Columbia, South Carolina. The following year
Mr. Knabb,
shortly after
was elected
post-
Mr. Zimmerman then became associated as coMr. Knabb in the publication of the Berks
proprietor with
in '69,
absorbed
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12
Society.
Dispatch.
Zimmerman
What
merman
and proprietor of
ternity of
was one
Thomas C. Zimmerman the newspaper fralost a valued friend, who for many years
Reading has
of
its
his impress
for
order.
His
literary genius
many
made
was
life
of a high
choice expressions
man
versatile writer, he
in
ing fame, while his skill in the rendition of English poems into the
Pennsylvania
was an
equally meritorious.
worker
He
in behalf of perpetuating
German
presidents.
So-
As
Chosen
duties
best
known by
by a large
circle of friends
ability
his
and
warm
His departure
and acquaintances.
fidelity.
man
sincerely
*
After
mourned
life's fitful
Death of
fever, he sleeps well,'
it
can be
Col.
Thomas
and of
C.
Zimmerman.
this earth
"So
fades a
As a
Very early
translating,
and he made
He
classics Into
had
Man.
his reading,
his translations
German
o'er;
in life
the
from
13
Many
from
time.
One
Zimmerman by
his translations of
Pennsylvania German.
Among
English
the
first
classics
into
of these
was
He
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Society.
Public Activities.
trustee of the
board
He
was a director
Free
Public
Library; he was a member of
of the Reading
the National Conference of Chanties and Corrections;
of the State
tauqua Association,
As
one of his
Life; a
Interesting
and
prolific;
latest
Camp
hanna," published
He
was
cation of the
McKInley monument
Muhlenberg College
In
1904.
Zimmerman had
War
of the Rebellion.
He
was
member
of
Com-
Zimmerman was happy In the choice of his vocawhich he enjoyed to the fullest, and his home life was
Col.
tion,
Annual Address.
President's
He
ideal.
ing,
on the
was married
nth
to
iS
of June, 1867.
Zimmerman took
He
19 14.
150 N. Fifth
critical.
ill
He
Street,
died
Monday, November
9,
19 14.
His zeal in forwarding the Interests and his love for the
work of the Pennsylvania-German Society were notable.
We
and
So
it is
Memorial
President's
The
Annual
Address.
JTT
is
It
was
in
November,
1890, when the late Dr. W. H. Egle, the State Librarian at Harrisburg, consulted with me, at a meeting of
the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia,
upon
from the descendants of the early German and Swiss emigrants to Pennsylvania upon the same lines as the lately
formed Society of the Sons of the Revolution, from which
so many Pennsylvania-Germans were debarred, as it was
The Pennsylvania-German
i6
their ancestors
to feed
Society.
triot
The outcome
appeared
in the
This resulted in a correspondence upon the subject between Dr. W. H. Egle and one of the editors of the Nezv
Era, at Lancaster. The result was that Dr. Egle came
on February 14, 1891, and in the editorial
rooms of the New Era, met Rev. John S. Stahr, Rev. Max
Hark, Professor Buehrle, E. O. Lyte and F. R. Diffenderffer, who had been invited to meet him.
After a full and free discussion of the whole question,
it was decided to invite a number of representative men in
to Lancaster
the
German
Hark
at the
city
in the
study of Rev. J.
Max
Moravian parsonage.
represented by sixteen
bine.
Annual Address.
President's
17
de
of April,
When
ter
was
89 1.
called to order
it
Hess.
Hiram Young.
Lebanon County L. L. Grumbine, S.
Theodore E. Schmauk, Grant Weldman.
Chester County Julius F. Sachse.
Benjamin Whitman.
Erie County
Cumberland County C. P. Humrich.
Benjamin M. Nead.
Franklin County
York County
P.
Heilman,
The Pennsylvania-German
i8
Society.
Daniel
Carbon CountyE. H. Rauch.
K. Levan.
Luzerne County
Centre CountyJames A. Beaver.
Washington County Boyd Crumrine.
County W. Pennypacker.
Adams County
Eberly.
F.
Philadelphia
At
S.
meeting the status of the Society and its memwas finally determined, and the constitution
this
bership
adopted.
This document
press
upon
all
sets forth
present,
who
organization
with no
(and
I especially
are not
is
wish to im-
strictly a
Native American
entanglements with
any foreign
power.
fields,
who were
incited to
fury by the
French and English, and later fought for the independence of their adopted country, and were important factors
in establishing the American government under the present
constitution.
It must not be forgotten that it was Frederick Augustus
Muhlenberg, a Pennsylvania-German, who was the first
speaker of the United States House of Representatives,
and that of the two Pennsylvanians in the Hall of Fame,
in the Capitol at Washington, one. Major General Peter
Muhlenberg, is of Pennsylvania origin; some of whose de-
scendants are
Many
members
at present.
back
19
them a Christian
shown by the records of Bethlehem and Ephrata
in Pennsylvania.
Then again it was these very German
settlers and their children, who clothed and fed the Amerito health, or if they died giving
burial, as
The German
surged to
Army, whenever
is
this vicinity.
in
Pennsylvania
their due."
them
their
more
ag-
historic page.
It
is
Society
controvert
the
community
slanders
it
in its
so
ruthlessly
made
at large.
It
is
summer meet-
The
The Pennsylvania-German
20
year contains a
list
of
members with
Society.
short biographical
first
This volume
The
II,
1893.
was held
at
York, October
G. Morris, president of the Maryland Historical Society and who was the son of a Revo-
J.
In
banquet
The
in the
fifth
evening.
of Bethlehem, October
6,
city
1895.
Up
more or
at Philadelphia,
Octo-
and critical history of the German Influence in the settlement and development of the great commonwealth of
Pennsylvania upon the same lines as Justin Winsor's critical History of North America.
t
\
It
21
former
Stille,
who
scholar,
soil
said:
"Of
all
of Pennsylvania, the
German form
a very
important
What
rant
'^f
Mu^h
can a
man know
of that civilization
who
is
igno-
that
is
knowledge.
SJiCh
It
is
German
this lacking
itself;
no other
equal to these 25
German
This
Society.
series of
number of
man
our Proceedings
is
to be found in a
cities,
upon Pennsylvania-Ger-
history.
number of
written, for
members of
this Society.
work were
Commonwealth.
to
England
in
1709, by Frank
The Pennsylvania-German
22
157
Reid Diffenderffer
Society.
'
many
illus-
trations in text.
in
Volume VII
found Pennsylvania German Historical Students in P'^nnsylvania, 23 chapters in addition to the two named havi,
been published
each one a complete volume by itself; a
number of these books are already out of print. We will
give here a short resume of the titles: Any one who wants
a complete itemized
the descriptive
list,
list
of our publications
lately issued
is
referred to
J.
Part
Part
Part
Part
Part
3:
W.
Pennypacker.
Life
1775, Part
2,
of
the
Pennsylvania-German
Diffenderffer.
German
Part
Annual Address.
President's
Part
1 1
The Music
23
F. Sachse, Litt.D.
Pennsylvania,
in
by H.
W.
Kriebel.
German
Archives, by
Part 15
Sachse, Litt.D.
H. M. M.
Richards.
Historical Sketch, by
in
the
Revolutionary
War, by H. M. M. Richards.
Diary of a Voyage from Rotterdam
delphia
in
to Phila-
Part 20
Part 2 1
Part 22
Miller.
Part 23
Rev.
Part 24:
The Wayside
by
Part 25
in
New
Hanover, by
J. J. Kline.
J. F. Sachse.
The Pennsylvania-German
Maryland, by D.
W.
In the Settlement of
Nead.
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24
a
number of
number of other
Society.
history.
three,
ter
Harrisburg
three,
viz.
Lancas-
Among
the following
vania-German Society
list
will be
geon, one
U.
S.
George
Rev. George Heckman.
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker.
Frank R.
1897 Rev. Theodore E. Schmauk.
1898 Rev. Nathan
Parthemore.
1899 E. W.
1900 Rev.
1901 Rev. Thomas Conrad Porter
90
Charles H. HImes.
1902 Rev. Joseph Henry Dubbs.
1903 Rev. Joseph A.
1904 Rev. John
F. Baer.
1893
1894
1895
1896
C.
DIffenderffer.
C. Schaeffer.
S.
F. J. F. Schantz.
(died In office).
Prof.
Selss.
S. Stahr.
Annual Address.
President's
25
Hon. James A.
Hon. Gustav A.
Benjamin M. Nead.
Hon. John Wanamaker.
Thomas Zimmerman.
10John E.
191 Rev. H. E.
H. M. M.
Benjamin
14
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
Beaver.
Endlich.
Col.
C.
Roller.
19
Jacobs.
19 1 2
Lieut.
Richards.
19 13
F. Fackenthal.
^Julius F. Sachse.
19
Surely a
list
proud.
Of
may
well be
one, Rev.
still
Thomas Conrad
alive; ten
office.
The membership
members.
It
state alone, as
setts to
is
is
Oregon
grown
to
upwards of 500
in
From Massachu-
from Canada
in the north,
South Arnerica.
to
wear the
rosette
and
insignia
The term
of office of the President for the year 19 1314 expires to-day, who is the only member of the organization who has served continuously as an officer of this So-
It is
as Treas-
In his
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26
Society.
term will come the Silver Jubilee of the Society, and the
retiring officer feels sure that the Society under his leadership will flourish under his administration.
me
during
the past twenty-four years, I can but express the hope and
who
itary Society.
The Committee on
Dr.
S.
Bibliography, through
its
Chairman,
To The Pennsylvania-German
Society
made
since
has been
its first
made on
little
progress
our
and extended report made to the Society at its annual
meeting held in the city of Harrisburg, October 20, 1911,
at which time manuscript matter pertaining to said Index
to the extent of about 400 pages was submitted along with
the report made by our Committee at that time.
This want of progress was, or Is, due to two reasons,
this large
since
first
27
Index along
up
his resi-
project, that he
pedition,
and
is
is
this
annual meeting
planned but now enlarged and improved, will be fully completed, and be ready to be submitted to your Executive
Committee, in view of all of which we respectfully ask for
Committee.
reiterate our abiding confidence in
the inestimable value that is to accrue to your Society in
the acquisition and possession of an Index of Pennsylvania-
a continuance of our
We
also
German
and again
and accurate
complete
mitted
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28
work required
as to this
Society.
its
to study
com-
fully
mem-
and peruse
Respectfully submitted,
S.
Heilman,
P.
Chairman.
Lebanon,
Pa.,
November
13, 1914.
Election of Officers.
The
tive
dent,
caster,
Pa.;
Vice-Presidents,
M.D., of Chestnut
Hill,
William
Pa.,
J.
Litt.D., of
Lan-
Muhlenberg,
F.
of Philadelphia, Pa.
On
to cast the
The
them
then
adjourned
till
half-past
two
William U. Hensel,
at the
DEC.
4,
1851
Election of Officers.
29
Luncheon.
The
German
rathskeller of the
Society.
corn-stalks,
The
rustic
decorations,
consisting of
County rural
life,
contributed not a
little
enjoyment
to the
Menu.
'-
Scrapple
Sauer Kraut
Schnitz and Knepf
Red
Souse
Beets
Dutch Cheese
Smear Case and Apple Butter
Cider
Coffee
had
All
present united in the sincere hope and prayer that he might
speedily be restored to his usual full measure of health
and strength.
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30
Afternoon
Session.
of
at the
in the lecture
Society.
listened to a
Pennsylvania
The
ex-
first
Vice-
one of the
finest
collections of
of the evening.
A goodly company of
ladies
Hamilton Club.
Afternoon Session.
31
Noodle Soup
Roast Lancaster Turkey and Cranberries
Mashed
Potatoes
Dried Corn
Beets
Cole Slaw
Fried Oysters and Celery Salad
Mince Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Dutch Head Cheese
Ice
Cream
Cakes
Coffee
as toastmaster
ter,
entertained the
company with
memory of
Thus ended
the
Col.
Thomas
C.
Zimmerman.
programme
instructive
of praise.
(5erman Societie
Hon. George
F.
Baer, LL.D.
S.
Shimmell, Ph.D.
Thomas William
Saeger.
William Weis.
Col.
Thomas
C.
Zimmerman, L.H.D.
Committee.]
BS
GEORGE
B.
SEPT.
F.
26, 1842;
BAER, LL.D.
D.
APRIL
26, 1914.
1893.
Hon. George
Hon. George
F. Baer,
35
LL.D.
Somerset Institute
until the
two years.
Then he
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36
Society.
more
class
His course
at college
and complete
his course.
May
26,
Captain
1863, and
returned to Somerset.
He was
37
also largely
Reading Paper Mills, the Penn National Bank, the Reading Hospital, the Reading Trust
Company, Penn Common, the Wyomissing Club, the
Reading Free Library, and the Berkshire Club. As President of the Park Commission he was largely instrumental
in securing Penn Common from the county authorities as
Steel companies, the
He also
erected the
first
modern
rooms.
daiTghfer of John"'
The Pennsylvania-German
3S
Society,
sprang the following children: Marlon, the wife of William N. Appel; Helen, the wife of William Griscom Coxe;
Mary, the wife of Isaac Hiester; Emily, the widow of
Frank L. Connard; and Nellie, the wife of Heber L.
Smith.
of the family was the Second Reof
Reading.
Church
formed
Mr. Baer was one of the founders of the PennsylvaniaGerman Society and presided over the convention at which
the formal organization was effected.
The church-home
He
^^^
As we
survey the
life
and
was
a tireless worker,
predominant industry.
in his
own
He
F.-
itself
"Work is Worship." He attained disand success not through influence or favor, but
through his own indomitable will and strong belief in himself, supported by an industry that was well-nigh tireless.
Truly in his life, character and achievements George Frederick Baer personified the sterling qualities of his Pennsylvania-German ancestry, by the cultivation of which
known
addresses,
tinction
qualities
and
his nation.
B.
OCT.
21, 1837;
1905.
39
at
Mlllerstown, Perry-
May
I,
Mary Levan.
The Beavers came from
Alsace
In
Wayne
American Revolution. All the greatgrandJames Addams Beaver, George Beaver, Samuel
Gilbert, Isaac Addams, and Jacob Miller served in the
Revolutionary War.
William Addams, another ancestor,
came from England and laid out the town of Adamstown,
in the
fathers of
The Pennsylvania-German
when
in
Society.
On
tember
8,
and on Sep-
He
was shot
in the side at
Upon
his return
1865.
From 1870
to
1887 he served
as
Major-General of the
National Guard of Pennsylvania, was defeated for Governor of Pennsylvania by Robert E. Pattison in 1882, but
was
elected to succeed
him
in
of the Superior Court of his native state from 1896 till his
death, which occurred January 31, 19 14.
He was president of the board of trustees of Pennsylvania State College, a delegate to the
in
member
War
of the President's
Department
in
Com-
1898, and
burgh, in 19 10.
He
Laws
41
(LL.D.) from Hanover College, Indiana, Dickinson Coland the University of Edinburgh, Scot-
lege, Pennsylvania,
land.
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42
Society.
May, 1846.
vania, in
He
chant
As
in
87 1.
the patron of
ill
manly
sports,
and
was
to a degree a'ctiv
1893, 4 and
5,
2\.s
Mayor
arid"'
MAURICE
B.
MAY, 1846;
D.
C.
EBY.
APRIL
4,
1914.
43
life, as
daily,
he himself put
and make
it,
than
a blade of grass
before."
affairs.
He
of the Harrisburg
interested in munic-
interested in
He
was
it.
adviser
and
instructive
conversationalist
in
that
domain.
He
member
He
had
scores of friends.
disposition, large-heartedness,
endeared him to
all.
He
died, after
and hospitable
some period of
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44
Society.
William Laubach.
William Laubach, born in Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pa., February i8, 1833, was a son oF
Abraham Laubach (b. Nov. 19, i8o8-d. Sept. 15, 1890),whose father, Adam Laubach (b. Dec. 23, 1766), was a
son of John George Laubach (b. Nov. 11, 1723), and a
grandson of Christian Laubach, who was born in Germany, emigrated from the Palatinate In August, 1738,
and arrived in Philadelphia, September 16, 1738.
The mother of William Laubach was Lydia Beidel-
1857), a son of Samuel Beidelman (b. May 30, 1750d. April 16, 1836), whose father, Elias Beidelman (b.
Sept. 27, 1707-d. Oct. 25, 1781), was born in the Palatinate and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1730.
While
45
sand square
now
In 1908 the
feet.
founder of
the business were taken into the partnership and the firm
On Aug.
Mr. Laubach was prominent as a Mason, being a memLodge, No. 152, F. and A. M., Easton
Chapter, No. 173, R. A. M., Hugh De Payens Com-
-ber of Easton
Mr. Laubach was an active and influential member of the First Reformed Church of Easton.
He served as a member of the school board, as a director
in the Northampton National Bank and as a member of the
Easton Board of Trade. "He was always interested in
For
sixty years
and spiritual welfare of the comHis counsel was often sought and his opinions
were freely accepted, though he was deferential and never
advanced his personal ideas except in a modest and courteous way.
He was of inestimable service and held the
respect and in his latter days the veneration of this entire
section.
He was a liberal giver to the church and his
charity in this community was limited only by his good
trial,
educational, moral
munity.
judgment.'
Mr. Laubach
He
25, 1900.
G. T. E.
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46
Society.
Lewis
Slifer Shimmell,
i8oi-d. 1878).
John was a son of
Christian Shimmell (d. 1828) and a grandson of George
Oberholtzer
(b.
who
The mother
Shimmell,
died in 1800.
of Lewis S. Shimmell was
Mary
Slifer (b.
the greatgrandfather
Switzerland.
The
Wadsworth,
Normal
County, Pa.
In 1886, while superintendent of the schools of Hunt-
position he filled in a
a score of years.
many years.
"
47
work
in
and published three successful text-books, "The Pennsyl"A History of Pennsylvania," and "Our
Of " The Pennsylvania Citizen
State and Nation."
were
sold
copies
in less than ten years.
120,000
Dr. Shimmell joined the Pennsylvania-German Society
on November 7, 1907.
vania Citizen,"
He
died
March
9,
19 14.
G. T. E.
msMmimmi^mm
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48
Society.
He
Railroad Company.
At an
early age
M. Lloyd and
Company.
In 1867 he removed to Westmoreland County, PennIn 1871 he
Judge Jeremiah
M. Burrell, of Pennsylvania, afterwards United States
District Judge and Chief Justice of Kansas by appointment of President Franklin Pierce. He was a member of
the National Republican Convention in 1880, where he
was one of the memorable " 306," who followed the lead
of Roscoe Conkling in the effort to nominate General U.Mr. Huff was president of
S. Grant for the Presidency.
the Keystone Coal and Coke Company, one of the largest
sylvania, to
engage
In the
banking business.
late
was
in the
many
United
States.
49
He
He
was
from
composed of Westmoreland, Indiana, Armstrong and Jefferson Counties; was
chosen Congressman-at-Large from Pennsylvania to the
Fifty-fourth Congress; and was reelected to the Fiftyyears.
eighth Congress.
After a
life
He
was
Society
elected a
November
member of
i,
the Pennsylvania-German
1906.
mes^^sBBm
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50
Society.
George R. Oberholtzer.
The
we
him serving
the United
government as observer for the United States
Weather Bureau at Charlotte, North Carolina. Later we
find him at Erie, Pa., where he lost his life in an ice-boat
accident on February 8, 19 13.
Mr. Oberholtzer was elected to membership in the
Pennsylvania-German Society October^^^^^2
1903,
..
find
States
G. T. E.
51
Thomas W. Saeger.
The name
as
found
of
trians.
i" ^SS2)
in
is
in old records
in
Bern and
With
Anna Barbara,
family
in
born
in
this
country.
his wife,
terdam, Holland,
arrived in
in the ship
Philadelphia
mill
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52
had
eight children
Society.
Mary and
Rebecca.
Abigail married Chrisand Rebecca married Henry Weinsheimer, both
of which gentlemen became prominent in the Lutheran
Church and the mercantile life of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Wilham Saeger was born September 4, 1806, and later
in life became an extensive dealer in grain, a manufacturer
of lumber and proprietor of grist-mills.
From 1862 to
1883 he served as president of the Allentown National
Bank. In 1833 he married Hannah, daughter of Daniel
Gangewere (b. November 12, 1809 d. June 23, 1887),
with whom he had three sons: Alfred G., Jacob H., and
Thomas W. William Saeger died March 10, 1893.
Thomas W. Saeger, the subject of this sketch, was born
liam, Abigail,
tian Pretz
in
Allentown, Pa.,
November
30, 1843.
and
Academy, and was graduated in 1863, from
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa., where he heard
President Lincoln deliver the speech that has since become
earlier education in the public schools of his native city
the Allentown
Upon
graduation he ac-
went
to Duluth,
town for
Upon
in
the milling
business.
On
Allentown,
Pa.
He
died
November
in
19,
19 13.
Mr.
53
a Christian gentleman, cultured and refined, fond of literature, art and music. As
Muhlenberg College.
Mr. Saeger was elected to membership
vania-German Society January 15, 1897.
trustees of
in the
Pennsyl-
G. T. E.
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54
Society.
The
ancestors of Christian
Reiken or Recken
in
in
in
Philadelphia
1751.
May
Titzel,
German
Society
November
5,
1908.
G. T. E.
55
William Weis,
The
many,
ancestor of William
in
1852.
His grandfather on
Johann Weis, born April 18, 1794, died June 16, 1876,
was Burgomaster at Altsimonswald, Amt Waldkirch,
Baden, Germany, for forty years.
Burgomaster Weis
had a son named Andrew, born September 7, 1829, died
May 2, 1882, who was the father of the subject of this
brief sketch.
The mother of William Weis was PauHne
Buehrer, born January 20, 1835, a daughter of Francis
Xavier Buehrer, who was born in 1794, and, having been
a Revolutionist in Germany, came to America in 1848 at
the time that Franz Sigel and others were obliged to leave.
William Weis was born at Reading, Pa., on April 17,
1857, later became an apothecary in New York City,
where he resided at No. 213 West 34th Street. He died
April
I,
1912.
in
the
G. T. E.
vnnin:
THE GERMAN INFLUENCE
IN ITS
PREPARED BY AUTHORITY OF
PART XXVII
THE DIARIUM OF
M AGISTER JOHANNES KELPIUS
publication Committee.
JULIUS
F.
SACHSE, Utt.D.
JOHANNES KELPIUS.
FROM THE ORIGINAL CANVAS BV OR. CHRISTOPHER WITT, NOW
IN
XTbe 2)iatium
of
/Ifta^istec
S^obannes IRelpius
WITH ANNOTATIONS BY
LANCASTER,
1917
PA.
Copyrighted
BY THE
1917
ipennsslraniaeCetman Soctets.
PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTER, PA.
THE JOURNAL OF
KELPIUS.
man
Pietists
who came
to
will always
our early
German
Pennsylvania-
history; the
more
so
For a
full
The German
Pietists of Provincial
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6
themselves
hills
in
which winds
until
Society.
it
Its
mingles
crystal waters
forest dells
and valleys
now
known
romantic
and rugged
dells, valleys
hills is
as
its
now a part of
known far
and wide
as
Fairmount Park.
Unfortunately Kelpius,
written record of the great
in
his
modesty,
left
but
little
How
romantic Wissahlckon.
rude and
eastern Pennsylvania,
legends that
By reason of
is
may
devout
life,
inde-
broad humanity,
together with his repeated refusals of worldly honors and
civil power, that were at various times thrust upon him, the
pendent bearing, and,
it
be
said,
contend with,
both within and without the community, and that his position at the head of such a fraternity was anything but a
sinecure.
There were
The Journal of
Kelpius.
Cf the
at the
^ Mr
Joi
twte
cSi^^z'"^^
jKii/fLiter
yPltcA.'^tf ^ 9 JO
ny me /o
,
Wi^ mat
tkat
'J^^^Jh^
nun
If
/tune
mne
tReuiy/hci/!/f(e ti
trnf/iy/ha^fc
c/ fA/y^f,^/s
^^^
tfi
A/ner/cu
Jyay
Hymn
Book.
The Pennsylvania-German
Society,
occasion, stubborn
minds
to combat.
When
it
was
p
'--
ffiffy-
/'/
/} r^.-f^s'" ^-v^.
of February.
^
He
and
The Journal of
Kelpiiis.
from Seneca,
tation
CXtrii na^ru.
is
rumv
(A ubi CUfi^
finni
eyij
yri
Ofru. cJt
which
is
apparently a quo-
headed:
d tiote/t
Xhn^ah'ik. rn^%St^,
terrain trCnvO
a^r*tC4^nA.
n tnt^m
^ ^
fi ftvdhU, tKuicJ:\
Fac-Simile of Introduction.
"
" I cannot go
beyond
be banished outside of
Seneca De Refor."
my
country:
this.
My
it is
country
is
own: none
wherever
exile.
-trained
is
it is
The
first
exile,
well
for
if
one
is
wise he
is,
is
as
no one can
said, a
come
My
a traveller
he
if
my
into
country
is
foolish
an
mind gradually
it
may
He is delicate to whom
but he is strong to whom every single thing is
he is perfect to whom the world is exile."
his
country
his
is
sweet
country; indeed
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10
The
may
be called a
Society.
The Good
title,
694-1 703,
4, 5, 6, 7."
Kelpius.)
3.
31.
Name
(In the
January
N.
of Jesus)
A. D. 1694.
y J^k N
M *m y^
I I
M I "y
^^ L^
I,
going to America,
my
John
Seelig,
Ludwig Bidermann,^^
as well as about
many, had
On
February
of Silver,
which
cf.
"
German
For
vessel being
account of this
Pietists in Provincial
Pennsyl-
to
1-
Daniel Falckner.
13
Ludwig
Christian Biederman
was
the
first
the
widow
II
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12
Society.
.^9rr>
"X/^inu,
mvUt-eM^m
O^Tf
4-9**.
fnnn^u ^^t^i
e^0
/?i^ ieitium
-t^
^&/fs?nei
J-
i.
*^
^M^y '^::S^^^
TXyvru^rn
ate^ie^it/9-'
oM^,
^
j^*^
t^,-
^^"sshMa
nr*^
r^t^ia^ uftf^^i,-U'
The Journal of
Kelpius.
13
the ship on the 14th of this month, having embarked on the 13th,
This
first
day was
me
by
people,
(in this
H-8
J^
manner)
Thames
river,
by our
At
night-
G.
Germanis
(puellis,
German
deemed
(zelum
The lewdness might have
my
brought
(?)
de mots).
je
Maria
until
a spinster, lone
(solitaria,
an Ethiopian virgin,
in
who would
self
sented to marriage.
illness,
manner he
The
me
afflicted
slept alone.
second day
secunde
2nd
&
4.
But
destined fatal.
My
nate outcome.
sand-banks^'* by a contrary
these,
we
perished
sought safety
if
the third
was j^^
first
in
We were visited
Then we were
driven towards
wishing to escape
we
should have
woman)
the great
perforated
same had not the anchor been broken itself. Our anchor being
manner, we were at length borne upon the sand-banks
lost in this
by the whirl.
The
Captain having
vessel
to
at hand.
who were
We
furled the
was
(Pagf 2
ot 9^0.)
saw
16.
vr
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14
the
in
God,
certain aid of
my
my
held
Then
The
us."
"Have
matters.
He
pressed
everywhere, on
Him
my
(divinely)
for the
was not
shall I hope."
"
Said,
away from
we
praised
third time,
ignorant of divine
so
me
(No sooner had
The storm began to
alone can help
done
God
in safety.
Meanwhile
when
soon as
was admonished
my
began to collect
where
Coster, with
God (and
God
casting anchor,
and turned
God, who
faith in
for he
rejoiced,
pilot
was
as if
being admonished
was admonished
peace in turn.
when
distress,
him
midst of our
Society.
thoughts) as
and addressed
being sure his wish had been granted, though not knowing what
just
I
now was
went below,
glad tidings.
I told
announce the
to
just a little
no longer wondered
(their prayers
me
I
while
who began
to the pilot,
that I
Going below
for the
God.
with the
Praised be the
spirit. of
name
of
my
brethren,
to
I added, that
filled
I prayed,
went up on deck
when
was
2nd
Falkner,
The Journal
(^m
15
3 of si?s.)
The
who,
of Kelphis.
in
this
quietude,
persevered
in
indeed,
the
praises
of
God, our
^.,^^
i?- h
18.
19.
Preserver.
The
fifth day, which was of the sun (lis-solis?) the infant son
Henry Lorentz, died, aged 6 months, his remains were cast into
the sea (or, "he fell into the sea").
We were again visited by
the royal impress gang, who would have borne oS as their booty
of
won
over unto us the hearts of the soldiers; for Coster had pre-
By
was going
Thereafter
to
to
sail
we were
America with
us,
three
Belgian
sailors.
more
secure,
and
having cast
there,
On
we were
rocky and sandy ledges and on the right, leaving behind for ever
the shore of England.
About
Ludwig
of
we
to
Holland.
slept securely
At
night,
and soundly
The
and
8th day
rest, for,
(i.
e.
Downs
were going
to sail to
we were borne
where the
America with
us,
to a
were assembled.
[^
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i6
Society.
(l^affe 4 of Q^gi.)
(Period Second)
t
February
At
that port
(Downs) ^^ we awaited
for about 2
The
spiritual intercourse,
brawls and
fights,
one yielded to another, the matter might have come from words to
blows, as I have said
March
On March
the one that
was done
like
was
yet most
lost,
we
latter,
unto
when we
Scarcely had
were again
visited
we
we had
cast,
(set aright)
became interlocked
though
Loosed,
to the
We
saw
of
cannon of
we were
^5
"The Downs,"
1^
is
We
heard the
fate
would
much used by
we were
freed.
an excellent anchorage.
and
took a long
boom
it
time.
It is
the British
Navy.
munity.
'^'^
This was during the universal war then waged against Louis XIV of
In American history it is known as "King William's
France, 16819^1697.
War."
The Journal of
Oagf
On
field,
Kelpius.
17
5 Ot 9$0,)
the
"
Lamp
on Frenchurch
"
which
who
Deal,'-
received
me and my companion
Virgin
on
of Grermany,
we
March
8th,
They
in all events, in
calm or storm,
in peace or
9-
war.
read as follows:
and
fire
Gunn.
If I
my
foartop
and
weigh
fire
Light
sail
shrouds
in ye
main
are
to
" another.
(Pap
" If
"keep
6 ot
i
a Light abroad
" Schrouds,
18
^0,)
and
if
more than
my
constant light
in the
Main-
we
are forced to
It
has no harbor.
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HoU
" lye a
" abroad
" and
or under a Mizon,
two Lights
if
make
weighing
of equal height
sail in
Society.
more than
my
constant Light,
will
make
in the
if
we meet by
"schall lower his Fore-Top-Sail, and those the Levard schall an" swer by Lowering their Main-Top-Sail.
"
He
Three Lights
Night
schall fire
Guns
"
" ask what schip is that, and he that is heilet schall answer Adven" ture, than he that hailet first schall reply Rupert.
(Page 7
" If
ct Sl^0,)
my Mizon-Top-Mast-Schrouds,
'
in
'
ensign.
" If
Ensign
'
'
"
Majesty's Ship " Sandados Prize
'
March
Dated on Board
On
my
you have a desire to speak with my, you schall hoist your
in your Pain-Top-Mast-Schrouds.
'
"
ye 9,
you chance
Will Allen.
their
169^.
we were borne by a
Wight on the
On
10
we
unto
former place,
& now
safely
We,
right.
&
a citadel, con-
The Journal of
y.,/:v
^^'-
Kelpius.
19
->^ t>W.72i.^ft:<>^
'^
>
loiU#*KW?
i^:??'^"''"*^-'
vy^y"'^^
*i^
-t^ <^M
J?
'^
-T^"'*
''
vt^
*te**<fi^
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20
taming
as
as
Society.
namely 365.
(Page 8
of
fit^sf.)
PERIOD THIRD.
At
this place
we
satisfactorily, directing
April
de Wateville,
moreover other
Moerkamp &
18.8
we
letters to
others, chiefly at
Mons
Lauterbach,
London.
& Spanish
& gave up
floats
wait-
&
we
a.m.
But, lo!
clear,
when we had
which we
first
we were
driven
we
we were borne
During
along, as
it
were, blind-folded
&
lost
we had
& with
conveying
On
us, seemingly,
this day,
now
new world,
O ^
8 20. 5 the
superstitious crew expected a huge tempest, but an altogether indifferent sky permitted a prosperous course
under Lat. 49
^O
3'
33'.
At
so that that
was arrayed
against France.
The Journal of
On
this
Kelphis.
21
Hourly we
violently.
April
traversed 5 English miles, but our convoys were scattered all day 23.
long
&
&
sail,
officers.
At
main-mast
sea.
Hereafter,
On
gathered together.
able east-wind,
we
bade farewell,
was Nicholas
De
9',
The name
24.
our Spanish
Rudder.
PERIOD FOURTH.
Leaving,
therefore,
the
Spanish
3' to Lat.
43
vessels
58',
25-behind,
we were May
In longitude
we
trav-
sorely vexed us
(Page
2.8
10 ot 9^0,)
An
auspicious day.
north-wind drove us from our place. . -y
In
consequence
of
the
wind
4.
changing to west, we were tossed
^ay
about all night, being hurried along on the tempestuous gale. At . o
the 3rd night-watch it veered towards the north.
5. Weathering
4.5.
3.
fierce storms,
6.
iat
Under
last,
we
finally
on the
7th,
we
we
sailed
Dur-
we
we were unable
to ascertain
6.
0.
7.
T^
southward, until,
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22
stars appearing;
cheered
the
but a
little
Under
8.
sailors.
our
Society.
41
Lat.
22',
we
sailed
along
lost masts.
PERIOD FIFTH.
9-8
Our
10-
Scarcely had
one.
we
we
when
squalls
we
beheld
from
Some
homeward bound from Ameri-
But when,
can shores.
we
perceived,
they did not reply, but kept on approaching nearer and nearer,
In
this
we
we
erred not.
For they were French, & their largest vessel carried 22 cannon, the
2nd 10, & the smallest 6 cannon, & since they sailed with a favorMay able wind, they challenged us to battle. We, having made preparations for 3^ an hour, kept on the defensive only, & that so bravely,
(j9ag:t ll of 9^^,)
that the largest vessel took to flight.
Our companion vessel the
" Providence," seeing this, came up to us, already victors, to the
pursuit of the French vessels, which, now, all fled with every sail
expanded. And because the " Providence " was of superior speed,
she alone coped with the fleeing vessels, with such eagerness, as
though
we had
Sometimes, however,
wait for us
to
come up,
until, at last,
we
superfluous,
we
we began
to sing a
with but
little
damage
we
captured, one
man had
his
head torn
&
sustained?
off,
On
this
this
rest, yet,
we were
con-
deeming that
this battle of
&
With
Strange to say, in
hurt,.
to
&
our
we were
On
what
losses
at
The Journal of
divine Providence, worshipped
&
human
praised the
affairs
We
name
vessels
still
loomed
We
a quandary.
vi^ere in
But ".
God.
of
Again two
recollected, that
23
Kelpius.
at large,
also
& we
had heard our prisoners remark, that one of those carried 80 cannon,
&
the other
ourselves
(Page
course
&
was an armored
They however,
another encounter.
for
one.
their
altered
May
12 ot 9^gf.)
thus,
what seemed
to be
off,
&
we,
we were amused by
and
still
a fine spectacle,
when
vying, as
it
sight, just as
to three
Late
in the
had met,
sLx navigators
if
for
we were
first
sailing already
(Phosphoresship hove in
lastly,
our
space, since
The French
12. ij.
two
Concerning
fire,
morning another
vessels returning
from
we were
On
&
our captain,
quenching
?),
we ploughed
we slacked
to south,
who
(with which
made
mammon,
of private right
all
as
from (by)
had
sailors
at
sea-weed
wind veering
aside,
it
4-
<^
j^
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24
Society.
PERIOD SIXTH.
The
May
i6. 17.
8.
11
39
fifth
week
Antego, though
morn advanced,
first
&
London with
we
entrusted letters
On the
taken two cannon.
night winged our flight, but
i8th, east
wind
were unfurled on
We
&
we had
tarried,
we
bade
&
20.
the
21.
22.
we went
so
&
$ He Prophet, X
was Feter
who
22nd.
prophesied for
At
me x
But on
the 20th,
which hardly
strong,
this juncture,
recalled a
danger,
yet
23-
we
although having
in
America,
you would
at our companions,
~'~
i.
e.
23.
The
North-wind
also
all
&
other vessels,
should happily
snugly at Philadelphia,
seemed
to favor, but, as
when
^*y sought.
24.
behind
left
(^agj
14 0f fiJ^^O
seemed to
4-
vessel
late in the
sail by,
morning,
we
(Flying Dutchman?).
But on
the 26th,
ships...
The Journal of
unto them
London,
letters to
to
&
Kelphis.
25
&
bade farewell
Which
Notolybinn (?).
we
line, also,
now we were
the
31st,
borne south,
now
to
But on
north.
29.
fol-
28.
&
29.
in
3- 8
north, presently to
3'-
June
west.
but yesterday
(showers),
was
it
&
fish
medium
size
favored us.
was caught
as gold, spotted
(Page
we were
we had
rain-storms
^-
2.
cherished (comforted) by a
kept advancing us
steadily
we
to-day, however,
clear,
about eventide
huge parasite
wind
yesterday,
ist, just as
the
in
The same
June
with red.
15 of 9^^.)
(The
&
poop!)
(When
our
dolphin
filled
crew erred
To-day an uninterrupted & brisk north-east wind
drove us directly away from a ship we should otherwise have met.
WTiether the latter were friend or foe, we could not tell. Neverthein the
name.
3.
3.
less they seemed to entertain some fear & sailed back, whence they
had come. 4. Under lat. 38 lo' we had favorable north-east,
"
where with
ing 5th
we
&
full sail,
we
east,
36
53',
nor should
we
we
&
8. &: 9.
The same
driven north-east-ward,
5.
^...-
augured,
4.
lat.
&
we were
^"
f
7. 8. 9.
K^^
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26
Society.
,0
10.
But
yet,
&
wind
until,
of 9^^.)
(^ast 16
June
at last, north-east
II.
"|l
'''
for,
From
afar
we
descried
we
noon,
Ninth Week
'3
lA
ing,
&
IS- 16
we
traversed
40
&
Maryland, we went
to the lord-protectors
&
region) to inform them of the why
royal deputies (procurators
the
of
tasted
Having
world.
wherefore of our coming to the new
the shore, we purwhich grew in great abundance along
fruits,
that
(Erphorti-
Tenth Week
In
the
(literally
Castle; 23
tenth
week.19.
we
to Philadelphia,
all
went ashore
(earth")
&
5-
finally 24.
22.
to
(disembarked),
Went
to
New
Germantown.
The Journal of
German
1.
letter to
Kelpiiis.
27
in
London,
To
3.
Postscript to above by
4.
Missive to
the same
cember
May
17-20
12,
Johann Selig^
Mr. Steven Momfort^ in Long
II, 1699, in
21-34
35-40
De-
Island,
Pietists
Germany {English)
in
41-47
5.
6.
To Maria
Lutheran Church
ish
her
at Christiana
letter, in
To
8.
To
I,
my
{German)
48-60
{Latin)
61-83
Helmstad July
in
84-88
{German)
Of
9.
ren,
3
89-91
(2)
The
Fruitfull
&
( i )
The Bar-
in
Europe.
to
^Stephen Mumford
(born
16391;
died July,
1701)
German
Pietists," pp.
136
et seq.
Also
"
Seventh
Day
is
in
accredited with
America.
Baptists in
Cf.
Europe
in Virginia.
The
J.
at
There are no records known that any Germans were in Virginia at that
early day, yet some of the early records in the Halle orphanage seem to
indicate their presence.
9
tutor of
Johannes Kelpius.
in
the
University of Altdorf,
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28
mer^" in
Long
May
25, 1706,
Society.
To
Hester Pal-
91-101
Hester Palmer in
Flushing,
Long
Island.
Identity
not
established.
I.
24}^,
1697.
.OUR
herself
The
an echo
had meant
Call to
in
us.
We
from and
with
we
just as
at
Hence
it
the letters Y. L.
place.
We
is
not
my
is
sealed in
its
only long for the revelation in and from out the heart
it.
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30
us,
same
Society.
and
battle,
thy rela-
all
no strange trumpet of
sufiEer
We
he,
The Lord
depart.
which
this desire, in
whom we
love but
little,
hoping waiting,
we
received
P.
S.
ardent
Most worthy
my
brother,
becometh
spirit
Kelpius.
the
more
our
Therefore
the Father's
kiss
For
had
verily!
led
me
remained
into
in
this
London
and they
tinue the
work
vigorously.
the furnace
and
and
of affliction in
to prove
me, and
now
I
I
knew not
it
to purify
somewhat
I see
it,
that
survive, as I hope,
and
He
Mecken
regards to
grow with
hope, and
&
Clerk,
if
we
shall speak
they
it
in unrest.
is
still
but for a
little
best
while, as I
was
man
The Journal of
am
in
us and,
Kelptus.
31
our
We
the coldness of
is
loss has
Now
awaken
us
where
how much
when the
we
how
But
the
all
lacked in spite of
to
humble
end.
An
to
Amen.
II.
Same,
May
I2*^ 1699.
(Delivered).
which, at
this
tribulation, of
Faithful brother and fellow of the
and longing waiting for
patient
in
hope
that
partake
time, all
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
the glorious appearance of our Lord
HEAR with
special joy,
in
your
last let-
you
children of
my
tion in
God
for
many
Just as I have
made men-
but
you, of similar experiences of ours,
such as the Lord from the
first letter to
especially of
centuries.
for
hour uniteth more firmly; but, afterwards,
water
the
that
such,
is
experience
upwards of a whole year, my
my soul, as you say of yourself,
hath not only often encompassed
of
deepest and bottomless slough
but I have even sunk in the
compose
did
state,
beginning of that
despond. So you, too, at the
Falkner, so that I must conthrough
me
to
sent
a lay of woe,
earth, nor
body of Christ is now suffering on
beginning to
this
do
understand
as extendeth
it
this to
such
be an ordinary suffering, but rather
from Gethsemane
of death,
one
is
on
still
behind,
to
when
.branch!
The
no common
Herod, or mystic imagma-
32
I say,
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tion
am
of Kelp'ms.
not speaking)
33
tially,
is
all
time, and
where, essen-
real,
much
of
many
in
the worthi-
etc.,
and have,
in part,
The words
faith
of Partus
(Plato
is
much
less,
?)
in this life
is
to others,
in a deterior altitude.
my
which
rection.
less availeth
and
it
many
many
a great fall, of
which
who
in
England
as
by these
(see
that
that
cast
them down,
hasteneth not.
He
He would
He
that believeth,
as-
suredly,
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34
at the
same time,
Society.
and Christ sayeth " The first shall be last, and the last shall
But if any one is of the opinion (I still call it an
be first."
opinion) although he that thinketh so, regardeth it as his own
opinion, that is, he or she, or he and she at the same time, the
least,
become God-bearing.
Now
then, in the
finish this
work
name
so long desired, to
we may
Thomas
to present to
my
bliss
call
if I
it
them
and
step forth
and
joy, as well as to
in another opinion.
continue as an unbelieving
However much
tion of office,
speaking of Z.^
however
silent they
all
were concerning
she stepped forth not with pen and ink, but in strength and might,
which no foe could withstand, there you see how very much such a
biga of eternal grace, even for our times and longer yet (availeth?),
but this excessive boasting hereof in the streets of Babylon is some-
what
suspicious to me.
The
cry:
will
come
In a word, the
Z = possibly
affair
an astrological character.
we
have revelation
The Journal of
Kelpitis.
upon a
much
not do,
this will
if
many have
as
must be
it
perhaps not be so
two
disciples that
strate
called a figure;
now,
How
still
happen even
such through
in
may know
it
unto
whom we
can re-monstrate
As
down
so
whom
it
come to a bursting
and permit
tie
it,
forth.
inas-
it
that they
spirit of
we may
much mistaken in the application, as were the
journeyed to Emmaus, though we cannot demon-
was hoped,
it
comprehend the
whom
35
its
o fly
it
upward, and
to
Dearest brother!
salt
dejected in
mind
swim
in
my
this
element, as I
as,
doubtless,
see,
how some by
to bind
you would
am
am
gifts
glide
But,
my
faithful heart,
bland
loth to
I consider the
oil
be perhaps
sufficiently,
when
may
fain choose
with
oil
in spirit
liberty,
would rather see you with Samson turning the mill-stone of ex-^
terior hard work (as we have done and at times still do, rather
I
than see you basking in the lap of your beloved spiritual Delilah.)
I dearly love F.
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36
often strengthened
we may
me and
me
raised
Society.
from my heart,
know, how those
So
I also
powerfully
I
edified, after
hope,
the
paltry and
am so fain
we might be
to see, that,
being rid of
all teachers
and martinets,
taught, en-
lightened and inspired and directly united with the head, the only
high priest of our salvation, which, of course, cannot and will not
be accomplished without previous dearth, discipline, temptation,
cross (or
whatever
we may
final
call
it,
as previously indicated
through us
all,
by me),
because
we
all
from and
He, Jesus of
in,
whom
the life
this
unknown
to
we
see
so
is
not
many and
if
it
if
we
and
and
if
we became
faithless or
it;
we
recognize, in-
and passionate devotions have done, soaring perhaps too high, and
then being humiliated, they took heed, as then the danger
so great, as
when we
is
truly
in spirit desert
our most true and loving Jesus for the sake of others (though
The Journal of
Kelpius.
37
before,
sary
But
to
Schaeffer:
we
vania,' so
as
He
hence
from
*
:
otherwise do not
'
He would
in Halle,
is
Mr. Lange
Koester
we
here).
as
Mr.
we
as
of,
greater danger on
in
assistance,
approve
matter
this
Ye
Hungary,
(of
if
err not)
is
thinking
said
but
of,
Falkner
to
all fiery
&
'
hath upon her tongue both the sharp law and the gentle grace,
Prov.
3. 16, so
and through
others,
we
all things, as
we have
and comforted
in all things
If
find
am
as I
in
certain,
coming
is
my
different principle
who from
hence ran back again, hoping to teach the world or even the
For,
how you
we
as-
dear
hither, as
some
already see in
spirit,
and
saints.
I
have
would be more agreeable to you, than if I had placed before you mere peace. Compare
the signs of the times with each other (whereof you have made
mention in your letter) and you will easily, with Amos, be able to
make a resolution to hide yourself, which you, according to our
been thinking of
this before,
hoping the
salt
woxild rain
any thing
in
your
manna
would
be-
letter to justify
engagement entirely).
We
3
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7
or
among our
places,
different
Society.
acquaintances and
bread in quietude;
his
if
friends,
he had only
God
permit
and
fix his
come
to
purpose.
many
to rest
But
and
his heart
us, if
in love, as
left the
But when
thought he would.
to rest, the
we
among
for he himself
on the contrary, he
which he
brought
without method
is
desirous of converting
is
many impede
their
own
progress in various
manners, and cannot enter into their rest because of mere unstanding so firmly upon themselves.
belief,
human way
that our
could be a
God
wrong way,
us all!
do, do
not.
it
lions,
nor of the bears, nor of serpents, nor any animal, but step upon
their necks in the power of God, believing that they can harm no
one but him that
is
afeard of them.
Now,
if
to come hither, do not wait for Fox, but come in thy strength
which the Lord will give you, lest Alva, that is, the talk
I seek
of an infidel move you and untoward thoughts seduce you.
have
your
not
I
would
all
the
world
not to persuade you, and for
alone.
God
but
upon
on
anyone
faith founded on me, nor
and
faith
Do
not
make
too
much
all
would
little,
as
though this place were not more comfortable for your circumstances, to hide
in a
you
in
your
to pass,
we
shall,
is,
exile,
than London
is
in child-like simplicity.
The Journal of
many
cerning
how
we mourn
greatly
we have
than
things,
concerning Catharina B.
Kelphis.
whereof
v. B.,
39
this, is ineffable, so
would break I would rather have imagined, the sun would be illumined by the moon, than that this would-be (as Maxan called
him after his death, in consequence of which, he was imprisoned
for a whole year and robbed of the presence of God, because he
;
bach, as
this
is
known) and
luminous sun
inasmuch
figure,
( i.
as
e.
his
Catharina)
And
may
he
cient proof
of the flesh,
of
how
which
she,
is
true.
But
ever known,
become
in her,
gifts
and
And
it
may
ably,
many
have
all
that
outward
ized by
be
may
at the house
suffi-
and what
she
is
namely, lust
after,
prefer cutting a
She was
idol-
Then many
Lord hideth
and
Who
knows how
shortly others
may
be abashed,
who
think not only to be standing alone, but also to become foundationpillars to support the entire superstructure, yea to be
such pillars
already.
blessed lowliness!
How many
fickle spirits
flit
above thee,
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40
Society.
yea, even
because
am
author
my
what
the
forth
from her
and because
.
it
cordial greetings,
rest
But
if it
may
and though
had for
its
Write thou
contained.
she, too,
both, yet I
and quietude.
It
should like
to chat
not kept.
therein was.
with
to her, prithee,
the keeper
must arrive
know what
should like to
my
upon me:
made me
is
as
man
He
would not
allure her
His sheep
His hand,
in
so neither that
Amen.
hand.
reserve.
all
in general
though
it
disgusteth those
weaklings.
us,
frequently with
what
may
W.
possible,
We had
to
salt,
effeminate
something of Portage,
who
is
H. B.
in care of this
destiny in security.
merchant
W.
entirely
now
S.,
if
see
from
S.
Send
them and,
unknown
to us.
these be addressed
The Journal of
Now,
if
Please to give
the fact, that
all
Kelphis.
41
things shall be
made
inasmuch
that
He
that
come.
we may reward
the
word
May
of
as I
Lord alone
good.
inform him of
His
Amen.
is
ours in
patience, until
Hallelujah.
Yours,
J.
K.
III.
,OUR
in the
Lord:
many
Lord
one and
in
of us as stand in one
to perceive,
is
lost sight of
them assuredly
in divine
by magicians, but
is
faith-
adept in the black art though he could soar aloft and crush his op-
may
power.
Behold,
how
is
Through
already
morn-
is
insti-
tuted from the simple and childlike ground of faith, the true lovefeast or
made
Lamb
German
(thus Apocalypse 19
Bible).
As no mention
is
up to
blessed that are called thereunto, until after holding such a lovefeast,
the
King himself
tioned person
who
in
The Journal of
Kelpius.
43
it
to a
close.
My
and
dear
to
little
write
how
wedded unto
soul-spark
manifest
to
but
of,
the light of
its
through
properly
itself
many
is it
things to speak of
above imperishable
awkward, unpropor-
tioned organs of our present miserable body, wherein the same lies
Nothing
captive besides?
is
not even the most beautiful colors of our aurora, because such are
not the fixed body, though veritable signs of the same.
Therefore,
God
our Father,
we
especially labor
Psalm 63
God, thou
art
my
my God
flesh
thirsty land,
where no water
yearn thus!
The
pathless desert
body that
the
is
flesh of
and dry
to
sit
in
my
And how
is.
my
often doth
flesh
flesh of this
body
to the
beloved desireth,
birth-right,
to
Yet
may
be seen
Therefore,
let
it is
many
children
heavily.
bound
mystery of
thereunto.
this
binding
Hence
in spirit, or
there ariseth:
I.
too
blessed
" I
to see the
or of another; 2. a
life
according to one's
own
advice, caring
for that
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word
Society.
4. spiritual
of the prophet,
luxuriance
Old Testament,
own
circle
and
when
the
essential
is
no better
remedy than the drawing rope and that which the Lord, through
the raisin, so truly testifieth at the last: Put on a rough coat and
hide thyself, so that no one
in
confirmation of
tance;
5.
to the
making
That which
thee.
XLXX,
modate ourselves
on
may know
this,
his
we
is
written
of impor-
is
cannot accom-
manners, but
Now,
abode therein.
we
as that
why
the
Lord
fly
is
into a
hidden them, not only from men, but also from one another. (Yea,
LXX.
added)
also
from one's
6.
come
to pass
which has a
is
is
in
heaven,
beyond the
Venus with
(in
is
as being
thus affected).
lies
In
connection
in
another folly arising in them from ignorance, in that they constantly look at the accidents that
may
may.
if
and
to have'
clothing, eating
and drinking,
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'45
of Kelpiiis.
principle,
greatest,
is
great
evil,
we
May
our
God and
that they
7^*^,
My
dear
little
work
disgrace
upon
disgrace.
7.
may
He
deliver
tribulation in
brother, pardon
my
prolixity, I
am
not seeking to
am.
am
only trying to
when
many
me and
especially
What
tion.
me
bear
it.
What
God
shall I say,
our Father
who
when
shall I say,
upon which His providence hath lifted us poor worms, and borne
My heart is melting away in
us and conducted us wonderfully.
tears
for
it
lieth
still
in
My
letter,
as the
bodily health
to
is
its
joy shall be
made
this be,
womb
manifest.
Lord permitteth,
us, as
well as you
especially in regard to C.
may and
just
Reecken and
others.
The
cataracts
David
which
nor
is
this at all
is
judgment
P. S. to
my
Greetings,
letter.
On
etc., etc.
wonderment:
i.
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46
Society.
to write
something totally
yet bound.
I,
though
I,
for the
most
when
upon
us.
commend
all
ings
saved us from so
many
part,
how His
fatherly
so that I
heart, for
He
Farewell.
Ephrata Document).
IV.
in
Long Island^
in America.
this
is
in
Preparation of the
Your
which
when
little
King
the
of
to enter.
is
Name
of Pietists,
what they hold as Doctrin differing from others, what their Discipline is and what Methods they use in their own Country this desire
I will hope, doth not arise from the Root of that Athenian Curiosity
to hear some new thing; But rather you being one among thousands
in Juda, who sees how since that glorious Primitive Church of Christ
;
and tend
to the
how
Names
of
till
this
many
very
smaller
yet
you
Woman
in the
Wilderness
Remnant
Mother and groan for the ManifesNo wonder then, if your continual Gazing
Therefore you,
as a
upon
1
this
Supercaelestial
Orb and
47
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48
Society.
if
God
began (Acts
21)
3,
If
now
this late
under the
Name
Name
all his
arid
which
in the
Roman Church
goes
it
all
Sun causeth
succeeds
it,
all
Mercy,
but to see
this,
Death
Phoenomena
is
into Life,
its
to disappear,
swallowed up
Judgment
in ye
and
Dove (Cant.
6,
all
its
new
glorious
no Night
Day, Dark-
all
do
who would
desire,
in
Earth swallows
the one
my
into
in
itself
is
9), then
all
the Sons of
God
will shout
will be all in
Amen
all,
when
again the
Halleluiah
friend,
though unknown
to
to hear of
in
and
more
How
can
Philadelphians, whose
now
Christianity.
are increased
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Millions, though they
was and
of Kelpius.
are
still
depressed)
49
15 or 20 years
the first Reformation) in the year '89 and '90, with a swift increase
through the whole Nation, so that their Branches also did break
Power
This Penn
the Pietists
(and especially
their Infancy.
is
in
This only
I say, as
one
who
Powers and
And
like as the
in
among
Germany
in
Miracles wrought by
3^
God
years
through
Hand
of Moyses was for the main part in the outward CreaMacrocosm, the Miracles of Jesus the Messia on the Bodys
of Man or Microcosm, so these in our days was wrought (much
like unto them in the days of the Apostles) on the Soul and more
the
tion or
1 1,
and Sensations
who was
tell
their very
among
all
as
sorts of
is
said, for a
matter of
old,
this
Thus
very day.
how
they
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the persuing
For when
very smartly.
I.
The
in
these things
begun
to
and
it
feel it still
to Piety
way
of
and Godliness,
(from whence their name was derived) leaving and some burning
their heathenish Logiks, Rhetoriks, Metaphysiks.
2.
The Laymen
do
till
of the
The
Holy
children
Pietists,
this
3.
if
to
begun
to see
versity
this
Motion
first
begun
to
in Lipzig,
spread abroad)
all
tion
(which
is
quite different
5.
19.
c.
2,
27.)
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should be consecrated.
Comedy was
the Acts of the Apostels, only the time and persons changed.)
till
this day.
Arm.
But
several Princes
being partly inclined to the Principles of the Pietists, partly convinced of a superior Agent in these things, took them in their Protection, especially the Elector of
Brandeb.
In the Principality of
same happened
in other
in
the
offices; the
Erford, Lipzik,
as
Thus
As
for
any peculiar Badge or Mark, they have none being above these
trifling affections)
Ceremony or
sect.
and
in
what
enough how
all the
is
are not
when
she comes up
8. 5.
They
in this
Discipline
For they
Cant.
last
Age
the
Vv^herein there
low-Pilgrim in
is
no stay (as
this
my
Wilderness
fair colours of
are not the substance or sun itself though the various beautiful
whom
to
meet
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other
may
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in the
Wilderness.
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SWEDEN.
DEL.).
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To
Immanuel.
May
Jehovah remember
toward
May
he
visit
in his salvation,
Amen
heritance.
Psalm
Very reverend
Sir
In your beloved
cvi. 45.
January
thee,
may he remember
letter,
me with
in Jesus
our
17,
fraternal love
epistle
Would
to
God
were truly such as you have outlined, or such as you have judged
me with my most beloved Rudman. By day and by night I attend,
indeed, that I
and of
soul,
thatJ may
may
and
cleanse myself
perform
my
1-2; Phil,
How many
iii,
body (Rom.
11-15; Gal.
parasangs as yet
iv,
is
my
Lord, and
pattern by
viii,
23.
Compare i John
Tim. iv, 8)
5; Apoc. xix, 8; 2
may be
known
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whom
God,
rich in
lence) and
Jesus (Eph.
i,
in the
heavenly (places)
20).
ii,
20,)
(in si-
secret
in
knows (my
Christ
short-
comings) save alone the searcher of hearts and minds; for that
which our beloved Rudman bore witness concerning me, is to be
(Rudman) and
(i
was
He
Cor., xiii).
sustaineth
all.
naught of
evil does
endureth
am
to divine charity,
is
believeth
all,
he
irritable,
all,
hopeth
all,
but he rejoiceth in
that you,
fully convinced,
it
where-
he think, nor
Sometimes
verity.
affected
in
no wise
doings, but that with a sincere heart and with pure affections, as
in others,
it.
earthly
man,
&
another
divine
(theologian)
does
folly,
not under-
(judged) spiritually,
whom
ing)
busy
(office),
&
in
the
hall
Cor.
2,
14.
That
is,
&
scrutinizing, instructing
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which
&
and
might discourse
of, if I
in spirit
&
&
it
superfluous to begin
ship in Christ,
&
may
mention,
our
life in
(assume)
take
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in truth.
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holding
Verily
confess with
(against)
for
IX.
(chap.
the
15.)
up great barriers
witness
down
Wisdom
&
the spirit
many
cares.
dise,
travellers
David
Woe
is
this
in
me who am wandering
!
The
Kedar!)
i.
e.
in
That
dwell
with the
among
the
5.
so long, dwelling
From which
cause
we
desire
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although
with 1
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letter
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more
little
But does
seem
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to
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2.
i.
But you
57
this
just now.
heart,
that
life?
we
time must be
in a strait,
(does
it
God
in
this life?
the victory
do both
words
in
&
the Lord,
pare Eph.
20.
5,
to life they
&
Thess.
I.
God
5,
&
But
18.
many
seeking
because
it
was not
field of victory
it
seems to
wonder)
from the
&
Scarcely
me
I shall
in
to
was
every
way
in these
be
&
perfect.
doth not
aid.
What-
Testament,
use of an emblem,
therefore as
if
God
&
in the old
make
Hence
Matt.
6.
6, 8,
if
truth
in
desire of
ibid., v.
9,
Tim.
2, 4.
I say, if
10.
my
cause he
over
we
is
i.
Cor.
&
in
food
(entirely)
life,
all
(no
becoming
the
life,
from the
&
to the
rich
lawful
it
God
(were)
words
to eat, to drink,
ought
com-
when
of Jesus,
works.
name
giving thanks to
how
6, 12.
Be-.
God, more-
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degrees of perfection) nevertheless dominion cons'steth not in possessing nothing (for vi^hat sort of king
mind from
in the
[whereof
sure
the
not,
rejoiceth
are
signs
concerning
/?)
a)
in
lost,
he
thus
the
&
God,
God, that
is,
affairs,
&
IL The Virtue
Mark
9,
that
it is
possible now-a-days
convinced.
why
&
me
13. as
so
5.
By (with)
is
not,
therefore,
that
having
things
me by
shall
&
shew
an
Christ, Phil,
I
can do
who
all
without Christ
as
with Christ
(or, strengtheneth
more
(Has)
Preserver?
can perform
&
4,
God
perfect service?
is
6.
17,
Why
things?
y)
23.
Luke confirms
&
he
not worried,
is
&
am
us,
(mind)
things
acquired
That however
by no disquiet]
affected
is
have asked
in
my
inability
any
we may
John
I,
even
as
hath
all
these,
if
(we be)
he himself
sons
&
testified!
God:
He
that believeth
John
14,
12.
(the
works that
do, shall he
do also;
&
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who
he
with
this
is
me on my
with
Father on
his throne,
Whatsoever
4.
5,
sit
my
Apoc,
God
begotten of
is
shall I
a victor
Epistle,
I.
&
the victory, that hath overcome the world, even our Faith.
what
&
nism (skepticism)
causes, certainly,
doubting to blush,
is
that
perfection, with
energy thereof,
(to
epithet),
finally,
my
Pyrrho-
well-known love of
the omnipotence
the
in
But
so are
down
And John
3, end.
have
shall
him
to
we
we
surpass
would
the
Who,
&
despair of victory, as
more
there-
the neces-
if
the Christ-loving soul, that she could not please her bridegroom of
Whether
the perfect?
who
or no, he
&
loved his
gave to us
mixed, inadequate?
to say: a suspicion)
God! John
he
measurable
&
saith,
entire.
imperfectly, or a spirit,
God
He
gave
spirit
without measure,
himself, of a verity,
exceeding
Hence,
his
is
sap
(are nourished).
(not
&
imthe
also, the
also,
e.
we
i.
the vine,
branches
3,
6.
he
all desire,
compare Rom.
5, 5.
well to the
so
&
we
in his son
only begotten
To whom,
is
Away
own
his
far do
spirit of this
we
world
or, in
(i
John
4,
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same
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is
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&
man
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&
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perfect, he
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similar objections,
first year,
all
art
with
&
it,
answer:
now?
even
it
have shewn
possible even
scarcely shewest
saints of old
spirit survives,
plisher?
it
in
&
affairs, in perishable
first
day,
he reaches man-
furnished (endowed)
human body:
granted, even
if
all
members be very
delicate,
manhood.
mortal generation,
if
when (where)
tion,
fication,
namely,
is
accomplished through
generation
&
renovation
But
all these,
&
faith
filiation,
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to
speak)
but
we may
manhood in
Christ, according to that dictum And he that is righteous, let him
do righteousness still & he that is holy, let him be made holy still.
lives,
until
i.
e.
the age of
Apoc. 22.
that
&
which
is
that
well-known saying:
good, retrogradeth
He
Namely, even
as
we advance from
child-
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manhood, gradually,
to the age of
from
advance)
vices
virtues, 2. Pet.
seven degrees;
fection,
i,
we
not in the
6.
5.
&,
virtue,
to
&
7.
by little, (we
from virtues unto
little
Apoc. chapters
I.
&
II.
where the
come, but in
And
away by degrees;
the very
when
just as,
so,
turn,
in
6l
Kelpius.
bottom
&
the root
is
until,
Christ, the sun & light of the spir& new world, not only beginneth to dispel in us the reign of
darkness & foul whirlpool night, but through faith in ourselves, he
Thus
conducteth the
war unto
But
perfect victory.
i.
of this
is
faith according to
life,
not of the
life
therefore,
we must
Nor
God
nor
his
who
sibilities:
God was
promise of victory, as
although
I also,
my
of
am
I daily
bent upon
it,
He
&
29)
make
may
in
vain,
&
But
&
Matt. 25),
the victory,
&
all
Canaanites, yet
camp
19, 2.
&
&
life
8.,
&
He
were commanding
should not obey His command of per-
impossibilities, of severity, I
fection.
if
to
of
because
consequently not
that I
7.
command
afterwards
unwilling so
if
if
Matt.
5,
Pet.
I,
15, 16.
I.
should distrust
war
Him, He
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me
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day,
I
i.
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i.
in this life, I
e.
in the life to
would
seek the
manna on
who
who
the Sabbath
come.
entered,
were
this life, as if it
of Christ,
&
I did not
go forth to
night, I neglected to
it
&
the bridegroom
how
if
great
undergone
cultivating the
&
mind towards
how
clothed,
&
at the schools,
&
thoroughly these
age in this
virile
life,
&
if
dead, he
I say,
went
i.
e.
He
remained hidden,
A Man.
And,
after that, he
most
perfectly fulfilled the will of his Father for the salvation of the
went out
entire world, he
of
his
believing on him.
m.e he pleadeth
He
life,
also aideth
do the will of
his
mine
Holy
my
am
Father Abba.
both willing
And
Spirit
infirmities; for
is
of this
&
8,
26)
unto
all
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&
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Almighty
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therefore,
all Saints:
whom,
is
up
to be delivered
him; a virgin, I
to
say, chaste
Holy
borne
my
&
&
whirlpool
filthy
& may
of
is'
life.
mire (Psalm
XL.
that,
as to
3.)
&
That
the Son
us.
far
have
steps,
gate of death (Psalm IX.), insomuch that with the same David,
I should
fiercely!
be of the healing not of the killing one: with the rod of love of a
father toward his son, Hebr.
12.,
sword of judgment]. For thy darts are thrust upon me, thy
hand presseth me down \_& with Job, chap. 6. The arrows of the
Almighty are ivithin me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up,
the
while I
my
in
ment,
am
&
bringeth
sin
within
me &
me,
in
him over
if
not (only)
For nothing is sound in my body [vicime! for I know & daily experience that the
i.
e.
in
Thy
my
flesh
or in the
this] so great
son,
who was
is
human
nature
&
may become
into death,
gratuitous consolations,
without.
didst give
Thy
ousness dwelleth in
Thou
Thy chastisement
Thy dreadful judg-
uninjured on account of
my
sin.
my
oflE,
limbs there
is
nor that
nothing
VI.
An
answer
to her letter,
expression of
my
Immanuel!
Granted the
,OUR
in
&
Eph.
request.
i,
&
ments,
of God.
I,
duly received.
'4,
sin of the
in that
of the Saints,
C,
revered Sister:
I rejoice in that
slumber of
In Jesu
17-23.
&
&
from worldly
senti-
would walk
Son
God of Peace, hath, indeed, begun in your soul the work of the
new creation (regeneration), & will, through the blood of the everthe
lasting Covenant,
Christ.
As
also,
perfect the
God,
&
(the Friends?)
your
&
in spirit
let us carry in
our
manner of experience & cognition, to the end that you may prove,
what be the best; especially in these latter, dangerous times, in
which not only the mockers
(2.
Pet. 3, 3.2.
Tim.
3,
(scoffers), described
i)
do
in
all
by the Apostles
stations of life
manner
of angels
&
spirits (i
John
64
4.7.2.
Pet. 2,
&
in all
gone forth
i.
all
Matth. 24.
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Cor. II. 19.
II. I.
arming
gregations, one
Lord
Tim.
I.
&
I.)
4.
Evangelical
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the again-born
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etc.
of
God, walk-
distinct praise,
we
meal,
&
&
hath received
this,
them hath
One
&
as
from
wanting
wanting
to
&
is
is
(of
last
which you,
dear Sister, write) claims to be the only dove, dearest unto her
mother, yea, the chosen one of her mother, yea, verily, the mother
or the very self of the
New
why
But unto
Jerusalem.
this
to
speak of their
who
should be
in the Mystery
them be most accomplished in the mystery
regarded chief
of
heretic, yea, even the Babylonian harlot herself: nor are they con-
it
make swords
moves
to pity
power
of their tongues,
first,
&
whom
(this
is
ask,
You, esteemed
know them,
Sister, will
that I
may
probably
not err In
my
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judgment,
&
become
Society.
freej
serve
is
weak
&
months
ently, as
&
&
extol
They
(statutes).
own
&
chil-
observe days
&
manner
&
differ-
among them).
&
recognize as good
& in
paltry tenets
feasts
schism or sects
gate,
a handmaid
Which becometh
dren.
Yet
tenets,
which they
&
love,
which they
before
others
(proselytize),
All of which
etc.
(sects, etc.)
semblance of wisdom
&
truth
wherefore,
love of wisdom.
Col. 2.
Of
these
Paul calleth
also,
all
(people)
what
Holy Writ, but the body
wisdom & truth are not therein
&
the occult
treasures of
wisdom
&
whom
there
hidden
lie
all
Through Him we
Him.
2,
all
tenets
are
deduced
as are
mankind, commandments
15.
9.
Isaiah
&
I.
N.B. Matth.
Whereby
those,
2.
17.
which are
Hebr.
called the
8.
5.
chap.
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light, spirit, clearness,
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is
enlightenment, mutes
more
else
spiritual
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it is
hath appeared in
cepted)
what
for
&
that such,
67
Especially in the
etc.
Old,
in the
in
which
(primitive
Christianity
&
there
(mistress)
To
same
is
whose
senses
dis-
in
woman
herself,
Dove
of
upon what
is
may
not
meant by
Woman,
New
Solomon, or the
the rightful
the
fall into
the
New
ex-
abideth,
still
Son.
it
Christendom
of justice,
of Kelpius.
may
in
more.
shall be
&
of
weeping
What
a repentant heart
else
is
complain
&
(regeneration), John
again
New
In the
&
heard no
What
wailing
shall be
in
He
if
Where
is
filleth
the loudest
16.21.
is:
(as
we
Naught
John
Heb.
II.
26.
are laid in
&
upon the
that
who,
In brief:
vile shall
sin
no more,
therefore, die
no more,
The
entire creation
is
falsehoods), but
9.28.,
John
which
&
to this
death,
(creature), by the
hour
all
creatures
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&
the second
Adam,
Society.
8,
when He
come a
shall
whereas
spiritually,
shall be both;
it
still,
Thess,
wonderful
ful,
of
that
10.
5,
&
in
i,
Who
8. calleth
&
but
it
only in
&
&
the faith-
all
when
prisoners will
all
which we have
lost in
Old Testament
had but the
is
appear glorious in
be set free,
it
God.
This
8.
He
however,
is
our
firstlings,
first
Of
filled.
father
this the
Adam, whereof
Apostles
&
the entire
Christians
first
the
5. 7.)
as they
They
hour.
possessed all
manner
Him
even to this
Thus,
in their
&
of groaning, weeping
(lA.
2, 46. 47.
13).
If
C.
3, 31.
Rom.
5, 3-5.
&
liar
rejoicing
i
Pet. 4.
wanted
to join
Phil. 4, 4.
&
became
adore
God &
confess that
God was
truly in him.
Cor.
&
4, 24, 25.
(though these did not long enjoy their happiness, for the great
&
apostasy
Thess.
2,
Antichrist
7.)
And
&
Apoc. 3)
(grasped)
for
simplicity, the
satisfied
they had
seized
wanted no more
the
with any
in
gifts, until
their days.
&
filled,
(as in
as
Laod.
utmost dove-like
heart, that
is
not
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to say
&
himself
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participant of
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Come!
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less)
but to exclaim
gifts)
Kelphis.
come quickly
amen. Whence all, that are
the same Spirit cry, by day & by night, at all places,
yea, I
whithersoever they have been scattered: " Yes, come Lord Jesu! "
But
only?
then,
demption of
how
Sister,
Or,
what
Col. 3, 4.
Did
i-ii.)
which
John
Jesus,
all
8, 15.
3, 2. 2.
members
&
Peter
the re-
3. entirely.
Cor. 15.
Cor.
2.
5,
is He to be expected in
whom his disciples did see
hence,
in the spirit
wrought
the perfection to be
is
spirit
only?
to ascend bodily,
from the
Mount
of Olives
we
come. Friends,
Apostles
whom
&
Is,
then,
"He
whom
he,
they had
& who
already ascend,
(seen)
sent
them from
The
Holy
as aforesaid,
do the
spirit
we
most godly,
tion,
hear at
as
you
"
do
Him
Spirit?
then,
himself
&
all
Why,
&
weeping, lamenta-
bridegroom?
If,
all
why,
is
Is
howas the
amongst
then,
as
spirit?
ever, ye
is
the
just
give
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honor unto
God &
that you
confess:
Society.
glimpse of His beauty through His spirit in your hearts, but never
yet have ye seen the
Lord
Him
exaltation!
rejoice in
much, that your joy would nevermore be taken from you (John
so
1
6,
Him
whom
anew.
Yea,
if
He
spirit,
to rejoice as at a
woman
in the desert
&
her seed, together with the Spirit, ye would cry day and night:
"
&
But
His coming.
patiently await
number
horrid
it,
if
&
liars,
of all
manner
of sinners,
is
among
far greater
tenets
ye
that the
&
you,
(statutes),
vices,
under
cover of which the worst hypocrites can conceal, yea really do conceal themselves
any
Fox
though
statute,
it
way
be the
in his
Journal
As
soon as
Now,
among women,
should
that
free
is
community
from blemish
&
Christians,
a picture
&
trembling
is
the spirit of
spirit of
&
the
Jesus, the
Hagar
new Adam,
&
trembling.
Hagar
Sarah, which
is
&
Sinai,
Now,
Heb.
Mediator
&
new
&
not the
creation in
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nant,
is
joyous confidence
wrought by
from Zion
heart
&
&
life,
assurance, read
John
Rom.
&
the
maketh
to feel
it
gay towards
&
so that
do good unto
gladly,
But the
8.
the spirit of
Sinai
(Concerning
5, 24.
we
all
will,
men,
servile spirit of
&
&
Now
ye have,
indeed, caught a glimpse (of the true community, but deeming the
same endangered
as yet
&
(to you)
you
have as yet not reached the tranquilly flowing nether waters of perfection because these
But, esteemed
are
Sister, I
inexhaustible
seem
to
(lost
in
inexhaustibility)
in apostro-
Lord give unto (you) her the spirit of Wisdom & Scrutiny, so that
Mary, choose the best part. But methinks I hear
her say: This would I fain (have) should I forget thee, Jerusalem,
may my right be forgotten. My tongue must cleave unto my palate, whenever I suffer not, Jerusalem, thy memory to be my greatest joy.
This is the free one
This is the fairest amongst women.
This is the dove, the only one of her mother, the dearest, the chosen
one of her mother. But, alas, where is she
Who leadeth me unto
she may, with
her!
Since
my
&
those
that offered oil unto me, were the petty merchants in Chaldea.
He
&
whom my
soul loveth,
to
pray,
the fairest of
of one of the
where
I
He
may but
wander
is
pastureth,
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Hath
(is)
be as yet on earth,
am
city
I to find
&
on earth,
Society.
she
tell
me,
which
in
The answer
her abode?
was
She
is:
is,
and
Apoc.
(wilderness).
when
which
indeed, as yet
But, after she had given birth to the self-same boy, she
desert
she
if
in
whence
12.,
Cant.
8,
5.
(Song of Songs).
And
Cant.
praise her.
understand
Describe unto
it.
feathers, so that I
may know
me
hear
I
;
though
it
&
her
tell
I shall
my
can not
Yes,
her.
her,
is
&
Meseemeth, however,
(9).
8.
6,
goods
the
brightly!
best.
we
proportion to
I, in
come
my
tell
do
my
her; that
be-
the
David; hence
desire to
fly, if
his yearning.
he
danger, wherein
in
Isaiah
If ye
c.
30, 15.
remained
hoping, ye
fly
ye
still,
Jer.
14,
lO.
strong.
have become
a soul perisheth.
N.B.
would be
many
&
Cant.
Cant,
i,
&
night.
And when
To
may
not, like
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of Kelpius.
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invoke Egypt,
Oh, he that
virgins run.
The
beware of them.
rightly
knoweth
oil signifieth
these, in verity
doth he
Thus
love.
is
five
there are to be
prudent
&
five
foolish virgins, five things, that our five senses be not injured in
namely:
The
i.
bridegroom,
But,
Matth.
2.
may God
Tim.
2,
15.
may
word
filth
of the
of truth,
nor,
indeed, purchase the oil or light herself for the bridegroom; nor
oil
in
at
world.
&
God
sit
not only at
&
(wife), Apoc.
catch
&
chap.
7, 14.
Rome &
is
palpable darkness.
men
as
little
their lamps,
midnight of the
kill
in
little oil,
Even the
the doves.
off)
by the blood
their first
v/cman
14, 4., again be defiled with other women, because these may be
more comely (beautiful) than the first? Let that (thought) be
far removed
Those, however, that do it, will, in time, find their
second purification more difficult than the first.
Now, my dear Sister might say, " Even so would I, as a chaste,
!
pure virgin, follow the lamb, the spotless, the pure, even the lamb
of
God,
been ransomed by
it.
whithersoever
But how am
it
I to
goeth, because
walk,
in this
I,
too,
have
Sardian disper-
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among
sion,
draggle
my
so
garments, Rev.
& if she
really in earnest,
3, 4.
&
Gal.
her, or at least
love
may once
upon
this love,
the dove-kind
if
10.
i,
4.?"
14,
His
Mar.
may
that I
not
soil
Answer:
bride, yea,
6, 24,
2.
14, 15.
6,
&
be perfected in her,
Eph.
Is
3, 17.
it
she be rooted in
Come
thus?
She
on!
desert
on
i.
By
dragon!
hosts,
the lamb,
Cant.
rapt of
is
is
first,
dawn,
as the
vanguards of
is
rible as
this
founded
early.
&
i.
Jac. 4, 4.
or, 2.
whoso would
genuine
such a simple
if
Cor.
nor be-
If she be
&
John
c.
Society.
"O
6, 9.
all, to
yes!
after-
finally, ter-
would she
say,
"
and consider
God
stand
all that I
have already
the will
patient,
sion, yet
it
will not, as I
God
But,
be praised,
But,
if
not?
if
she under-
& may He
Then,
let
grant
her be
This
sense
then,
tual.
said, I
weigh
is
twofold:
i.
Corporal
&
2.
Spiri-
unfathomable).
Herein
it
signifieth those
who
this
fled into
the wilderness before the great apostasy (falling oE), soon after the
(whereof the
life
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Kelpius.
is worthy of perusal).
Whereof in Rev. c.i2ij/k to 6.
Here, the corporeal wilderness of the entire Christianity,
(forefathers)
verse 2.
(apostatized),
is
meant, which
members
of Christ
&
woman,
called the
is
that
all the
is,
all religions
&
stations in
life, as
Therefore,
we ought
well as
much
as
not to despise
any religion, because Christ still hath in all His true members; nor
must we regard any religion too high, as hath been said above suf-
The spiritual sense, however, though it, too, is inexmay be subdivided into two heads: i. In regard to the
whole community or body of Christ, which we shall, for the present,
not discuss, 2. With regard to every member of this body in particular.
Just as now the entire body of Christ is in the desert or
hidden, so also is every member or soul in particular. No reasoning, though it put on all spectacles, can recognize the latter, yet may
ficiently.
haustible,
be angered at them,
&
4.
Coloss. 3,3.
But
But
Lord hideth
the
If
what
it
wings
to fly thereinto.
Then
dove, day and night for the longed for loved one, how, meanwhile,
the loved one feed her with the hidden manna, Apoc. 2,
He
know
the secret
&
How
7.
5,
8.
Psalm 28, 14
which God ordained (prescribed) before the
world
splendor.
How He will donate unto her His great,
secret goods (treasures), which are better than life. Psalm 31, 20.
.
How He
know
the hidden
God &
Matth.
6, 6.
&
Saviour,
the Father
who
who
this friend
march through
Matth. II.
15.
the
wood
of life
&
cross,
Exod.
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How
17,
water of
many
upon her
will fall
day of joy
&
transformed into) a
(is
by knocking with
life
faith, Exod.
during the day, from out the cloud that
How
Cor. 10, 4.
I.
guideth her, so
&
Horeb becomes
Society.
as a
baptism of grace.
when
shouting,
the
Holy Ghost
move
Who
Then
new
birthj that
was born
lust,
in the desert,
&
now grown
is
to the
age of manhood, then will he lead this birth to the taking of the
new Canaan,
this desert
&
some
(wilderness)
bloometh
which
as the lilies!
so joyful,
is
Yes,
Lebanon
it
is
&
for
standeth so glad-
re-
The ornament
ness).
Isaiah, 35,
yoke
i.
mild (gentle).
is
The
to
become
alive
is
poverty
as light.
is
unrest
is
is
&
is
to be
itself
&
thirst
to be
have
weak,
is
no trouble, no work
&
hunger
tires,
Now,
the wilderness,
then.
&
Esteemed
Sister, are
are ye pleased to
flee
more
for the
From
there shall arise (be built) the fairest city, namely, the
salem.
itself,
Here, dying
12.
nothing
Psalm 139,
you willing
thereinto
New
to
Then
Jeru-
come
it is
into
neces-
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&
Be
all
no wildernesses
but inhabited
their
the primitive
in
it
&
spiritual understanding,
(first)
of temples
cities, full
yj
If she be willing to
altars.
with Him.
He
But
if
self,
Him
is
if
But he
else to follow.
the surest
way;
do,
if
she, according to
&
at
home, bodily
&
&
Him
To
follow
is
And
spiritually,
bridegroom.
remain with
to
is
lest the
it,
in a friend of the
&
Him
she hear
this she
6, 6.
may
remain
in secret,
&
her Father,
Amen.
greetings, I am ever ready
who
seeth in secret,
With
&
cordial
I shall
to serve
you
in Christ,
The
Lord, our
King, grant her His benison from Zion, to the end that she may
see Jerusalem, her salvation,
throughout her
life.
J.
P.S.
Many more
how is it possible
The Lord, however,
united harmony, may
Kelpius.
His
with pen
spirit,
&
ink!
that we, in
though absent
another
&
offer
in body,
up one
in
&
&
Thus we
ever
of the
shall,
&
H.
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Buntchy sends
&
Both he
her conversion
exceedingly because of
Society.
&
H. Matthey
(growth
to
in)
rejoice
Christ.
&
May
& with
us,
Indeed,
stones
Is
4,
God
17.
And
&
Jerusalem,
ii, 52).
we
Those
whom
hold the
Whence
confirm
(John
outside of Jerusalem.
&
wrought with
Nehem.
amongst
live
Lord strengthen
the
They
toward salvation
who
God,
might not
When, however,
yea,
the last
stone shall have been perfected, then will the edifice suddenly appear
&
&
magnificence.
shouting, appear in
Therefore, beloved
we
no one
shall see
God.
In
my
It
But,
epistle I
am,
as a fellow-servant,
Should be
if
she
it
that aught
may
may
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speak no more)
thus he
awakening of her
first
Shepherd
spirit
&
Bishop
79
of Kelpiiis.
soul.
(Overseer)
of
plete perfection.
&
com-
Amen.
I remain,
Esteemed
Your
Sister,
faithful brother, J.
K.
VII.
LETTER TO
To
OUR
Magnificence:
am
I
it,
letter afforded
and uprightness of
me
I did behold in
What
my
dear Mr.
true,
is
that
into
my
mind,
albeit I love
other sects that approach and call themselves Christ's, the Bap-
all
tists
God
work and
is
religion.
agreeable to
vi^ith
He
Him.
that feareth
is
God
how
(if
remember
faith in the
God
W.
rightly)
of
they answered
server of
yourself,
in the
Yet one
when he wanted
space per-
Memoirs
to
of
now
instance I will
last,
Anno
1701
preach to them of
tience
of
right,
(if
is
all sorts
"
You
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land
we
now
may
held in
take
from you.
it
8i
Kelpius.
life,
and divide
manor
He
not by years).
He
it
we
believe
will also preserve our children after us, and provide for them,
Whenever we
we
this,
shall be
made worthy
to see the
many and
varied
in
want or
they shall be
if
whom
they
who
But
life
theologiae
its
so
as died in
Adam,
all
his
alive in the
live in Christ,
know
that
must be de-
some cranks,
spiriti
mas
men,
Divines,
beast,
all
livered
make
life.
very frequently.
all
Meseems, however,
neither in
Greek nor
in
Hebrew denoteth
word
Eternity,
which
rather the contrary as they have both singular and plural numbers,
Eternities.
But
just as the
also, their
if
it
they, perchance,
judge hereof
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as the blind
do of
them the
How
judge otherwise.
But
colors.
wroth
the
if
mind, they
spiritual
Society.
formerly would
his infinite
will,
no doubt,
wax toward
those
God
to
my blind
neighbor,
of
Not to speak
fragmentary work and
theirs?
pecially, because I
with those
who do
to
men
But, es-
become one
in
God
whence
much
I.
I proffer this
common
foundation
eyes before
the
hope
Although
was wronged,
if I
me
on a firm
Quakers
was
human
standpoint.
in this country, as I
it is
was
either a Jesuit or
state,
easy for
me
an Indian
to be
Deitist,
judged from
who
of Christ and Paul, though professing to be his disciples; Therefore I can harmonize as little with the canon of the Anglical
Church (Confession),
as
must
much
To
the
a private view,
little faith.
as,
If
anyone amongst
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etc.,
he
is,
the
opinion
and
New
England,
as
their
so
own
is
many
heads, so
experience.
consequently
wrong
many
be,
and
if
all
to a particular examination
on
the result
(Here the
to place all
It
The
would
be, as
amongst others
mine
ends abruptly).
VIII.
health
God
though considerably
precarious,
still
Is
Improved,
be praised.
Helper
is
it
to pass, that
Much
how Moses
we
could
was great
In Babel, just as
Red
Egypt, ruled
In
(Cyrus?)
Sea: consider,
Moses
In the
midst
temple: consider,
how Christ
we know,
Lamb, and,
therefore,
ours.
God and
within
and
his
as his
own.
flesh
still,
until
and bone.
waiting therefor;
mation, because
if
must,
O,
.he now shall awake
Yea, when he shall have
how
us,
little for
because he
is
the consum-
richly therefor?
84
the
us,
How
growth
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strong
85
how many
spirit,
spiritual
Kelpius.
gifts of
their inheritance,
house-mates,
and resting
who
we have
God,
in the will of
by His providence,
sweetened, in the
in
arrive.
mean
this
And
and diminutive
finally
in this wise,
in
their
if
their beloved
much
whom
that they
own
estimation, in so
is
have
meted out
O, how
more humble
whom
despise their
own
self;
but
if
And
their
own
self,
&c.
is
they
own
rise
self.
from
IX.
My
d. 25,
Mayi.^
The Son
EING
^M W
to
0m I Q^
B^pfl
our Saviour.
is
in
is
an evident sign to
Love and
in the
time
ness
,-
it is
from
me
my
remem-
Truth.
with no
less
us,
brance
God
found
"***
of
Fervency on
my
Side,
but
to stop
at present,
was about
this matter.
NESS STATE,
Viz:THE
ril venture
THREEFOLD WILDER-
lines
Con-
having Confidence
in
Of
the
first
Verbatim,
The
we
I finding
Of
et literatem.
86
in
The Journal of
Kelpius.
Wilderness, and as
87
second, viz:
Of
the
Fruitfull Wilderness,
The
first
is
is
in the
The
set at Liberty.
to
its
The Second
its
is
led out of
Arm
of
manhood
God
in
Holy one
Egypt
The Second
after Egypt.
Caleb (Joshua
seeth
Ye
God
seeth
Caananwarts and
and
salvation of
God and
filled
The
limiteth
Heart lusting
its
preserved,
is
its
undaunted, faithfull)
God, being
First seeth
well as in the
as
its life
falls
Egypt
its
of heart, courageous,
The
in Israel, alwais
and
Wilderness,
in the
Egypt
also begotten in
second
begotten in Egypt,
first is
Wilderness.
Ye
like as
first
in
is
continual fear of
and puts
The
The
94, 13).
Second
his feet
to this riseth
is
Second deriveth
and
liveth in
its
24; Psal.
God The
:
First
when He
dyeth, liveth
Mystery and wants an Explanation else it may be misconstrued, but I hope you are no Stranger
to it).
The Second liveth under Moses as well as the First as
long as Moses liveth (Gal. 4, i Rom. 7), but is hidd inward; by
in the
Second (This
is
a great
chance he
is
called the
inward
Man
in the
to his
inward
Terror of
state
outwardly
(Num.
27,
3,
to the
6; and
5) of
word
to the
Whose Land
Wise
the
his
his
we have
8,
11).
I
is
he taketh Pos-
will not
enough.
of
draw
the
And since
Ye Barren
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Wilderness,
we
which
many
so
Society.
Dew
(Psal. 33,
Eyes
baptism,
in a
who would
less
through the
self
But
Furnace, which
it
is
upon
this
Ye
Son, and
'
Not my
will,
indeed
is
New;
for she
Father
Tree
of the Cross
The
6,
Darkness
10).
in this pleasant
Hunger
is
enjoy
is
(2 Cor.
all
10).
12,
To
To
like the
is
Wilderness to
5,
become weak
is
To
6).
have nothing
is
to
the greatest
strength.
Disquietness
Pain doth
32, 24),
tire,
is
for the
and yet
more we work
we do
7,
10).
the stronger
No work
no
we grow (Gen.
(Cant.
2, 5).
Oh
Singing.
of
The
glory of Libanon
In thee
we
see the
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weak Hands
In thee our
are
Strengthened and our feeble Knees confirmed (Esa. 35, i). Who
would not desire to be a Denizon in Thee? Who would not de-
happy desolation,
Divine Sophia
who
O!
light to
tants of this
bless
and
ye Inhabi-
hand
of that
when
she
Heart,
in
trie the
same!
Do
untill she
14,
15,
farthest,
LXX
according to the
comp. Exod.
This Valley
3, i,
Syrach
4,
17-28).
We may
ELECT OF GOD,
the
First.
exceeds by so
it
call
as
the
much
to the
degree
WILDERNESS OF THE
I shall
and
it
me
(further)
Two
out of the
New
Test.
the Flesh, who, as the Acts 2, 7, give us to understand, had a Revelation that
He
miscarried of the
whereupon he
years.
fled
What He
Angel
in
into
the Wilderness,
did there
is
He
the hindermost or
nowhere
He was
Execution,
would put
People,
where he remained 40
furthest)
Desert.
the Backside
And
(or
there the
of the
in order to send
ward
as
Mo-
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So backward was he
Signs).
now
Society.
so that
in the
to go,
and
his great
Sheep
first in
which
at last
last
Symbolically typified by
is
Whereas formerly when his firy Quality was not yet thoroughly
tinctured and Metamorphosed into the Lamlike nature. He led his
flock, but, as it were, on the Brim and foreside of the Wilderness,
of which I had more to say, but lest the Letter should exceed its
bounds,
tory
must hasten
runs into
many
Kings
of Baal, as
He was
6, 29.
Moses had
Wilderness
40
days,
as
Moses
He came
first
a very zealous
did.
He made
Moses
and had
They
the Egyptian.
his.
which
is
Fleyah and
Read
Witness.
his escape
the his-
and
life,
as the
his
Mount of God Horeb, the very same where Moses saw the Vision,
And here God appeared unto him, and gave him a gentle Reprimende
as
touching
his
that the great and strong winde and the Earthquake and the Fire
(wherein Elijah's
his
7000
left
him that had not bowed unto nor kissed Baal though they
to him, and had not ministered publiquily
with storming and quaking and burning Jealousy as he had done.
Thereupon being Condemned to substitute another in his Room
(viz: to edifie, whereas hitherto he had but destroyed), he was
soon after taken up into Paradise, by the same element wherein he
besides
had ministered.
New
to
Ye
first
Wilderness
in the
Messiah,
who
Shewing unto
was
till
and Power of
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What
may
said
we
Ministry.
of
is
he did in the
what he
same
tize the
also
me.
said unto
I will
He
me
that sent
to
Bap-
That
corded of him
13, 21), so
the Spring, the Principle and cause of Life and Resurrection unto
first
thus abridged)
Heb.
all,
4,
where
He
manner
saith
15; 2, 28).
trials
(i
The
Pet. 4, 12),
But no-
or are.
hath the
Scripture in-
//
He
Matt.
27;
Job. 4, 15;
5.
5; and
the greatest
is
God
is
a Spirit
wonder,
this
to the
understanding; nor
is
it
to
all
humane and
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no
Angeelicall
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depending
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M.
Why
the?
died
The
Jesus being
God
of very
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God, became
is
Father
yet to answer
Man
to be
and
this,
this,
God
Man
(Exod.
3,
14,
where
it
vi^ho
made
I Shall be,
what
To
who was
ness) before
He was
first is
in the
David, that
man
after
installed in the
of Arabia
This
10 years
his
Kingdom,
to
which
He was
(Gal.
I,
witness), before he
first
Christians,
who
was
to
through
10,
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as
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God
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diffuse
that
full,
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consider
Three
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first
our minds
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and
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Wilderness.
in the
those
it
God
of Kelpius.
we
shall find
That
there
is
no
first;
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second
so on,
state.
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shall find
in
is
a long
is
a long contest
between
Second
is
set at perfect
may run
if
together,
Liberty and
is
state,
and one
and possess
all, I'll
to enquire;
Childhood and
to enter
than mine
made ready
by
it
to speak
Third
first.
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first
must
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cast
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on the other
beforehand.
a great presumption
it is,
It
And what
Society.
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may have
Manhood
is
arrived
a high attainment),
yet they will effect and build nothing, but only (if they do any thing
destroy, as
at all)
we
in the instances of
see
Yea, there
is
of loosing themselves and to bruise and grind that good seed, which
for
Meat but
Translation
saith,
28, and
as
make no
the
it
(as the
common
).
Such
common
experience
World
fall
Spirit of Salvation,
Earth shall
I
which Salvation we
on
fall.
to add, as also
what
the Wilder-
glancing at the
Marrow and
Substance.
Nor have
counted the
New
Moons or Nights
much
as mentioned).
for the Old (which last I have not so
Birth to the
of
the
Old
Neither have I measured from the Red-Sea
But my
more.
Jordan of the New, and a hundred such things
and not
Volume
beloved and esteemed Friend this was to write a
much
too
ventured
a Letter, And I begin allmost to fear that I have
which
is
40 Sun-Days
for the
Birth and 42
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upon your Patience
between
us.
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that
we may
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my
Love,
my
fair
himself
one and
remain,
Your
sincere,
J.K.
RocKSBORROW, 1706,
d. 25,
Maji.
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in
Flushing.
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