Diarium of Magister Kelpius

UNIVERSmy
PENNSYL\^^NIA.
UBKARIES
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TWENTY-FIFTH PRESIDENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY.

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PROCEEDINGS AND ADDRESSES

AT
LANCASTER,
PA.,
NOVEMBER
Vol.
XXV.
13,
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY

1917
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JULIUS
F.
SACHSE, LITT.D.
DANIEL W. NEAD, M.D.

J. E.
B.
BUCKEKHAM, M.D.
Copyrighted
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BY
The Pennsylvania-German Society
PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTER, PA.
UNIVERSITY
OF
PENNSYLVANIA
LIBRARIES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Contents
Officers of the Society
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
Biographical Sketches of Deceased
Ipennsplbania
The
Members
German Influence
in
....
its
Settle-
ment AND Development.

Part
XXVII.
The Diarium
of
Magister Johannes
Kelplus.
The Braddock Expedition.
Zi"i^-..
33
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

FOR
1914-1915.
President :
Hon. William U. Hensel,

(Died February
27,
Litt.D.,
LL.D.
191 5.)
Hon. Harman Yerkes.

Vice-Presidents
William
F.
Muhlenberg, M.D., LL.D.
(Died August
25,
1915.)
Albert K. Hostetter.
Secretary
Prof. George T. Ettinger, Ph.D.,

Allentown, Pa.
Treasurer :
J.
E.
Burnett Buckenham, M.D.,

Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Executive Committee:
Terms Expire
191 5.
Daniel W. Nead, M.D.

George A. Gorgas, Esq.
Rev. John Baer Stoudt.
Terms Expire 191 6.
H. Keyser, D.D.S.
William K. T. Sahm, M.D.
Naaman
Benjamin
F.
Fackenthal,
Jr.,
Sc.D.
Terms Expire 19 17.

Abraham S. Schropp, Esq.
Prof. Albert G. Rau, Ph.D.
Porter W. Shimer, Ph.D.
Terms Expire
Rev.
Rev.
Theodore
E.
191 8.
Schmauk, D.D., LL.D.
Nathan
C. Schaeffer, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.

Ulysses S. Koons, Esq.
Terms Expire
1919.
Rev. L. Kryder Evans, D.D.
Julius
F. Sachse, Litt.D.
Charles
R. Roberts, Esq.
,î(anili;;;>Wi(l^''S'.**BSti?w
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE
Pennsylvania-German Society
AT
ITS
TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING

Held
in
the First Reformed Church, Lancaster,
On
-TtHE first
^^ ing of
Friday,
November
session of the
13,
Pa.,
1914.
Twenty-fourth Annual Meet-
the Pennsylvania-German Society
was
called
to order by the President, Dr. Julius F. Sachse, in the
First
Reformed Church, Lancaster,
Pa., at half past ten
on Friday morning, November 13, 19 14, In the

presence of an excellent gathering of members and friends
o'clock,
of the Society.
After a hearty welcome had been extended to the Society

on the part of the authorities of the city of Lancaster, an
earnest Invocation was offered by Rev. John S. Stahr, D.D,,
LL.D., a former President of the Society. Upon motion
made and seconded
duly
last
the reading of the minutes of the
annual meeting was dispensed with.
The
President thereupon called for the annual report of
the Secretary,
I*
which here follows
In full.
The Pennsylvania-German
Society.
Report of the Secretary,

Prof. George T. Ettinger, Ph.D.
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
to a close, the Society has
main-
usual measure of prosperity and has continued
its
to further the noble
work
for which
it
was established by
the loving sons of loyal fathers.
In
its
all
phases of
and
ideals
its
its activities, in its
aims and
its efforts,
endeavors, our Society has remained true
which it was founded, and true to the spirit

which it has prospered. As heretofore, the Executive
Committee has continued to direct and protect the interests
of the Society in the interim between one annual meeting^
and the next. In order to do this, the Executive Committee convened six times during the past year, in January,
May, June, July, September and October. One of the
most important items of business considered at these meetto the spirit in
in
ings
was
the revised constitution proposed by B. F. Fack-
enthal, Jr., ScD., at the last annual meeting

to the Executive
fore
its
Committee for
and referred
revision, if necessary, be-
presentation for final action at this meeting.
The
Executive Committee devoted a great deal of time and

serious thought to the revision of the proposed constitution.
As
the proposer of the
new document. Dr. Facken-
was absent on an extended tour through Europe and

the East, and thus was unable to meet with the Committee,
it was deemed proper, out of deference to Dr. Fackenthal,
and to enable him to go over the entire matter with the
thal,
Executive Committee, to ask the Society at this meeting to

extend the time for presenting the
final revision
of the
Report of the Secretary.
Constitution for one year, until the annual meeting in
The
19 1 5.
mends
Executive
Committee unanimously recom-
that the Society accordingly postpones final action
until next year.
During the year another volume has been added to the

long and valuable list of annual publications that contain
It is
the proceedings and the papers of the Society.
hardly necessary to state that,
in
value of content, in rich-
and in beauty of mechanical make-up,

fitting companion to its many forerunners in
ness of illustration
the
the
book
same
is
series.
In view of the fact that a

arrears,
it
may
number of members
are in
not be out of place for the Secretary to re-
members of the following action taken by the

Executive Committee at its meeting September 3, 19 14:
*'
The Treasurer is instructed to notify members in arrears
that their volum-es are being held for them and that, if
mind
the
they do not at once pay their dues so as to be able to secure

the volumes, these same volumes may be sold and the said
members shall thus forfeit any claim to them."

was furthermore resolved that any member, owing dues
for three years to October, 1914, and not responding to
this notice, shall be dropped from the roll of membership.
Last year 451 names were reported on the rolls of the
Society; since that report sixteen new members were
elected, three resigned, two were dropped and, as far as
has come to the knowledge of the Secretary, five have died.
This leaves 457 names on the roll of active membership.
The unusual prominence of the members that have
passed away is worthy of note:
delinquent
It
Edward Welles,
Hon. James A.
leading citizen of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Beaver,
ex-Governor of Pennsylvania,
Society.
Judge of the Superior Court of this State, and a

former President of this Society.
Hon. George F. Baer, President of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad, and a former President of this
Society.
Hon. Christopher Heydrick, formerly a member of our

National House of Representatives, and at the time
of his death one of the Vice-Presidents of the Pennsylvania-German Society.
Thomas
Col.
Zimmerman, of Reading,
C.
Pa., the veteran
and cultured litterateur, also a former President of the Pennsylvania-German Society.

In view of the serious, nay the almost Irreparable loss
sustained by the Society In the death of these able and distinguished members, it may not be amiss to urge you, my
colleagues of the Pennsylvania-German Society, to constitute yourselves a general committee on membership and
increase the number of active names on our rolls.
Thus
you will strengthen the Society, increase its influence, and
editor
extend the sphere of

us secure at least one
Its
usefulness.
Can not each one of
new member during
the coming year?

you will join the Secretary in
wishing the Pennsylvania-German Society another year of
unbounded prosperity and permanent progress, in which
I
am
quite sure that all of
our organization
may
thus achieve
greater triumphs.
still
accomplish
still
greater things and
In accordance with the recommendation of the Executive
Committee
as contained in the report of the Secretary
the Society resolved to postpone action on the

tution until such time as
mittee.
may
suit
new
the Executive
consti-
Com-,
iKfliMS.ÎIm^'^Milt&MitmiSît^-
Treasurer's
Annual
Treasurer's
Dr.
J.
Annual Report.
Report.
E. Burnett Buckenham then presented the
fol-
lowing:
Repo^'^ of the Treasurer of the PennsylvaniaG-..vMAN Society from October 31, 1913, to
November
12, 19 14.
Dr.
To
balance received from Dr. Julius F. Sachse, former
To
To
To
annual dues received
Treasurer
interest
$1,981.99
$1,089.00
on bonds ...... ..T7.T..1..
40.00
235.00
publications sold
1,364.00
$3,345.99
Cr.
2.00
Stenographer, annual meeting
33'88
Clerical services
Rent
safe deposit box,
Penn. Nat. Bank
2.00
Dues, Pa. Fed. Hist. Societies

Printing
Volume XXII
Photogravure
plates,
Photographs,
W.
Proceedings
of
Gilbo
& Co
810.29
28.75
H. Rau
4.00
Electroplates, Electrotint Eng.
Co.
30.33
Translating and transcribing manuscript

Expressage, postage and sundries,
Books, postage
5.00
New
Era Co
id sundries, J. F. Sachse
35'9i
49.66
17.06
Printing, stationery and sundries
74'30
Postage and sundries
57-13
Printing half tones for Vol.
XXII
Cash on hand
98.75
9.84
$1,258.90
Balance in bank November 12, 1914
2,087.09
$3,345.99
10
Society.
Assets.
Two
&
$500 bonds E.
Balance
in Life
Fund
Co
P.
$1,000.00
included in active account

J.
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 Auditing Committee appointed by
the President of
the Society to audit the account of Dr. J. E. B. Buckenham,

Treasurer, covering the period from October 31, 19 13, to
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.
Both the report of the Treasurer and the report of the

Auditors were received and approved by formal motion.
Death of
At
this
Col.
Thomas
C.
Zimmerman.
time the attention of the members was called to
the death of Col.
was taking place
Thomas
In the
C.
Zimmerman, whose
funeral
neighboring city of Reading at the
very time of the annual meeting. Sincere words of eulogy

were spoken by H. WInslow Fegley, of Reading; Benjamin M. Nead, Esq., of Harrlsburg; and Rev. Theodore
Death of
Col.
Thomas
Zimmerman.
C.
ii
E. Schmauk, D.D., of Lebanon.
In accordance with a
formal resolution the Executive Committee later appointed
Messrs. Nead and Fegley who reported the subjoined
minute which was adopted by the Executive Committee

and is inserted here for permanent record.
Colonel Thoivias Cadwallader Zlmmerman.

The undersigned committee appointed by the Executive
Committee of the Pennsylvania-German Society to prepare
and report a minute upon the death of Colonel Zimmerman beg leave to report as follows:
Thomas Cadwallader Zimmerman was born in Lebanon,
Pennsylvania, January 23, 1838.
Here he spent his boyhood days and received his education in the public schools.
As a Newspaper Man.
At
the age of thirteen
Mr. Zimmerman
entered the
of the Lebanon Courier as a printer's apprentice.

serving his time there he went to the
where he remained until 1856, when
the Berks and Schuylkill Journal at
man printer. Three years later, in
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
he returned to Reading, and became connected with the

Berks and Schuylkill Journal. When the proprietor of
that Journal,
Mr. Knabb,
shortly after
was elected
post-
master of Reading, Mr. Zimmerman became his clerk,

which position he held until Mr. Knabb's retirement in
1865.
Mr. Zimmerman then became associated as coMr. Knabb in the publication of the Berks
proprietor with
and Schuylkill Journal, which afterwards,
in '69,
absorbed
12
Society.
the Reading Times, and two years later consolidated with
Evening Dispatch, under the name of the Times and

The Reading Times Publishing Company was
organized in 1897, when Mr. Zimmerman was named as
From his newspaper work Col.
president and editor.
the
Dispatch.
Zimmerman
What
merman
retired in October, 1908.
the newspaper fraternity thought of Col. Zimas editor
and proprietor of
newspaper can not
be better voiced than in the language used by the Memorial
Committee appointed by the Newspaper Fraternity of

Reading at the time of Col. Zimmerman's death
" In the death of
ternity of
was one
Thomas C. Zimmerman the newspaper fralost a valued friend, who for many years
Reading has
of
its
most talented members.
in the journalistic field,
his impress
for
upon the community
more than half a century.
order.
Enterprising and aggressive
and an able and
His
literary genius
many
poet of natural instinct, he left
made
was
life
of a high
choice expressions
His translations of Ger-
of the sentiments of his kindly feelings.
man
versatile writer, he
which he led an honored
in
masterpieces were so well rendered as to have given him last-
ing fame, while his skill in the rendition of English poems into the
Pennsylvania
was an
German vernacular was
earnest and indefatigable
equally meritorious.
worker
the history and traditions of the Pennsylvania
Germans, and gave
valuable aid in the organization of the Pennsylvania

ciety of
He
in behalf of perpetuating
which he was one of the most distinguished
German
presidents.
So-
As
an enthusiastic nature lover he was a frequent visitor to points of

interest in the vicinity of his adopted
home, and called attention to
their remarkable picturesqueness in imperishable words.
Chosen
to serve in boards of great public importance, he attended to all the
duties
incumbent upon him with
among men he was
best
known by
erous, affectionate disposition.
by a large
circle of friends
ability
his
and
warm
His departure
and acquaintances.
fidelity.
man
friendship and genis
sincerely
*
After
mourned
life's fitful
Death of
fever, he sleeps well,'
it
can be
Col.
Thomas
and of
C.
Zimmerman.
this earth
said, in his favorite lines
"So
fades a
summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms are

So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore."
As a
Very early
Historian and Literary
translating,
and he made
He
classics Into
had
Man.
his reading,
a great talent for
his translations
nent features of his newspaper.
German
o'er;
Mr. Zimmerman began
in life
both of prose and poetry.
the
from
his passing so gently
13
Many
one of the promitranslations
from
English appeared from time to
time.
One
of his most noted translations was the Prussian
Hymn, which appeared In the Berlin

(Germany) Times, with a half-tone portrait of the author
of the translation.
Very good work was also done by Mr.
National Battle
Zimmerman by
his translations of
Pennsylvania German.
Among
English
the
first
classics
into
of these
was
Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

His most noteworthy translation was that of Luther's
Battle Hymn, which attracted the attention of eminent
divines, professors, publicists, poets, historians and others
*'
throughout the land.
He
was also the author of the official hymn used by the

Berks County Historical Society at the Sesqul-Centennlal
Celebration, and also of the memorial hymn sung at the
unveiling of the McKinley monument In the City Park at
The published collection of Col. Zimmerman's
Reading.
translations he called " 011a Podrlda," and It has an exceedingly wide circulation.
14
Society.
Public Activities.
Mr. Zimmerman was for many years

Asylum at Wernersville.
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
president of the Pennsylvania Association of Superintend-
and Trustees of Insane Asylums; one of the founders

and president of the Pennsylvania-German Society ( 1908)
one of the founders and member of the Historical Society
of Berks County; Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Chauents
tauqua Association,
As
magazine writer he was
one of his
Day and Night
Life; a
Interesting
and
prolific;
productions being "Glimpse of
latest
Camp
with Campers on the Susque-
In the Mountain and Stream Journal.

As a public speaker Mr. Zimmerman was well known
and much sought after, on any and all occasions, but par-
hanna," published
ticularly at historical events.
He
was
selected to write the
cation of the
memorial ode for the dediat Reading in 1905.
McKInley monument
This ode was sung by a large chorus.

In recognition of his literary successes, the degree of
Doctor of the Humanities was conferred upon him by
Muhlenberg College
In
1904.
His Military Record.

Col.
the
Zimmerman had
War
a brief career as a soldier during
of the Rebellion.
He
was
member
of
Com-
pany C, 42d Penna. Volunteers.
His Domestic Life.
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
Tamsie T. Kauffman, of ReadShe died
of June, 1867.
few years ago,
but his cure for this was

leaving the Colonel
He enjoyed mountain and stream and
his love of nature.
beautiful country side, and it was his habit for nearly forty
in loneliness,
years to take long walks daily into the country.

Col.
Zimmerman took
He
19 14.
150 N. Fifth
critical.
ill
on Wednesday, October 28,
was taken to the hospital from his residence at
He
Street,
died
Reading, where his condition became
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
shall miss his cheerful personality, his valuable advice,
and
his diligent service.
So
it is
fitting that this
Memorial
Tribute should be entered upon our minutes.

Respectfully submitted,
Benjamin Matthias Nead,

H. WiNSLOw Fegley,
Committee.
President's
The
Annual
Address.
President of the Society, Julius F. Sachse, Litt.D.,
then delivered the following address:
JTT
is
just twenty-four years ago.
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
the advisability of forming a patriotic hereditary society
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
i6
their ancestors
who had helped
to feed
Society.
and clothe the pa-
army, but had not given any military service.
triot
The outcome
appeared
in the
was that an article

Philadelphia Inquirer advocating the forof these suggestions
mation of a hereditary Patriotic Society by the descendants

of the Early German and Swiss Settlers of Pennsylvania.
This proposition was at once taken up by various newspapers in eastern Pennsylvania, notably by the Lebanon
Daily Report and the New Era of Lancaster.
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
counties of eastern Pennsylvania to an in-
formal conference in the

day of February, 1891.
This meeting was held
Hark
at the
city
of Lancaster, on the 26th
in the
study of Rev. J.
Max
Moravian parsonage.
represented by sixteen
Nine counties were

representative men, who were the
actual founders of this Society.
Carbon County E. H. Rauch.

Chester County
Julius F. Sachse.
Dauphin County 'W. H. Egle, E. W. S. Parthemore,
Maurice C. Eby.
Lancaster County ^J. Max Hark, H. A. Brickenstein,
Frank R. Diffenderffer.
Lebanon County ^Theodore E. Schmauk, Lee L. Grum-
bine.
Annual Address.
President's
17
Lehigh County Edwin Albright, A. R. Home.

Luzerne County F. K. Levan.
Northampton County ^Jeremiah S. Hess, Paul
Schweinltz.
de
York County Hiram Young.

Of these early pioneers, there are now but four survivviz., Schmauk, Diffenderffer,
ing members of the Society
and
Sachse.
this
meeting
At
there was considerable
Hess
discussion as to the name and objects of the proposed Society, when it was resolved that a general call be issued
for a convention, using the name Pennsylvania-German
Society, to be held in the city of Lancaster
of April,
When
ter
was
on the 15th day
89 1.
the convention held in the court house at Lancas-
called to order
it
was found that 16 counties were
represented by 31 delegates, viz.,
Dauphin County ^W. H. Egle, E. W. S. Parthemore,

Maurice C. Eby.
Lancaster County
R. K. Buehrle, H. A. Brickenstein,
F. R. Diffenderffer, John S. Stahr, J. Max Hark, E. O.
Lyte.
Berks County T. C. Zimmerman, George F. Baer, H.

A. Muhlenberg.
Lehigh County A. R. Home, Edwin Albright.
Northampton County Paul de Schweinitz, Jeremiah
S.
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,
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
ciety) that this organization
organization
with no
(and
I especially
are not
is
wish to im-
members of our So-
strictly a
Native American
entanglements with
any foreign
power.
We are not less Americans because our ancestors came

from the German Fatherland over 115 years ago, to these
western wilds, settled here cleared the forests, and turned
;
the wilderness into fertile

sions of the savages,
fields,
suffered under the incur-
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.
of the early German settlers were of religious

which opposed the bearing of arms, but it did not
forbid them from nursing the sick and wounded soldiers
faiths
Presidents Annual Address.
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
can army, during the critical period, while they were in

winter quarters upon the bleak hillsides at Valley Forge,
in the
Memorable Winter of 1777-1778.
The German
counties of eastern Pennsylvania were the
granaries of the American

conflict
surged to
Army, whenever
Bancroft has well said of the Germans
"Neither they nor

that
is
the tide of the
this vicinity.
in
Pennsylvania
their descendants have laid claim to all
their due."
They have permitted
gressive neighbors to deny
them
their
more
ag-
proper place even on the
historic page.
It
is
Society
the aim and privilege of the Pennsylvania-German

to
controvert
the
against the race, and place
community
slanders
it
in its
so
ruthlessly
made
proper light before the
at large.
But to return to our history, the first annual meeting

was held at Harrisburg, October 14, 1891 nine papers
were read upon different subjects by prominent speakers;
during the following year 1892, a mid-summer meeting

was held at Mt. Gretna, July 18, 1892, at which a paper
was read upon " The True Heroes of Provincial Pennsylvania."
It
is
to be regretted that these
summer meet-
ings were not kept up.
The
second annual meeting was held
at Lebanon, OctoFour historical papers were read at this

meeting, followed by eight addresses at the banquet In the
evening.
Monday, July 17, 1893, was celebrated as
Pennsylvania-German Day at the Pennsylvania Chatauqua
at Mt. Gretna.
The volume of Proceedings for this
ber 12, 1892.
20
year contains a
list
of
members with
Society.
short biographical
notes wherever obtainable; 164 in number.

also contains the
first
This volume
installment of church records, viz.,
Trinity Lutheran Church of Lancaster.
The
II,
third annual meeting
1893.
was held
at
York, October
Five historical papers were read, one by the
G. Morris, president of the Maryland Historical Society and who was the son of a Revo-
venerable Rev. Dr.
J.
lutionary officer, an " actual son of the Revolution."
In
made at the banquet. In

1894 Pennsylvania-German Day was again observed at
the evening five addresses were
Mt. Gretna, July 19, 1894 95 additional biographical

members were also published in this volume.
The fourth annual meeting was held at Reading, October 3, 1894. There were two papers read at this meeting,
sketches of
the chief addresses, nine in number, were delivered at the
banquet
The
in the
fifth
evening.
annual meeting was held in the historic
of Bethlehem, October
6,
city
It was at this meeting

was adopted. At the
paper and poem read, the
1895.
that the insignia of the Society
meeting there was but a single
principal addresses being at the banquet held at the old
Historic Sun Inn.
Up
to this period the papers presented at the annual
meetings of the Pennsylvania-German Society were of a

disconnected and
sixth annual
more or
less desultory character; at the
meeting of the Society
at Philadelphia,
Octo-
work of the Pennsylvania-German

materialized; this was the beginning of a narrative
ber 25, 1896, the true

Society
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
\
/Presidents Annual Address.
was our fellow member,
It
the late Dr.
21
former
Stille,
prevost of the University of Pennsylvania, historian and
who
scholar,
soil
said:
"Of
all
of Pennsylvania, the
the races which settled on the
German form
a very
important
part of the bed-rock of the civilization of the state."
What
rant
'^f
Mu^h
can a
man know
of that civilization
who
is
igno-
the special history of the Pennsylvania-Germans?
that
is
falsely called history has been written without
knowledge.
SJiCh
It
is
German
this lacking
knowledge which the Pennsylvaniamono-
Society seeks to supply, by this series of
graphs, each one by an acknowledged authority upon his

subject,
and forming a complete volume by
itself;
no other
of the patriotic hereditary societies can show a historical

series
equal to these 25
publications issued under the
auspices of the executive committee of the Pennsylvania-
German
This
Society.
series of
number of
and are quoted
man
our Proceedings
is
to be found in a
the great libraries of our colleges and

as the authority
cities,
upon Pennsylvania-Ger-
history.
number of
written, for
sections of this great work remain to be

which we are looking to some of the younger
members of
this Society.
Abstracts from two sections of this great
work were
read at the annual meeting, October 25, 1896.

1. The "Fatherland" showing the part it bore in the
discovery,
exploration and development of the western
continent, with special reference to this
Commonwealth.
This section consists of 224 pages, 19 plates, with two

maps and numerous Illustrations in the text.
2.
2*
The German exodus
to
England
in
1709, by Frank
22
157
Reid Diffenderffer
Society.
pages, 16 plates and
'
many
illus-
trations in text.
These two monographs are published
in
Volume VII
of our Proceedings, fully illustrated with portraits, maps,
views and facsimiles.

From that time on there have been published one or two
contributions of this great work by some of the moit pro-
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
by our Treasurer, Dr.
J.
E. B. Buckenham, which can be had for the asking.
Part
German Emigration to America, 1 709-1 740,

by Rev. H. E. Jacobs, D.D.
4: Settlement of Germantown, by Hon. Samuel
Part
Part
Part
Pioneer, by Rev. F. J. F. Schantz, D.D.

7: German Emigration into Pennsylvania, 1700-
Part
3:
W.
Pennypacker.
German Emigration from New York, by Rev.

Matthias H. Richards, D.D.
Domestic
Life
1775, Part
2,
of
the
Pennsylvania-German
Redemptioners, by Frank Reid
Diffenderffer.
German
Baptist Brethren or Dunkers, by

George N. Falkenstein.
Part 9: Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania, 1638-1800,
by Theodore E. Schmauk, D.D.
Part 10: Reformed Church in Pennsylvania, by Joseph
H. Dubbs, D.D.
Part
Annual Address.
President's
Part
1 1
The Music
23
of the Ephrata Cloister, by Julius
F. Sachse, Litt.D.
Part 12: Schwenkf elders
Pennsylvania,
in
by H.
W.
Kriebel.
German
Part 13: American History from

J. G. Rosengarten.
Archives, by
Part 14: Daniel Falckner's Curieuse Nachricht, by Julius

F. Sachse, Litt.D.
Pennsylvania-German in the French and Indian

War, by H. M. M. Richards.
Part 16: Wreck of the Ship New Era, by Julius F.
Part 15
Sachse, Litt.D.
Part 17: Gov. Joseph Hiester,
H. M. M.
Richards.
Part 18: Pennsylvania-German

Part 19:
Historical Sketch, by
in
the
Revolutionary
War, by H. M. M. Richards.
Diary of a Voyage from Rotterdam
delphia
in
to Phila-
1728, by Julius F. Sachse, Litt.D.
Part 20
Part 2 1
Part 22
Brief History of the Colony of New Sweden,

by Carolus David Arfwedson, 1825.
An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania by Rush, with annotations by Theodore E. Schmauk, D.D.
Early German American Newspapers, by Daniel
The Lutheran Church
Miller.
Part 23
Rev.
Part 24:
The Wayside
by
Part 25
in
New
Hanover, by
J. J. Kline.
Inns on the Lancaster Roadside,
J. F. Sachse.
Maryland, by D.
W.
In the Settlement of
Nead.
In addition to these monographs there have been printed
24
a
number of
early baptismal, marriage
which are of great value
number of other
Society.
and burial records,
to the genealogist, as well as a
contributions not in the line of our critical
history.
Referring again to our annual meetings, they have been

held
in thirteen different cities In the state
three,
ter
Harrisburg
three,
viz.
Lancas-
Philadelphia three, Allen-
town two, Lebanon two, Reading two, Bethlehem two,
York two and one each at Ephrata, Easton, Norristown,

Germantown and RIegelsville.
Among
the following
vania-German Society
list
of Presidents of the Pennsyl-
will be
found two governors, two
generals, three judges, one naval officer, one brigade sur-
geon, one
U.
S.
postmaster general, one superintendent of
public Instruction, five college presidents, seven prominent
clergymen of different denominations, one great railroad

president and several lawyers and journalists, viz.:
89 1William Henry Egle.

1892 Henry L. Fisher.
1
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
of which any organization
well be
the twenty-five members, honored with the presi-
dential office, fifteen are
one, Rev.
still
Thomas Conrad
have since died;
alive; ten
Porter, D.D., died while in
office.
The membership
of our Society, from a mere handful
at the time of organization, has
members.
It
state alone, as
setts to
is
is
Oregon
grown
to
upwards of 500
not confined to the eastern counties of our

occasionally charged.
in the west;
even down to Peru
in
From Massachu-
from Canada
in the north,
South Arnerica.
In our territories even in the Philippines there are prominent
men, who are proud
to
wear the
rosette
and
insignia
of the Pennsylvania-German Society.
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-
from its organization: twenty-three years

urer and one year as President.
ciety
It is
with great pleasure that
as Treas-
turn over the office and
gavel to one of Lancaster's most honored citizens.
In his
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.
Thanking the members of the Pennsylvania-German

upon me, and
Society for the honors they have bestowed
the executive committee for the support given
me
during
the past twenty-four years, I can but express the hope and
wish that the next quarter of a century may prove even

more prosperous than the past, and that those of our suc-
who
Golden Jubilee may have

pleasant memories of the pioneer " hewers of wood and
drawers of water" who conceived the plan and laid the
foundations for the Pennsylvania-German Patriotic Heredcessors
are present at the
itary Society.
Report of Committee on Bibliogr^^phy.
The Committee on
Dr.
S.
Bibliography, through
its
Chairman,
P. Heilman, reported as follows:
To The Pennsylvania-German
Society
Your Committee on an Index of Pennsylvania-German

Dialect Literature, authorized in the year 1908 to be appointed and actualy appointed in the year 19 10, begs to
report at this time, supplemental to former reports annually
made
since
has been
its first
made on
appointment, that very
little
and valuable project
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
namely, to a subsequent enlargement of the scope of the
Report of Committee on Bibliography.
27
lines suggested by the gentleman authorized

by your Society to review the matter then in manuscript
form, the Rev. T. E. Schmauk, D.D., LL.D., which suggested enlargement required further research and along
new lines, and for the further reason that the Committee's
editor, Prof. H. H. Reichard, Ph.D., in the meantime, and
Index along
for a period of about three years, had taken
up
his resi-
and was exclusively engaged in educational work,

far removed from his former
sources of reference and information as to matter he
needed, not only as to the enlarged lines he was to work
out but as well also towards fully completing the Index as
originally planned and in manuscript, partially completed,
as submitted to your Society at Harrisburg in 191 1.
We can now, however, report that Prof. Reichard has
returned to the east, and again is in touch with, and near
to, his former supply sources of reference and information
material, that he is again actively at work on the Index
dence,
in
the State of Illinois,
project, that he
pedition,
and
is
is
tively short time,
pushing the work with
all possible ex-
giving assurance that within a compara-
probably soon after
this
annual meeting
of the Society, the manuscript of the Index as originally
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
Dialect Literature as comprehensive,
and accurate
complete
as the finished manuscript shortly to be sub-
we know positively will be and our belief that the

delays incident to the compiling and additional research
mitted
28
work required
as to this
Society.
Index project will be
bers of your Society

the Index after
its
when they come
to study
com-
fully
pensated in the satisfaction that will be afforded the
mem-
and peruse
completion and publication.
Respectfully submitted,
S.
Heilman,
P.
Chairman.
Lebanon,
Pa.,
November
13, 1914.
Election of Officers.
The
tive
following nominations, as suggested by the Execu-
Committee, were presented by Dr. Schmauk: Presi-
dent,
Hon. William U. Hensel, LL.D.,
caster,
Pa.;
Vice-Presidents,
M.D., LL.D., of Reading,
Doylestown, Pa.; Treasurer,
M.D., of Chestnut
Hill,
William
Pa.,
J.
Litt.D., of
Lan-
Muhlenberg,
F.
Hon. Harman Yerkes, of

E. Burnett Buckenham,
Pa; Executive Committee, Rev.
L. Kryder Evans, D.D., of Pottstown, Pa., Charles R.

Roberts, Esq., of AUentown, Pa., Julius F. Sachse, Litt.D.,
of Philadelphia, Pa.
On
motion duly made and seconded, the nominations
were closed and the Secretary was instructed
to cast the
ballot of the Society for the above-mentioned nominees.
The
Secretary having cast the formal ballot of the
Society for the said nominees, the President declared
them
the duly elected officers for the ensuing year.
The meeting was
then
adjourned
till
half-past
two
o'clock in the afternoon to partake of the luncheon ten-
dered by the newly-elected President of the Society, Hon.-
William U. Hensel,
at the
Hamilton Club of Lancaster.
THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY.
WILLIAM UHLER HENSEL.

B.
DEC.
4,
1851
D. FEB. 27, 1915.
TWENTY-SIXTH PRESIDENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY.
Election of Officers.
29
Luncheon.
The
Hamilton Club was crowded

with a happy company of Pennsylvania-Germans and their
friends, gathered to enjoy the hospitality of Hon. William
U. Hensel, the newly-elected President of the Pennsylvania-
German
rathskeller of the
Society.
corn-stalks,
The
rustic
decorations,
consisting of
pumpkins and other products of Lancaster
County rural
life,
contributed not a
little
enjoyment
to the
of the following typical Pennsylvania-German menu.
Menu.
'-
Scrapple
Liver and Onions
Sauer Kraut
Schnitz and Knepf
Tripe and Oysters
Red
Souse
Beets
Dutch Cheese
Smear Case and Apple Butter
Cider
Coffee
All the ladies and gentlemen fortunate enough to attend

were unanimous in declaring the luncheon one of the most
enjoyable and successful social entertainments ever tendered the members of the Society. The only thing that
marred the perfect enjoyment of the occasion was the
absence of the host Dr. Hensel, the state of whose health
had
necessitated a prolonged sojourn in the South.
All
present united in the sincere hope and prayer that he might
speedily be restored to his usual full measure of health
and strength.
30
Afternoon
Session.
After the delightful luncheon

Society reconvened
of
Hamilton Club the

room of the First Re-
at the
in the lecture
formed Church and

tion
Society.
paper on "The CondiDuring Braddock's Expedition,"
listened to a
Pennsylvania
presented by Dr. Julius F. Sachse.
The
reading of this paper was followed by a series of
Germantown, presented and
stereopticon views of old
ex-
plained by Dr. Sachse.
One of the most interesting and Instructive features of

the afternoon's programme was the exhibition of " Stiegel
-Glass " with a delightful descriptive talk by Mrs. Albert
K. Hostetter, of Lancaster, Pa., the wife of the
first
Vice-
Mrs. Hostetter has gathered

"Stiegel Glass" in the
United States, of which collection she showed many rare
and beautiful specimens. The explanatory lecture proved
Mrs. Hostetter to be an enthusiastic collector and a
thorough student of the subject. After this unique intelPresident of the Society.
one of the
finest
lectual treat the

festivities
collections of
meeting was adjourned to prepare for the
of the evening.
Reception and Banquet.
A goodly company of
and gentlemen gathered In

Hamilton Club and spent a
ladies
the spacious quarters of the
delightful hour In social Intercourse preliminary to the
annual banquet, which was set for seven o'clock In the

banquet-hall of the
Hamilton Club.
Afte_rgrace_Md been said by. R^^^^^^

LL.D., the following menu was enjoyed by the assembled
guests
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
Benjamin M'. Nead, Esq., of Harrisburg, Pa., served

and Mayor Frank B. McClain, of Lancas-
as toastmaster
ter,
entertained the
company with
several songs rendered
which wise and witty words were spoken

by Mayor McClain, Dr. Henry H. Appel, Dr. H. M. M.
Richards, Ulysses S. Koons, Esq., and Henry S. Borneman, Esq. The banquet concluded with a silent toast to
in fine style, after
memory of
Thus ended
the
Col.
Thomas
C.
Zimmerman.
the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the

Pennsylvania-German Society. As the large company of
guests slowly dispersed, they were unanimous In the enthusiastic
expressions of their appreciation of the hospitality
of President Hensel, the Hamilton Club and the citizens

of Lancaster in general.
programme
The interesting and

many comments
also called forth
instructive
of praise.
Intellectually as well as socially, therefore, the Lancaster
meeting of 19 14 must be regarded as one of the very best

of the many good meetings of the Pennsylvania-German
Society.
Biograpbical Sketches of eceaseb
flDembers of the pcnnQ^lvnnm^
(5erman Societie
Hon. George
F.
Baer, LL.D.
Hon. James A. Beaver, LL.D.

Hon. Maurice C. Eby.
William Laubach, Esq.
Prof. Lewis
S.
Shimmell, Ph.D.
Hon. George Franklin Huff.

George Rueger Oberholtzer.
Thomas William
Saeger.
Christian Edgar Titzel.
William Weis.
Col.
Thomas
C.
Zimmerman, L.H.D.
[See minute in the Proceedings prepared by Special
Committee.]
BS
GEORGE
B.
SEPT.
F.
26, 1842;
BAER, LL.D.
D.
APRIL
26, 1914.
PRESIDENT PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY
1893.
Biographical Sketches of Deceased Members.
Hon. George
Hon. George
F. Baer,
35
LL.D.
Baer belonged to the fourth generation

His direct ancestor,
of his family in the United States.
Christopher Baer( Bar), came from Zweibruecken, Germany, with two brothers, Milchoir and Johannes, in the
ship Phoenix, from Rotterdam, in 1743, arriving in Philadelphia, September 30 of that year. He settled in Northampton County with his wife, Katherine Wingert, and
there purchased a large quantity of land, giving a farm to
each of his six married children. Jacob, the youngest son,
was born in what is now Whitehall Township, Lehigh
County, Pennsylvania, in 1761, married, and in 1800 moved
to a farm in Maryland, near Mount Savage Station, Allegheny County, where he resided until his death. Major
Solomon Baer, his son by a second wife, Mary Elizabeth
Hersch, was born in Lehigh County (then Northampton)
in 1794, and died in Somerset County, Pennsylvania,
January 12, 1882. He married Anna Maria, daughter
of George Baker, who was born February 2, 1797, and
died October 5, 1888.
He served as constable for several years and also justice of the peace, and held every rank
in the militia from captain to brigade inspector.
George Frederick Baer, the eighth child of Solomon
and Anna Maria (Baker) Baer, was born in Somerset
County, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1842.
He attended
F.
Somerset Institute
until the
age of thirteen, when he entered
the office of the Somerset Democrat, working as a typesetter for
two years.
Then he
studied another year at
36
Society.
Somerset Institute, served as chief clerk and bookkeeper

at the Ashtola Mills, about ten miles from Johnstown, for
another year, and in the fall of i860, entered the Sopho-
more
class
of Franklin and Marshall College, at Lan-
was interrupted by the Civil

War. With his brother Harry he purchased the newspaper on which he had served his boyhood apprenticeship.
The Somerset Democrat, and soon was left in sole charge of
it as his brother became an officer in company B, 54th RegiDuring this period he
ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.
caster.
His course
at college
continued his studies as he intended to return to college
and complete
his course.
In August, 1862, he raised a
company of volunteers which was mustered into the United

States service with young Baer, not yet twenty years of
His regiment joined the Army of the
age, as captain.
Potomac at the second battle of Bull Run and fought at
Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
Baer was mustered out of service
May
26,
Captain
1863, and
returned to Somerset.
He at once began to read law with his brothers William

and Herman and was admitted to the bar in April, 1864.
On January 22, 1868, he was admitted to the bar of Berks
County, establishing his office and residence in Reading,
In 1870
Pennsylvania. Here his practice grew rapidly.
he became counsel to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and later became a director of the same. About this
time he became a trusted confidential legal adviser in Pennsylvania of J. Pierpont Morgan and was prominent in the
reorganization of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company in 1 85 3 of which cornpany^^^^^^^^^
dent in 1 90 1.
In the words of another: "The entire system has prospered under President Baer's wise conservative policies, and he will go down in history as one of the
J

great railroad executives of his time."
He was
37
also largely
identified with the Reading Iron Company, the Temple

Iron Company, the Pennsylvania Steel and the Cambria
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
the property of Reading.

office
He also
erected the
first
modern
building in Reading, a seven-story structure of eighty
rooms.
During his entire public life Mr. Baer's services as

and platform speaker were in frequent demand.
His printed addresses delivered before colleges and learned
societies, at the dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors'
Monument at Allentown, and before popular audiences, all
show the thoughtful student of men and affairs, in whom
culture and logic were happily blended.
He also took a
deep interest in Franklin and Marshall College, served as
a trustee from 1872, and as the head of its board from
1894 to the time of his death. In 1886 the college conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
(LL.D.) and in 1895 he was chosen Vice-President of the
Alumni Association.
Although an ardent Democrat, he never accepted public office, was a strong " Gold Democrat," and by his " Appeal to Democrats " vigorously opposed William J. Bryan
lecturer
in his "silver heresy."

-"
in 1866 Mr. Baer married Emily,
daiTghfer of John"'
O. Kimmel, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, who was a most

worthy and helpful companion in the active and varied
interests of her prominent husband.
From this union
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
^^^
died April 26, 19 14.
As we
survey the
life
and achievements of George
Baer, the most prominent trait in his character shows

in his
and
was
a tireless worker,
life illustrated the spirit
of one of his best
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
he became one of the leading citizens of his state

G. T. E.
his nation.
B.
OCT.
21, 1837;
D. JAN. 31, 1914.
PRESIDENT PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY
1905.
39
Hon. James Addams Beaver, LL.D.

James Addams Beaver was born
at
Mlllerstown, Perry-
County, Pa., October 21, 1837. His father, Jacob Beaver

(b. Nov. 28, 1805-d. Aug. 17, 1840), was a son of Peter
Beaver (b. Dec. 25, 1782-d. Aug. 26, 1849), who mar-
and was a son of George Beaver

1755-d. Jan. 1836), who married Catharine
Kieff er and was a son of George Beaver.
ried Elizabeth Gilbert
(b.
May
I,
The mother of the subject of this sketch was Ann Eliza

Addams (b. Jan. 30, 1812-d. June 29, 1880), whose
paternal grandmother was Barbara Ruth, of Berks County,
and her maternal grandmother was Lydia Miller (b. Jan.

2, 1791-d. March 5, 18 19), of the same county, whose
mother was Elizabeth Feather, the daughter of Maria or
Mary Levan.
The Beavers came from
Alsace
In
1740, the Kieff ers
came from Germany in 1748, and the Gilberts also came

from Germany. Peter Beaver was a clergyman in the
Methodist Episcopal Church and George Beaver served
in
the 4th Pennsylvania Battalion under Col. Anthony-
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
Lancaster "County, Pa., about 1761;
James Addams Beaver was graduated from Jefferson

College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1856, read law and was ad-
mitted to the bar
when
in
Society.
1858, practicing from 1859 to 1861,
he entered the service of his country and became
Second Lieutenant of the Second Pennsylvania Infantry.

October 21, 1861, he was appointed Lieutenant-Col-
On
onel of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry
tember
8,
and on Sep-
1862, he became Colonel of the 148th Pennsyl-
He
was breveted Brigadier-General of

Volunteers for highly meritorious and distinguished convania Infantry.
duct throughout the campaign, particularly for valuable
Cold Harbor while commanding a brigade, and

was honorably discharged, December 22, 1864. He was
-shot through the body at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863,
services at
was shot
in the side at
Petersburg, Va., in June, 1864, and
Ream's Station, August 24, 1864.

from the war he resumed the practice
of law at Bellefonte, Pa., and married Mary A., the
daughter of Hon. H. N. McAllister on December 26,
lost a leg 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
1886, and served as Judge
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
National Republican Convention
in
1880, vice-moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1888 and 1895, a
member
mission to investigate the
War
of the President's
Department
in
Com-
1898, and
a delegate to the General Missionary Conference, Edin-
burgh, in 19 10.
He
received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws
41
(LL.D.) from Hanover College, Indiana, Dickinson Coland the University of Edinburgh, Scot-
lege, Pennsylvania,
land.
Governor Beaver was elected to membership in the

Pennsylvania-German Society, January 11, 1893, and
served as president of the same in 1905.
G. T. E.
42
Society.
Hon. Maurice C. Eby.
bom at Middletown, PennsylHe was the eldest son of David
Maurice C. Eby was
May, 1846.
vania, in
Rupley Eby and Elizabeth Gross Eby. Before he was one

year old, his parents removed with him to Harrisburg,
which city continued to be his home for the remainder of
his life.
He
was graduated from Lafayette College, and after

was absent for
time
abroad
was spent
Most
of
his
more than three years.
at Geneva, Switzerland, and Carlsruhe, Baden. To pleasure and sight-seeing he added the more serious business of
acquiring a practical knowledge of the German language,
visiting at intervals many of the old world cities.
He began his business career at Harrisburg as a merleaving college he took a tour abroad, and
chant
As
in
87 1.
young man he was
the patron of
withal a practical reformer.
he could not endure the
ill
manly
sports,
and
lover of animate nature,
treatment or abuse of the faith-
burden and the domestic animals about him.

He was officially appointed an agent for the prevention of
cruelty to children and animals, and he did not hesitate to
enforce the law against cruelty to dumb animals and the ill
treatment of children.
He was known as a practical and
ful beast of
kind-hearted agent of these societies.

In public life he
was
to a degree a'ctiv
1893, 4 and
5,
2\.s
Mayor
arid"'
Harrisburg during the years

he served conscientiously and faithfully,
chief executive of the city of
MAURICE
B.
MAY, 1846;
D.
C.
EBY.
APRIL
4,
1914.
43
no other aim for the rest of his

"To remain a good citizen,
obeying all the laws of the Commonwealth and the ordinances of the city; determined to perform a good deed
retiring gracefully, with
life, as
daily,
he himself put
and make
it,
than
a blade of grass
grow where none grew
before."
Mr. Eby was an active member

Board of Trade, and became widely
ipal
affairs.
He
of the Harrisburg
interested in munic-
served as president of the Board of
Trade during the year 1901, and remained
interested in
the affairs of Harrisburg until his death.
He
was
a lover of the past,
everything that pertained to
it.
and an absorbing reader of

He loved to wander through
the foothills of history, but never arose to the higher planes
of research and constructive work, although he was a valuable
adviser
and
instructive
conversationalist
in
that
domain.
He
was an active member of the Historical Society of

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for upwards of twentyfive years.
He was one of the founders, and for a number
of years a faithful
member
of the executive committee of
the Pennsylvania-German Society.
Mr. Eby was unmarried.

His humane
traits
He
had
scores of friends.
disposition, large-heartedness,
endeared him to
all.
He
died, after
and hospitable
some period of
acute suffering, on Saturday, April 4, 19 14, at the age of

sixty-eight.
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-
man (b. April 12, 1809-d. April

of Abraham Beidelman (b. Nov.
30, 1895), a daughter

26, 1772-d. Sept. 11,
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.
boy William Laubach attended the district

school and worked on his father's farm.
At the age of
fifteen he took a position in a country store at Kesslersville,
where he remained until 1853, when he came to Easton,
Pa., and entered the store of the late Jacob Hay, then a
prominent retail dealer in dry goods, with whom he remained about five years, after which he spent a year as
clerk in the establishment of Jacob Rader, at that time one
of the leading merchants of Easton.
On April 6, i860,
he opened a dry goods store in a room 12 by 40 feet in
size, on a part of the site the extensive establishment now
occupies.
From this humble beginning the business grew,
more space was needed, one property after the other was
While
45
Laubach and Sons

occupies a business home with a frontage of one hundred
and seven feet and a floor space of more than sixty thouadded, until
sand square
now
the firm of William
In 1908 the
feet.
five sons of the
founder of
the business were taken into the partnership and the firm
was incorporated under the name of William Laubach and

Sons.
i860, Mr. Laubach married Mary

19,
of
the late George and Annie Horn, of
daughter
Frances,
Easton, Pa. This union was blessed with twelve children.
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
mandery, No. 19, Knights Templar, of Easton, and Rajah

Temple, of Reading.
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
everything which promised to uplift the business, indus-
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
died July 30, 19 14.
joined the Pennsylvania-German Society October
25, 1900.
G. T. E.
46
Society.
Prof. Lewis S. Shimmell, Ph.D.
born September 13, 1852, In

Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pa., was a son of
Levi Oberholtzer Shimmell (b. 1826-d. 1903), whose
father John Shimmell (b, i8oo-d. i860) married Hannah
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.
1824-d. 1877) whose father, John Slifer (b. i8oo-d.

1859), married a Miss Shelly (b. 1802-d. 1867). John
Slifer's father and grandfather were also named John and
was Henry, who was bom in 1700

and died in 1796. George Shimmell came to America in
1753, and Henry Slifer came in 1739; both came from
the greatgrandfather
Switzerland.
The
subject of this sketch studied at the
Wadsworth,
Ohio, Seminary, and was graduated from the Millersville

State
Normal
School, in the normal course in 1875 and in
the scientific course in 1877.
In 1878 he married Sarah Bare, of Bareville, Lancaster
County, Pa.
In 1886, while superintendent of the schools of Hunt-
ingdon, Pa., he established
"to a position in the
high schbbr of Hafrisburg, Pa., whicH
most satisfactory manner for nearly

In 1900 he completed postgraduate
position he filled in a
a score of years.
The School Gazette, of which

In 1893 he was elected
many years.
he was the editor for
"
47
pedagogy, constitutional history and American

history, for which the University of Pennsylvania conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His
thesis on " Border Warfare in Pennsylvania During the
Revolution " has been widely circulated. He also wrote
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
48
Society.
Hon. George Franklin Huff.

John Frederick von Hoof emigrated From Berlin, Germany, about the year 1754. He was born July 8, 1734,
and died April 26, 18 16. His son was George Huff, who
was born August, i, 1779, and died February 24, 1845,
and married Anna Mull. From this union sprang George
Huff (b. 18 13
d. 1858), the father of the subject of
this sketch.
The mother was Carolyne (b. September 5,
1 8 17), daughter of Henry K. Boyer, whose father was
Jacob Boyer (b. 1754 d. February 11, 1796).
George Franklin Huff was born at Norristown, Pa.,
July 16, 1842.
He
received his preliminary education in
the public schools of MIddletown, Pa., and later at Al-
toona. Pa., where he learned a trade In the car shops of

the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company.
At an
he entered the banking house of William
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.
married Henrietta, daughter of the
late
producers of gas and steam coal
was
also largely interested in
in the
many
United
States.
49
He
other business enter-
prises in various parts of Pennsylvania, in addition to his
banking business in Greensburg, in which he had been

engaged since his youth. He was also president of the
Westmoreland Hospital Association.
In 1884 he was elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania,
in which he represented the Thirty-ninth District for four
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.
elected to the Fifty-second Congress
the Twenty-first District, then
eighth Congress.
After a
life
of such constant and varied activities he
died April 18, 19 12.
He
was
Society
elected a
November
member of
i,
the Pennsylvania-German
1906.
mes^^sBBm
50
Society.
George R. Oberholtzer.
The
ancestor of George R. Oberholtzer
Palaflnate and arrived in America
came from the

from Rotterdam on
The earhest name found on Mr.

Oberholtzer's application for membership in the PennSeptember 30, 1727.
sylvania-German Society was that of Samuel Oberholtzer

or Oberholtz, who died in 1748.
He was the son of Martin Oberholtzer, who died in 1774.
Martin's father was
was born March 25, 1764, and died

October 2, 1833. The father of Martin Oberholtzer was
John Oberholser (observe the spelling), who was born
February 28, 1793, and died January 24, 1875. The son
of John Oberholser was Isaac Kurtz Oberholser, born
May 21, 1836, and the father of George Rueger Oberalso called Martin,
holtzer, the subject of this sketch,
George Rueger Oberholtzer was born September 20,

1867, at Terre Hill, Lancaster County, Pa., and after he
had received the usual preliminary education in the schools
of his native county,
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
Saeger, spelled also Sager and Seger,
as
found
of
trians.
In 1402 Burki Sager was a councillor
i" ^SS2)
John Sager was Governor of Arberg.
in
is
Germany and Switzerland as far back

1388, when Conrad Sager of Zug was killed by Aus-
in old records
in
Bern and
John Nicholas Saeger, born in Reichenbach, Bavaria,

1694, became the ancestor of the greater part of the
With
Anna Barbara,
family
in
born
1705, and their seven children he sailed from Rot-
in
this
country.
his wife,
Richmond and Elizabeth and

on September 28, 1733.
He
settled upon a tract of 250 acres along the Coplay Creek
in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania,
terdam, Holland,
arrived in
in the ship
Philadelphia
which he secured by a warrant dated March 28, 1737.

The plant of the Lehigh Portland Cement Co. is now
located on this land.
This land he farmed until his death,
when, by will dated October 22, 1753, and probated February 5, 1762, it became the property of his two oldest
sons.
He was a Lutheran in faith and worshipped at the
Jordan Lutheran and at the Egypt churches. He died
in
January, 1762, survived by ten of his thirteen children.

Jacob Saeger was born October 29, 1774, and was a
farmer on a part of the old Saeger tract in Whitehall

Township. In 1 8 15 he removed la -Allentown, PennsyI-__
vania, where, with his brother Daniel, he erected a grist-
and engaged in mercantile enterprises. He married

Margaret, daughter of Martin Mickley, with whom he
mill
52
had
eight children
Society.
Sarah, Catharine, Charles, Ann, Wil-
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
H!e received his
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
a classic in English literature.
graduation he ac-
cepted a position in the Allentown Rolling Mills, but later
went
to Duluth,
Minn., where for several years he had
charge of a grain elevator.
town for
Upon
his return to Allen-
number of years he engaged
in
the milling
business.
On
January 26, 1875, he married Florence Troxell of
Allentown,
Pa.
He
died
November
Saeger had travelled extensively
Holy Land and was
in
19,
19 13.
Mr.
Europe, Egypt and the
a member of St. John's Lutheran

Church of Allentown, the Livingston Club, the Lehigh
Country Club, the Lehigh County Historical Society, the
Pennsylvania-German Society and the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
53
Thomas W. Saeger was
a Christian gentleman, cultured and refined, fond of literature, art and music. As
a business man, he was keen and energetic, the very soul

of honor; as a citizen, he was interested in all that made
for the progress and the uplift of the community.
He
man of deeply religious nature, well

acquainted with the doctrines of the Lutheran Church,
which he several times represented at the meetings of the
was, moreover, a
Minlsterium of Pennsylvania and the General Council of

North America. In politics he was a Republican, but reserved the right to think for himself. For many years he
was a very useful and enthusiastic member of the board of
Muhlenberg College.
Mr. Saeger was elected to membership
vania-German Society January 15, 1897.
trustees of
in the
Pennsyl-
G. T. E.
54
Society.
Christian Edgar Titzel.
The
ancestors of Christian
Reiken or Recken
in
in
Edgar Titzel came from
Germany and landed
in
Philadelphia
1751.
John Jonas Rupp, born November 3, 1729, died May

21, 1 80 1, had a son Martin Rupp, born September 15,
1769, died July 18, 1843, whose daughter Mary Rupp,
born
May
Titzel,
10, 18 10, died October i, 1882, married a

and became the mother of John Martin Titzel,
March 19, 1832, died June 16, 1905, who in turn

became the father of the subject of this sketch.
Christian Edgar Titzel was born at Irwin Station,
Westmoreland County, Pa., May 4, 1875. He was manager of the Lancaster County Railway and Light Company and was a prominent member of the First Reformed
Church of Lancaster, Pa., as well as a highly esteemed
citizen of the community. At the time of his death he was
a trustee of the First Reformed Church.
He died of cerebral hemorrhage at the early age of 37
years, on March 30, 19 13.
Mr. Titzel was chosen a member of the Pennsylvaniaborn
German
Society
November
5,
1908.
G. T. E.
55
William Weis,
The
many,
ancestor of William
in
1852.
Weis came from Baden, Ger-
His grandfather on
the paternal side,
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.
He had been elected to associate membership

Pennsylvania-German Society October 20, 1899.
in
the
G. T. E.
vnnin:
THE GERMAN INFLUENCE
IN ITS
SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
TRarrative an5 Critical Ibistors
PREPARED BY AUTHORITY OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY
PART XXVII
THE DIARIUM OF
M AGISTER JOHANNES KELPIUS
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
publication Committee.
JULIUS
F.
SACHSE, Utt.D.
DANIEL W. NEAD, M.D.

J. E. B. BUCKENHAM, M.D.
JOHANNES KELPIUS.
FROM THE ORIGINAL CANVAS BV OR. CHRISTOPHER WITT, NOW
IN
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
XTbe 2)iatium
of
/Iftaîstec
Sôbannes IRelpius
WITH ANNOTATIONS BY
JULIUS FRIEDRICH SACHSE
Part XXVII of a Narrative and Critical History

PUBLISHED BY
The Pennsylvania-German Society
LANCASTER,
1917
PA.
Copyrighted
BY THE
1917
ipennsslraniaeCetman Soctets.
PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTER, PA.
THE JOURNAL OF
KELPIUS.
Magister Johannes Kelpius, the

leader of the band of Ger-
man
Pietists
who came
to
these shores in the year of
1694, and settled on

the banks of the WIssahickon,
grace
will always
remain one of the
most picturesque characters

of
our early
German
Pennsylvania-
history; the
more
so
on account of a certain air of

mystery and romance which
has thus far enshrouded his personality.^
Kelpius and his company of German Pietists located
1
For a
full
account of Kelpius, see "
The German
Pennsylvania," Philadelphia, 1895, pp. 219-250.

5
Pietists of Provincial
The Pennsylvania'German
6
themselves
hills
in
what was then unbroken wilderness upon the
overlooking the Wissahlckon Creek, a small stream
which winds
until
Society.
it
Its
mingles
way through rocky

its
crystal waters
forest dells
and valleys
with the Schuylkill River.
Changing the scene to the present day, the wilderness

where Kelpius and his followers located in the last decade
of the seventeenth century, and erected their tabernacle, is
now
a built-up part of the city of Philadelphia,
known
the twenty-first ward, while the Wissahlckon with
romantic
and rugged
dells, valleys
hills is
as
its
now a part of
known far
Philadelphia's great natural pleasure ground,
and wide
as
Fairmount Park.
Unfortunately Kelpius,
written record of the great
in
his
modesty,
left
but
little
work performed by him during
the fourteen long years that he lived on the banks of the
How
romantic Wissahlckon.
prove the morals and
earnestly he sought to im-
spiritual condition of the
rude and
heterogeneous population that was then scattered through
shown by the many traditions and

have survived for two centuries.
eastern Pennsylvania,
legends that
By reason of
is
his scholarly attainments,
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,
maglster on the Wissahlckon stands out In bold relief as a
prominent example of piety and disinterestedness.

There can be but little doubt that this devout scholar,
who thus voluntarily banished

home and friends had many
himself from the fatherland

difficulties to
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
conflicting interests to equalize and,
The Journal of
Kelpius.
Cf the
at the
^ Mr
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twte
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jKii/fLiter
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,
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trnf/iy/ha^fc
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English Title Page to Kelpius' Ms.
Jyay
Hymn
Book.
upon more than one
Society,
occasion, stubborn
minds
to combat.
internal dissensions threatened the fraternity

always left to Kelpius to use the olive branch.
When
it
was
manuSo far as known to the present writer, but two

come down to us;
script volumes of Magister Kelpius have
p
'--
ffiffy-
/'/
/} r^.-f^s'" ^-v^.
Fac-Simile of Title Page of the Kelpius Journal.
one a volume of hymns and muslc,^ the other, which is the

Latin
subject of this paper, is his journal or diarium in
to
with its daily entries during the voyage from London
This commences on the first day of JanPennsylvania.
taken
uary, 1694, and ends on June 24, the passage having
day
seventh
the
on
starting
ten weeks, the actual voyage
of February.
^
He
Ibid., pp. 234-243.
divides his entries into six periods
and
The Journal of
Kelpiiis.
three weeks, which covers seventeen pages of the journal;

after the following introduction,
from Seneca,
tation
CXtrii na^ru.
is
rumv
dicltruY Jed wCtt^
(A ubi CUfi^
finni
eyij
yri
Ofru. cJt
which
is
apparently a quo-
headed:
d tiote/t
Xhnâh'ik. rn^%St^,
terrain trCnvO
a^r*tC4^nA.
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"
" I cannot go
beyond
be banished outside of
Seneca De Refor."
my
country:
this.
My
the one of all
it is
country
is
but only a locality.
Into whatever land I come,
own: none
but only another country.
wherever
exile.
-trained
is
it is
The
first
exile,
well
for
if
one
is
wise he
great principle of virtue
is,
is
as
no one can
said, a
come
My
a traveller
he
not forbidden to me,
if
my
into
country
is
foolish
an
mind gradually
to barter visible and transitory things, that
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."
afterwards be able to give them up.
his
country
his
is
sweet
country; indeed
10
The
may
be called a
Society.
and sets forth that

the following are ''Literal copies of letters to friends in
and out of Pennsylvania, sent from the wilderness by
next leaf
Johanno Kelpio, Transylvania,
The Good
title,
694-1 703,
4, 5, 6, 7."
Ship " Sara Maria," Capt. Tanner, Master.

{Sara Mariabonae Spei.
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^
the 7th of Jan.,
I,
convinced by God, resolved upon
going to America,
my
companions being: Henry
Bernard Coster,^^ Daniel Falkner,^^ Daniel Lutke,
John
Seelig,
Ludwig Bidermann,^^
as well as about
40 Other companions, some of whom were numbered

(mustered), and others convicted by God, in Ger-
many, had
On
February
as yet in the preceding year, resolved upon that voyage.

Feb. 7th I engaged for them the ship, " sarah maria," of
good hope, Captain John Tanner, an Englishman, the

hired at seven (7) English
^1
of Silver,
which
Henrich Bernhard Koster (Coster-Kuster).
early pioneer and Evangelist
cf.
"
German
For
vessel being
paid out on board

full
account of this
Pietists in Provincial
Pennsyl-
vania," pp. 251-298,
to
1-
Daniel Falckner.
13
Ludwig
Ibid., pp. 299-3341.
Christian Biederman
was
the
break his voluntary resolution of celibacy.
member of the community

Almost immediately upon his
first
Gerraantown he married Maria Margaretha, the daughter of

of Rev. Johann Jacob Zimmermann.
Cf. " German Pietists,"
pp. 460-472. They had been fellow passengers across the ocean.
arrival in
the
widow
II
12
Society.
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The Journal of
Kelpius.
13
the ship on the 14th of this month, having embarked on the 13th,
but the rest had embarked on the 12th.
This
first
day was
me
by
people,
passed tranquilly on the
(in this
fall a dispute arose
H-8
J^
manner)
Thames
river,
by our
At
night-
for the greatest part.
concerning the arrangement of the beds, which
(dispute) kindled the zeal in P.
G.
Germanis
(puellis,
German
deemed
(zelum
The lewdness might have
girls?), so that disappointed in the pacific union of heart, I
my
zeal for obtaining a single bed the heaven of Christ,
and coelum, being here a

increased
brought
(?)
de mots).
je
Maria
until
a spinster, lone
(solitaria,
an Ethiopian virgin,
in
who would
concerning the purity of an European maiden, before she con-
self
But George was
sented to marriage.
the condition forbids
illness,
manner he
The
me
afflicted
with a most severe
here, enough, wherefore in this
slept alone.
second day
secunde
2nd
&
4.
15th Feb. was lucky for us (secunda and
But
lucky, another je de mots).
destined fatal.
My
nate outcome.
Falkner said the same of himself.
sand-banks^'* by a contrary
these,
we
perished
sought safety
if
the third
was j^^
apprehensive mind presaged evils with a fortu-
by the impress-gang of the king.
first
in
We were visited
Then we were
and turbulent wind
driven towards
wishing to escape
our anchor, whereby
we
should have
made it, that

which, under our ship, would have
not Divine providence had
weight of the metal,

the
woman)
previously inform her-
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
All, saving a few, feared the end
Captain having
fired off four
and committed the
vessel
the sailors were despairing.

is
to
at hand.
who were
We
furled the
near to the rescue, but took pity on none of

sails
was
cannon, called those

us.
the turbulent billows, whilst
had hold (of) the turtle-dove, that
not to be deserted, about the middle (waist) from the begin-
(Pagf 2
ot 9^0.)
ning (Feb. 16) of the storm, a divine witness, when already

Improbably one of the shoals known as the Goodwin Sands.
saw
16.
vr
14
our pilot despairing
the
in
admonished, likewise, that
God,
certain aid of
my
my
held
Then
The
us."
"Have
matters.
He
pressed
everywhere, on
Him
my
(divinely)
for the
was not
hands and said
shall I hope."
"
Said,
drive the ship
away from
we
praised
third time,
ignorant of divine
so
me
(No sooner had
The storm began to
alone can help
done
the sand-banks into deep water,
God
in safety.
Meanwhile
when
soon as
was admonished
my
began to collect
for the 3rd time, inwardly,
where
Coster, with
God (and
the rest, had been pouring forth strong supplication to

indeed, about that time,
certainly will save
God
he said these words than they were fulfilled).
casting anchor,
and turned
All were despairing
God, who
faith in
for he
rejoiced,
pilot
was
about to journey into another
as if
being admonished
said to the pilot:
was admonished
intent on other matters
peace in turn.
and invoked the name of Jesus,

life.
when
distress,
thoughts for myself.
him
a second time, but seeing

I
midst of our
by bearing witness concerning the most
should raise his faith and hope, but being
agitated myself, I kept
away from me,
Society.
thoughts) as
and addressed
the pilot, he had changed his entreaty to a prayer of thanksgiving,
being sure his wish had been granted, though not knowing what
just
I
now was
being done by us (with us).
went below,
glad tidings.
rejoicing in our deliverance,
I told
announce the
to
them what had been done by me
just a little
while ago, and they, in turn, related their experience; therefore

I
no longer wondered
(their prayers
at the divine virtue in
had so powerfully aided me).
and explained the matter more fully
me
I
while
who began
to the pilot,
praise the Lord with folded hands, especially when

still
that I
Going below
for the
God.
time, I also disclosed this matter to
with the
Praised be the
spirit. of
name
of
my
brethren,
to
I added, that
more dangers were imminent {threatening), but
fully convinced of the final aid of
filled
I prayed,
went up on deck
when
was
2nd
Falkner,
God, poured forth fervent thanksgiving:

Hallelujah!
the Lord for ever! Amen!.
The Journal
(^m
15
3 of si?s.)
The
who,
of Kelphis.
fourth day the Sabbath was,
in
this
quietude,
persevered
in
a Sabbath for us,
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
three of the best attendants of our pilot (captain) under pretense

of the Swedish nation (for
won
Swedes they were) had not divine favor
over unto us the hearts of the soldiers; for Coster had pre-
By
viously poured forth a most fervent prayer.
the aforesaid provi-
dence, those impressors carried off from a neighboring vessel, that
was going
Thereafter
to
to
sail
we were
America with
us,
three
Belgian
sailors.
happily borne by a gentle breeze from out of
that dangerous place to one
more
secure,
and
having cast
there,
we remained through the night.

On the 6th day, we vainly sought for our lost anchor, but, a
great calm arising, we were obliged to rest, making up for the
delay by reading the Bible and dissertations on sacred subjects. At
night we were in turn visited by the impress-gang, who carried off
anchor,
one of our younger servants, yet we, in turn, acquired a former

servant and sailor of the king's.
On
the 7th day,
we were
borne by a favorable wind over (past)
rocky and sandy ledges and on the right, leaving behind for ever
the shore of England.
About
some men-of-war with 22 other

Prince
Ludwig
of
even-tide there approached to us

vessels,
bearing and accompanying
Baden from England
casting anchor beyond the rocks,
we
to
Holland.
slept securely
At
night,
and soundly
(on either ear).
The
and
8th day
rest, for,
place called "

that
(i.
e.
the 7th of our sailing), brought Sabbath
happily, a south-wind blowing,
Downs
were going
" by the English,
to sail to
we were borne
where the
America with
us,
to a
rest of the ships
were assembled.
[^
i6
Society.
(lâffe 4 of Q^gi.)
(Period Second)
t
February
At
that port
(Downs) ^^ we awaited
for about 2
weeks for a favor-
and the royal mandate, shortening the long, weary hours

by dissertations on sacred subjects and by study of the Bible.
able wind,
Meanwhile we sent letters to London and to Germany to Tob.

Ad. Lauterbach^^ (Feb. 27th) also to others from whom we re-
The
ceived answers full of most auspicious omens.^'^
other part (of
our company) which had been excluded, at London, on account
from us and our
of their depraved manners,
wasting their time
spiritual intercourse,
were a scandal even to the

lower (inferior) sailors, who wondered that the young women
were beaten by the men. But even the triumvirate itself (for 3
families had been excluded) was split up into factions, and had not
in
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
at the former fight.
3rd our Captain received another anchor,
like
was
yet most
lost,
though inferior to the
we
latter,
unto
when we
acceptable unto us.
Scarcely had
were again
by a furious storm, and what increased the
visited
danger, the two anchors, which
and could hardly be adjusted
we
received this anchor
we had
cast,
(set aright)
became interlocked
though
Loosed,
to the
rocky and sandy ledges.
We
saw
of
cannon of
vessels in despair; at the
broken spars floating here and there.

have been,
we were
^5
extricated out of this danger,
"The Downs,"
1^
is
We
heard the
same time we saw
But what our
fate
would
could not (was not allowed to) inquire, nevertheless
much used by
we were
freed.
a spacious roadstead in the English Channel aflFording
an excellent anchorage.
and
took a long
the cables sustaining the
anchor of a ship not far off being torn asunder.
boom
it
were, meanwhile being borne nearer and nearer
time.
It is
between the shore and the Goodwin Sands
the British
Navy.
Tob. Ad. Lauterbach, one of the leaders of the Philadelphiac Com-
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,)
from Samuel WaldenSt., London, in March

me (a draft), sent from Divine
the following day I received a letter

residing in
the
"
Lamp
on Frenchurch
"
letter some money was assigned to

Holland by a devout (Lat. divina) virgin, Catharine Beerens,
van Boswig, said money to be received of Samuel Standeriwk, at
which
who
Deal,'-
received
me and my companion
Seelig, very civilly,
Virgin
on
and by way of conversation, he manifested great

(was wonderfully delighted) in the affairs of the Pietists
the following day,

interest
of Grermany,
and desired that
we
but our unexpected departure on
should often come to see him
March
frustrated our in-
8th,
For the man-of-war accompanying us, received orders

from the King to set sail. Therefore, unfurling our sails, about
sunset, we were borne along by the east wind with 19 accompanying vessels, whereof 3 were men-of-war.
Next day our Captain received instructions, from the admiral of
tention.
the war-vessels, concerning his course of action on the voyage, by
day and by night,
They
in all events, in
calm or storm,
in peace or
9-
war.
read as follows:
Boat or keeping Company with

Ship ye " Sandados Prize," under my Com-
"Instructions for your (the)

" their Majesty's
" mand
:
" If I weigh in ye day I will hauld from

"
and
fire
Gunn.
" topmast shrouds

" answer.
If I
my
foartop
If in ye night I will putt a
and
weigh
fire
Light
sail
Gunn, which Light you
in fog I will fire 3
shrouds
in ye
main
are
to
guns distinctly one after
" another.
" If I anchor in 5^6 night or in a fogg I will fire 2 Guns a small

" distance of time one from ye other and putt aboard a Light
" more than my constant Lights which Light you are to answer."
(Pap
" If
"keep
6 ot
i
a Light abroad
" Schrouds,
18
^0,)
lye by or try in the Night,
and
if
more than
my
will fire five
constant light
through extremity of Weather
Deal, a seaport and market town in Kent, England.
Guns, and March

'"
in the
Main-
we
are forced to
It
has no harbor.
HoU
" lye a
" abroad
" and
or under a Mizon,
two Lights
if
make
weighing
will fire three Guns, and put
of equal height
sail in
" lying by, or for

" for
Society.
more than
my
constant Light,
the Night after blowing Weather, or after
any other reason,
will
make
the same sign as
Night, wich Light you are to answer.
in the
" In case of separation
if
we meet by
day, the weathermost ship
"schall lower his Fore-Top-Sail, and those the Levard schall an" swer by Lowering their Main-Top-Sail.
"
He
that apprehends any danger in the
" and put abroad

"
Three Lights
Night
schall fire
Guns
of equal height, and bear away, or
Tack from it but if it schould happen to be strange ships, then

make false fires and endeavour to to speack with my (me) and
" to better to Ruon each other in the night, he that hails schall
;
"
" 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,)
have a desire to speak with you,
my Mizon-Top-Mast-Schrouds,
'
in
'
ensign.
" If
Ensign
'
Guns, and showing of Lights."
'
"
Majesty's Ship " Sandados Prize
'
March
" If in the night
Dated on Board
On
will hoist a Jack-Flag
my
you have a desire to speak with my, you schall hoist your
in your Pain-Top-Mast-Schrouds.
'
"
and make a Weft with
ye 9,
you chance
to spring a Leak, keep firing of
Will Allen.
their
169^.
the third day
we were borne by a
Wight on the
favorable wind, leaving,
On
10
at about noon, the Isle of
which was a Sunday, with bright sunshine, a most
favorable breeze blowing, we entered the harbor of Plymouth (than

which we could have scarcely wished a better) about five o'clock
jn the evening, and lo! the Belgian war-ships, ceding^ .as it. were,
their station
their
we
unto
former place,
us, left the port.
& now
safely
We,
right.
the 4th day,
gentle, yet very
entering port, occupied
moored from billows and storms,
had, moreover, to the west, our men-of-war,
&
a citadel, con-
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^^'-
Kelpius.
19
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20
taming
many guns (cannon)
as
as
Society.
there are days in the year,
namely 365.
(Page 8
of
fit^sf.)
PERIOD THIRD.
At
this place
we
tarried for five weeks, vainly expecting the
Meanwhile we became familiar with sundry citizens

of Plymouth.
The rest of our time was spent in sacred exercises
& meditation. I, for my part, received some letters from Cleves
& Niiremberg, wherefore I was not so much in a quandary concerning the manner of our voyage, but I answered all objections
royal convoys.
satisfactorily, directing
April
de Wateville,
moreover other
Moerkamp &
But when, on April

landed,
18.8
we
letters to
others, chiefly at
Mons
Lauterbach,
London.
& Spanish
& gave up
15th, Danish, Swedish
bargained with these for their convoy,^^
floats
wait-
ing for the royal vessels,
&
on the i8th, with a favorable south
wind, the sea being
we
ventured on our voyage, at about 10
a.m.
But, lo!
clear,
when we had
scarcely left port,
about by a contrary breeze, moreover,

ships,
which we
first
we were
driven
descried three stately
took to be French men-of-war, but found out
afterwards they were Portuguese.

arose, so that
we
we were borne
During
along, as
it
the night a heavy fog
were, blind-folded
the English coast, to which, resplendent in the evening sun,
&
lost
we had
bidden farewell, directing our course westward with a favoring

north-wind,
& with
38 vessels accompanying, being mostly Spanish,
these first discoverers but
conveying
On
us, seemingly,
this day,
now
hated settlers of the
new world,
towards a better hope.
on account of the opposition of
O ^
8 20. 5 the
superstitious crew expected a huge tempest, but an altogether indifferent sky permitted a prosperous course
under Lat. 49
the same time also on the following days 5
Ô
3'
33'.
At
so that that
formidable opposition neither from before nor behind exercised

(?) their powers.
19 In this
war, under the league of Augsburg, almost the whole of Europe
was arrayed
against France.
The Journal of
On
this
Kelphis.
day the south wind blew rather
21
Hourly we
violently.
April
traversed 5 English miles, but our convoys were scattered all day 23.
long
&
could hardly be kept together by their highest
mid-day the wind veered from south

time for furling
&
sail,
officers.
At
to west, scarcely giving us
awaiting, as yet, the dispersed vessels, our
sail alone expanded, we ploughed leisurely, the hostile

So the most favorable aspect of the constellations had caused
one of the worst storms.
main-mast
sea.
Hereafter,
on the 24th, under Lat. 48
On
gathered together.
able east-wind,
we
bade farewell,
convoys, rewarding them also.
was Nicholas
De
9',
our ships were
the 25th, under Lat. 47 49', with a favorin the evening, to
The name
24.
our Spanish
of their highest officer
Rudder.
PERIOD FOURTH.
Leaving,
therefore,
borne from Lat. 47
the
Spanish
3' to Lat.
43
vessels
58',
25-behind,
we were May
being favoured by a most
delightful east-wind throughout the week.
In longitude
we
trav-
more than 300 leagues (1200 geog. mi.), so prosperous was

the 2nd week of our voyage. But on the ist day of the 3rd week,
which was the 2nd of May, there blew an ugly west-wind, which
ersed
sorely vexed us
(Page
2.8
on the following night.
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
ây
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
proceeded with a favorable north-wind.
Lat. 49 55', with west-wind,
on the
ing the day,
7th,
we
we
sailed
passed through an unfavorable night.
Dur-
we
encountered several storms, losing our fore-masts,

that of the prow & 2 of the middle (the twin masts). Moreover,
we were unable
to ascertain
6.
0.
7.
T^
southward, until,
our latitude, neither moon, sun, nor
22
stars appearing;
cheered
the
but a
little
before evening devotions, a north-wind
Under
8.
sailors.
our
happily, restoring, in part,
Society.
41
Lat.
22',
we
sailed
along
lost masts.
PERIOD FIFTH.
9-8
Our
10-
stormy week being at an end,
Scarcely had
one.
we
we
entered upon a warlike
arisen after a turbulent night,
when
squalls
we
beheld
prevented our refitting the masts.
Early on the loth,
from
Some
homeward bound from Ameri-
Presently they advanced toward us.
afar, three vessels.
conjectured they were English ships
But when,
can shores.
after hoisting our colors,
we
perceived,
they did not reply, but kept on approaching nearer and nearer,
thought, they were bent on an engagement.
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
gained a greater victory.
Sometimes, however,
whilst being greatly troubled by her three adversaries, she would
wait for us
to
come up,
until, at last,
we
smallest ship, which carried six cannon.

tented, although
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
song of triumph (paean).
this battle of
struck by three cannon-balls only,
&
With
could have captured the
Strange to say, in
hurt,.
obtained possession of the
to
four hours' duration,
&
our
we were
that without any one's being

vessel.
On
board the vessel
been wounded in his foot, another had
the remaining ships,
what
losses
had they not
and on the following day, we, marvelling
at
The Journal of
divine Providence, worshipped
&
human
marry, the vicissitudes of
praised the
affairs
We
up, are they friends or foes?
name
vessels
still
loomed
We
a quandary.
viêre in
But ".
God.
of
Again two
two French war-ships were
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
Hence we again prepared
one.
their
altered
May
12 ot 9^gf.)
thus,
what seemed
our ruin, came happily
to be
off,
&
we,
our fears being somewhat allayed, rested our weary limbs.

Occasionally,
we were amused by
the gambols of the monsters
of the deep, some having the form of
and
still
others that of whales.
a fine spectacle,
when
calves, others that of horses,
Especially at night they presented
vying, as
it
were, in speed with our vessel,
they seemed just as moving through a sea of

cence).
But, lo! -/l.
sight, just as
to three
Late
in the
had met,
sLx navigators
if
for
we were
first
sailing already
minds were uneasy but for short

appeared, than she withdrew.
(Phosphoresship hove in
with our booty)
lastly,
our
this last vessel,
space, since
The French
12. ij.
two
three to two, then
Concerning
one being ofEered to our view.
fire,
morning another
no sooner had she
vessels returning
from
Martinique had thus far troubled us enough.

Sunday, bright sun-shine, under Lat. 39 48', laying care
we were
cheered by a favorable east-wind; shortly before,
been from the north.

the main.
On
Then with heavy
the 15th, the
our course, meanwhile the
French prey, grumbling
hunger for sugar,
&
our captain,
quenching
?),
we ploughed
we slacked
to south,
who
kept appeasing his
his thirst for cider
(with which
merchandise the ship was fraught), until he promised that

-should be partakers, just as himself, of the unjust
soon as the latter should have been
made
mammon,
of private right
all
as
from (by)
the lawful judges of these matters (pilfered from them).
had
looked with covetous eyes at our
sailors
at
sea-weed
wind veering
aside,
it
4-
<^
j^
24
Society.
PERIOD SIXTH.
The
May
i6. 17.
8.
11
39
fifth
week
Antego, though
of the warfare, the i6th day began under Lat.
morn advanced,
21', the 17th,
presented a ship returning from
preparing for battle with the same, yet
first
&
spent the remainder of the day most amicably,

for
London with
the same, determining (settling) also the contro-
versy (dispute) concerning our French booty, from which

18.
we
entrusted letters
On the
taken two cannon.
night winged our flight, but
i8th, east
wind
scarcely four sails
were unfurled on
We
account of the lazy-tardy bulk of our French prey.

therefore, for the latter,
&
we had
shortly before mid-
on the 19th, tired of waiting,
tarried,
we
bade
farewell to the " Providence," leaving her in charge of the booty,
&
20.
the
21.
22.
we went
so
wind being contrary and exceedingly
&
moderated on the 21st
$ He Prophet, X
was Feter
(proceeded) before alone, leaving
who
22nd.
prophesied for
At
me x
all the ships be-
But on
hind, that had set out with us from England.
the 20th,
which hardly
strong,
this juncture,
recalled a
while yet in London, that
Cherubim would be the companion of our way & our protectors in

& that this would be a sign that we should accept of Divine
danger,
assistance, to wit, that
yet
23-
we
although having
draw (come) ashore
in
America,
you would
at our companions,
~'~
they were borne in love.

if
i.
e.
23.
The
say, they are
North-wind
also
all
&
other vessels,
should happily
sixth week, looking
snugly at Philadelphia,
seemed
to favor, but, as
heaven had decreed otherwise, a west-wind visited us with storms,
when
already in Lat. 37,
^*y sought.
24.
behind
left
alone should precede with contrary wind,
we were approaching Virginia, which we

we were driven northward to Lat.
Therefore on the 25th,
39, whilst the sailors were becoming apprehensive, for a huge
(âgj
14 0f fiJ^Ô
seemed to
4-
vessel
late in the
sail by,
morning,
we
(Flying Dutchman?).
But on
the 26th,
came, very unexpectedly, up to seven
ships...
These were returning from Virginia to England. To our great

dismay we learned from them, that we were as yet 250 leagues diso tant from land
most agreeably to our reckoning. We entrusted
The Journal of
unto them
London,
letters to
from Circins (?)
to
&
Kelphis.
25
&
directed our course
bade farewell
Which
Notolybinn (?).
we
line, also,
now we were
the
31st,
borne south,
wind turned from Circins (?)
now
to
But on
north.
29.
fol-
28.
&
29.
in
3- 8
lowed on the 27th, the blessed day of Pentecost (Whit-Sunday)

on the 28th & 2gth. The seventh week was the most steadfast
inconstancy, for
north, presently to
3'-
Caecins, (north-east) then to east to Libanotus, and lastly, to south-
June
west.
but yesterday
(showers),
was
it
&
fish
throughout the entire night.

less constant,
medium
size
favored us.
was caught
as gold, spotted
(Page
we were
experienced variable wind, June
we had
rain-storms
^-
2.
cherished (comforted) by a
(Shirk), at the same time a strong north-east
kept advancing us
steadily
we
to-day, however,
clear,
about eventide
huge parasite
wind
yesterday,
ist, just as
the
in
about two leagues per hour
The same
north-east wind, though
During the morning hours, a dolphin of

our (unmoved) anchor. He was yellow
June
with red.
15 of 9^^.)
(The
dolphins must have been
wedged between anchor
&
poop!)
(When
(while) from the opposite, our parasite of yesterday, with June

huge bulk, & seven foot length tickled neither our eyes so much, nor
our
taste yet the
dolphin
filled
out both, though not confirming
credibility (stapability) the fable of the ancients concerning the love
of music, unless, perchance, you should say our English
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,
"
soon after changing to
where with
ing 5th
we
&
full sail,
we
east,
then to south-east under
36
53',
nor should
we
we
&
8. &: 9.
The same
driven north-east-ward,
5.
^...-
augured,
have been deceived in our
augury, had not the wind changed from south to south-west.

4. 7.
4.
outstripped the birds, so that on the follow-
6th, on the completion of our seventh week,
should see dry land
lat.
&
south-west wind continuing,
we were
disappointed in our hope of descrying
^"
f
7. 8. 9.
K^^
26
Society.
on the 50th day after our departure from

the bottom of the sea at only 38 threads
o England, we touched
228 feet)
( fathoms ?38X6
we were tossed about by a double storm
hours
four
for
lo
But
land
,0
10.
But
yet,
&
wind
until,
of 9^^.)
(âst 16
June
at last, north-east
II.
"|l
'''
wind, so often longed
for,
favored us, which,
that, although alnevertheless, on the nth, turned to north, so

12.
this end.
accomplish
not
could
most entering port, yet we
to 12
a.m.
about
from
85^
&
vessels,
three
From
afar
we
descried
lat. 36 45'beheld a huge eclipse of the sun under

influence^
blessed
most
a
by
entered
And lo! the eclipse over, we
to(Chesapeake)
Virginia
of
(considering externalities) the bay
midnight.
after
somewhat
wards 8 p.m., casting anchor
we
noon,
Ninth Week
'3
lA
ing,
&
IS- 16
ninth week, a good south-west blowVirgmia

leagues, until, leaving the coast of
Beginning with the new
we
traversed
40
sailing along that of
&
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,
sued the remainder of our way.

by Coster,
The memorable excommunication of Falkner

Schuchart, the Prophetess of Erfurt
of Anna Maria
anae)
that
(Erphorti-
Tenth Week
In
the
(literally
Castle; 23
tenth
week.19.
we
"kissed the ground
to Philadelphia,
Then follow copies of

at home and abroad, viz.
all
went ashore
(earth")
&
5-
finally 24.
22.
to
(disembarked),
Went
to
New
Germantown.
the nine missives sent to persons
The Journal of
German
1.
letter to
Kelpiiis.
Henrich Joh. Deichman^
27
in
London,
dated September 24, 1697

2.
To
3.
Postscript to above by
4.
Missive to
the same
cember
May
17-20
by Jan. van Leveringh*
12,
Johann Selig^
Mr. Steven Momfort^ in Long
II, 1699, in
21-34
35-40
De-
Island,
America Concerning the
Pietists
Germany {English)
in
41-47
5.
Letter to Rev. Tobias Erie Biorck,'^ Pastor of the Swed-
6.
To Maria
Lutheran Church
ish
her
at Christiana
letter, in
which she requests an expression of
opinion concerning the Quakers

-7.
To
8.
To
I,
my
{German)
Magister Fabritius,^ Prof. Theol.

1705 {German)
his "
48-60
{Latin)
Elizabeth Gerber^ in Virginia, an answer to
61-83
Helmstad July
in
84-88
Hertzens " Brother Deichman, July 23, 1705
{German)
Of
9.
ren,
3
89-91
the Threefold Wilderness State viz.
(2)
The
Fruitfull
&
( i )
The Bar-
(3) the Wilderness of the
Henrich Johann Deichman, leader of the Philadelphiac Movement
in
Europe.
*Jan. Van. Leveringh, a member of the Levering family who returned

Europe. Cf. " German Pietists," p. 338.
5 Johann Gottfried Selig, one of the leaders of the Kelpius Community.
For biographical sketch cf. " German Pietists."
to
^Stephen Mumford
(born
16391;
died July,
1701)
being the founder of the Seventh-day Baptist Church

"
German
Pietists," pp.
136
et seq.
Also
"
Seventh
Day
is
in
accredited with
America.
Baptists in
Cf.
Europe
and America," by Professor Corlies F. Randolph, Vol. II, Plainfield, N.

Rev. Tobias Eric Biorck, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Church
Christiana (Wilmington, Del.).
"^
Maria Elizabeth Gerber
in Virginia.
The
J.
at
identity of this person has
not been solved.
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
Magister Johannes Fabricius, professor
tutor of
Johannes Kelpius.
in
the
University of Altdorf,
28
Elect of God, anno
mer^" in
Long
May
25, 1706,
Society.
To
Hester Pal-
91-101
Island in Flushing {English)
These letters, as will be seen, are somewhat rhapsodical,

and filled with obscure illusions to mystical subjects and
scriptural quotations.
vein of true piety, however, per-
vades every missive, the whole being an evidence of the

survival of superstition at that late day, strangely mingled
with the observed facts of science.
1
Hester Palmer in
Flushing,
Long
Island.
Identity
not
established.
Evidently a member of Steven Mumford's congregation.
Bookplate of the London Society for Propagating the Gospel in

Foreign Parts.
I.
LETTER TO HEINRICH JOHANN DEICHMAN,

LONDON, ENGLAND.
Copy of a Letter from Pennsylvania to London, to Mr.
Heinrich Johann Deichman.
February
24}^,
1697.
Faithful Fellow Champion Deichman!
.OUR
esteemed favor received with joy, and there re-
sounds from "

closed, such
herself
The
an echo
had meant
Wisdom," which you enour spirit, as though wisdom
Call to
in
us.
We
behold the harmony of
divine discipline by virtue of a sympathetic agreement

of your centre with ours, and although the radiant roads
from and
with
to the latter, cross each other in
all this diversity,
an endless manner, yet
the aspect of the upper huts of our mother,
manifold wisdom, becomes more dear and joyous. Therefore we are

not angry because of your cross and opposition roads, just as you,
hope, arenot angry with ours, because, indeed, from the stroke
of the cross, the bright colors of the sign of peace must be born,
we
Solomon from David. The radii of our cross are directed

present from the centre exteriorly, when, however, the Lord is
just as
at
willing to unite these outward-turned extremities of our cross in

their central point, He alone knows, and to Him alone this is possible.
Hence
it
the letters Y. L.
place.
We
is
not
my
intention to pen with ink of our color,
(Your Love), because your love
is
sealed in
its
only long for the revelation in and from out the heart
God, and the more anxiously we bear, the more

carefully the Lord hides us from the dragon, that watches so careof the love of
fully for the birth, in order to devour
it.
30
Fight thou with
thou faithful soul, and lead
us,
same
tives forth into the
Society.
and
battle,
thy rela-
all
no strange trumpet of
sufiEer
prince operating through fame in the air, to separate our united

phalanx under the banner of the Lion and the Lamb, (we must
long for in hopeful patience, as later on, the Father at times,

renders the waiting sweet).
love him rightly, for whom we can
The Lord once said:
We
wait a long time
he,
The Lord
depart.
which
this desire, in
whom we
love but
little,
hath also waited long for

blissful,
hoping waiting,
from him we soon

us, ere
we
received
remain with cordial
embrace in the love of Jesus

thine eternally united
J.
P.
S.
ardent
Most worthy
my
brother,
becometh
spirit
Kelpius.
the
the longer I write,
more
in the desire for the revelation of
our
hope, because all pens or quills, or even bodily cohabitation, though
modify the longing somewhat, do but little or naught for the

cause. How often am I in the spirit more exactly round about you,
than I am with those with whom I corporeally dwell in Kedar.
these
Therefore
hand that hath
the Father's
kiss
For
desert as into a chamber.
had
verily!
led
me
remained
into
in
this
London
we should have done harm never to be

now clearly see, as we love each other
were loth to let me go, hoping in spirit to con-
with Mecken and Clerk,
told unto each other, as I

cordially,
and they
tinue the
work
vigorously.
into a garden of roses,
the furnace
and
and
of affliction in
to prove
me, and
now
I
I
went with joy
knew not
into this desert, as
at that time, that
it
to purify
since the heat hath
somewhat
I see
it,
Lord Jesus Christ,

But enough hereof! My
that
survive, as I hope,
and
passed by, and I praise the Father, our
He
willed such good unto me.
Mecken
regards to
grow with
hope, and
&
Clerk,
if
us in the same hope;
we
shall speak
they
it
in unrest.
is
still
but for a
little
best
while, as I
unto each other differently, far differently
than heretofore, and then shall no

the faithful and
was
which the Lord was about
man
take our joy from us, for
true witness will not suffer us to be constantly
The Journal of
am
in
us and,
Kelptus.
31
no wise displeased with them, that

they were offended in
a measure, delivered us unto
death.
have, indeed
often been brought near to
the gates of death, and
death,
our
We
which David dreaded so much,
the coldness of
is
not vet past.
loss has
Now
been their salvation (as above

indicated)
more will our life be their assumption
(proslepsis),
l.ord shall
awaken
us
where
how much
when the
from the dead. We certainly

had had
them; if, however, this being were
would the accretion be, and the love
sufficient cause, to be offended

in
to continue in growth, where
that IS founded upon forgiveness

from the heart, and forgiveness
upon the knowledge of one's own faults,
and this knowledge is
founded upon that great humility which
we
our great knowledge.

the proud, and
how
But
the
all
lacked in spite of
Lord knoweth how
to
humble
bend that which in us is rigid by

means of
His fatherly cross-blows with which our
ways are interwoven To
Him be praise, honor, power and glory for
ever, world without
end.
An
to
Amen.
Ancient Horoscope Cast by the Mystics

on the Wissahickon.
II.
LETTER TO HEINRICH JOHANN DEICHMAN,

LONDON, ENGLAND.
To THE
Same,
May
I2*^ 1699.
through Jan von Lewenigh
(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
how you show
special joy,
in
your
last let-
with a package by Mr.

ter, happily delivered together
mirror, and how
SchaefEer, your heart unto us as in a
you are being
you permit us to see in what manner
covenant, even so, that
purified in the furnace of the
was not the lot of the
feel, that your experience
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.
mine own, concerning
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
clude, that the entire
do
understand
as extendeth
it
this to
such
be an ordinary suffering, but rather
from Gethsemane
hath not yet come to the
of death,
one
is
on
still
behind,
to
when
Golgotha; yea, what shall
.branch!
The
worst, the thrust
no common
Herod, or mystic imagma-
I shall atone before
the cross, or Jebusite, as
32
I say,
The Journal
tion
and dreams (but
am
of Kelp'ms.
not speaking)
33
(will reveal the right
mystic way, which the world did hide) but of a

this
tially,
is
done once and for
all
time, and
where, essen-
real,
from out of which
a necessary transmutation as to body, soul and spirit resulteth.

have, indeed, heard and read
much
of
many
ascended, yea, descended with a virgin body, and
with their former body
in
that have died, risen,
now filling therenew covereth
such a manner, that the
the old, as hides or pelts cover the hut of Moses,
the worthi-
etc.,
ness of which I do not impeach; yet sad experience hath hitherto

taught, that most men, after such advance, have not only not out-
stripped the others, but
and have,
in part,
The words
faith
become unlike themselves
of Partus
(Plato
founded, that none
is
much
some have been made subservient
less,
?)
are clear indeed, on
in this life
is
to others,
in a deterior altitude.
my
which
preferred before another,
that one shall be the cause efficient of another's resur-
Great speculations on this subject are of no avail, much

imagination, which latter, with those who had some
rection.
less availeth
true relations, was at last regarded as such, or at least blended

therewith, though they consider themselves free from all mixture,
for they do it, though eventual acts may approve of speculation,
and
it
has been tried, bringing on
could adduce sufficiently

in their
many
many
a great fall, of
palmy days would not have yielded to any one

but the same are such
on account of their inspiration
which
examples, and indeed of such
who
in
England
as
by these
events are compelled to hide themselves in their chambers, until

the wrath be completely past, before which they were unwilling,
at that time, to stoop, thinking themselves, as being perfectly
cleansed and purified, sufficiently strong, until that wrath be cast
upon the ground. And although such a fall, however great it is
(see
that
that
Psalm 62, 2 Gen.) might not eternally

is,
is,
cast
them down,
according to their inner spark of faith; as long as we,

the simple and quiet, step most securely.
hasteneth not.
He
that hath said.
He would
He
that believeth,
come, will come
as-
and without our running before; the wise virgins; will be

awakened, all at the same time, and they go forth and enter, all
suredly,
34
at the
same time,
Society.
into the joy of their Lord,
none of them runneth
before or precedeth another, and, therefore, we should not regard

the so called preference in the kingdom of God, because herein
there existeth no precedence and order, or emulation, as is the case
in academies and at courts of the world, but the greatest is as the
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,
masculine birth for the universal redemption of groaning creation, as
well as those that have received the firstlings of the Spirit,
become God-bearing.
Now
then, in the
finish this
work
name
of the Lord, let
so long desired, to
that of all creation, and then
we may
But, worthy brother, forgive me,
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
your mind the example of our dearest Saviour
Jesus and his precursor John, not to speak of others, as I only

represent a biga (two-horse-chariot) of eternal grace, because, at
present and heretofore,
However much
tion of office,
men have always been
speaking of Z.^
these kept themselves hidden before their assump-
however
silent they
they kept themselves in
all
were concerning
their future, but
things in a virgin silence (whereof in
Old Testament, the virgins always remain at home, and a going

out in disguise representeth something properly) until that hour
which was destined for them in the calendar of eternity, and then
the
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:
"See here!" "See there!" not
to speak of the idle personal applications.
will
come
to pass quite differently
In a word, the
even Jesus Christ himself imagines, and though

2
Z = possibly
affair
than one or several men, yea,
an astrological character.
we
have revelation
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Kelpitis.
hereof, this revelation oftentimes cannot
upon a
the instrument, and often falls

son, and,
much
not do,
this will
if
many have
as
must be
it
have these things happened, and
perhaps not be so
two
disciples that
strate
called a figure;
now,
How
still
often, for pity's sake,
happen even
such through
in
may know
it
unto
whom we
can re-monstrate
appeared spiritually before God, but did not
As
the bird thinking
down
so
whom
it
come to a bursting
then the mystery of the holy gospel (when children that
and permit
a string about a bird's foot
tie
it,
themselves even without remonstrations,
these also stand in just as great danger as the others, in
forth.
inas-
salvation should burst forth; and
to them, for those
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
false application of its per-
practiced carnal lust in faith, or, at least, have
brought about a spiritual mixture.
whom
35
its
o fly
it
upward, and
freedom attained, but the children may pull
them at will) is fulfilled, wherein the spirit of evil

permits them to soar on high in knowledges and visions, caring
little about their freedom of ascension, if only he can make them
descend at will by means of the rope fastened to their feet and
it
to
incorporated with their earthly dwelling.
Unto your opened wound,
Dearest brother!
more agreeable than
salt
and expect of me,
dejected in
mind
swim
in
my
this
element, as I
as,
doubtless,
see,
how some by
to bind
you would
am
am
gifts
glide
loth to storm with the
But,
my
faithful heart,
dangerous place where you are and
bland
loth to
would rather enjoy and gently
beloved on evening clouds, but
I consider the
oil
be perhaps
you are bruised and
and, believe me, that
sufficiently,
north wind through the garden of God!
when
may
and pungent wine? which
fain choose
with
oil
in spirit
seek to gouge out your eye and
your hands, after having shorn you of your locks of
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.
L. and his associates, and their writings have
36
often strengthened
we may
me and
me
raised
Society.
from my heart,
know, how those
up, but I wish
not see this sad drama more.
So
I also
(whom I spiritually embrace and kiss)

founded upon the corner-stone of our salvation, have been so
dear souls Quedlinburg
powerfully
I
edified, after
having laid aside so many rudiments, and
they will also discard
hope,
the
hasten to the purpose; therefore, I
remaining superfluities, and
deem myself too
paltry and
am so fain
we might be
to see, that,
miserable to teach them anything, because I
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
nor without the
we may
final
shall take us captive
call
it,
as previously indicated
and detain us; hence, we cannot but expect
the bursting forth of salvation from Jesus Christ,
through us
all,
by me),
lunge of death, although thereafter nothing
because
we
all
Nazareth, remaineth the glorified theanthrope, from

of the Father welleth and bursteth forth.
from and
He, Jesus of
in,
are but one body, and
whom
the life
Behold, dear brother,
manifest and through His apostles manifested truth
this
unknown
to
you; inasmuch, however, as
we
see
so
is
not
many and
various pseudo-saviours in the theatre of these our revolutions,
were not strange,
if
it
our countenances were somewhat turned away
from the only true one, and
if
we
looked infatuated upon another
guest-brother's beauty, yea, angelic and cherub-like clearness,
and
thus forsook our truest and most beautiful bridegroom amongst

all,
and
if
we became
faithless or
even adulterous and would thus
contaminate our virgin garment or even lose
it;
we
recognize, in-
among all these forms, the proximity of salvation, but so,

that we may not embrace some folly because of too great ardour
and heat of desire, as some men and women in their too ardent
deed,
and passionate devotions have done, soaring perhaps too high, and
then being humiliated, they took heed, as then the danger
and ineffably great, but not
so great, as
when we
is
truly
in spirit desert
our most true and loving Jesus for the sake of others (though
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Kelpius.
37
they were angels), and become mixed with them, as indicated
and you stand before
before,
sary
But
to
Schaeffer:
we
vania,' so
as
He
hence
from
*
:
otherwise do not
'
He would
in Halle,
is
reported to have said
probably, find the devil in Pennsyl-
are not ignorant of that which he
Mr. Lange
Koester
we
here).
our dear Mr. Schirmer,
as
Mr.
we
as
of,
greater danger on
in
(as we, for the sake of neces-
sometimes do that which
assistance,
approve
matter
this
account of various circumstances
Ye
Hungary,
(of
if
err not)
is
thinking
said
but
of,
Falkner
to
standeth at our right
all fiery
&
Lord Jesus in Pennsylvania

hand as a hero and screeneth us
will also find the dear
'
onslaughts of Satan, and because His pure wisdom
hath upon her tongue both the sharp law and the gentle grace,
Prov.
3. 16, so
and through
others,
we
also are strengthened
all things, as
where we, from
we have
and comforted
in all things
experienced in ourselves and in
a distance, impartially observe the deeds
or the stumblings of every one of your round-table-companies.
But enough hereof!
If
now, dear brother, you
find
suredness in your heart, to come to us, do not think, that

Sohlige by his walking about,
am
as I
in
certain,
coming
is
my
different principle
our dear Schaefer, or others were,
who from
hence ran back again, hoping to teach the world or even the
For,
how you
will fare here,
we
as-
dear
aiming at you or your congress,
you will be drawn by quite a
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
opinion can do no longer, inasmuch as matters have progressed

too far, and your faith hardly reaches so far, that you
lieve, it
woxild rain
any thing
in
your
manna
would
be-
into your tent (though I cannot find
letter to justify
your giving up your present
engagement entirely).
We
3
cordially received Schaefer
and gave him the choice among
38
7
or
among our
places,
different
where he might have enjoyed
Society.
acquaintances and
bread in quietude;
his
if
friends,
he had only
tutored the child of the house, he might have, after so
wanderings and ups and downs, been able
God
permit
and
to prepare his soul
fix his
come
to
purpose.
many
to rest
But
and
his heart
always drew him to his nation: Swedes, Finlanders and Indians,
which 3 resemble each other very much, in order to do good among

them, as he thinks; and he went amongst them, and we parted
from each other

back to
us, if
in love, as
left the
But when
thought he would.
to rest, the
we
door open for him, to come
among
he should not find
his nation that
Lord alone knows,
for he himself
on the contrary, he
to attain this end,
which he
at last, his soul shall be
brought
without method
is
desirous of converting
is
and strengthening others, though he himself confesses he has no
many impede
grounds, and thus
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
unwilling to turn therefrom.
Now, who could think,

in so much as to be
wrong way,
be merciful unto such and unto
us all!
Now, whatever you

vide,
and doubt thou
do, do
not.
it
in faith, that the
Lord will pro-
Neither be thou afeard of the
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
you find the means
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
of this enterprise, as though you
hereby evade Babylon and
all
temptations, nor yet too
would
little,
as
though this place were not more comfortable for your circumstances, to hide
in a
you
in
your
middle course, that
to pass,
we
shall,
is,
exile,
than London
is
in child-like simplicity.
and safety lies

If this comes
no doubt, receive more ample information con-
The Journal of
many
cerning
how
we mourn
greatly
we have
than
things,
concerning Catharina B.
Kelphis.
received hitherto, especially
whereof
v. B.,
39
we knew not a word, and

much so, that our heart
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
;
intrusted this one with several secrets, and as he related to Hatten-
bach, as
this
is
known) and
luminous sun
inasmuch
figure,
( i.
as
e.
his
black magician could darken and blacken
Catharina)
And
may
he
cient proof
and shows what he was hankering
of the flesh,
which he could not
of
how
which
she,
is
true.
But
judgment of God, how they began
God, and how God
ever known,
become
in her,
gifts
and
And
it
may
ably,
many
many and may have
have
all
that
special virtues (as then Jesus
outward
things she had advanced consider-
whereof no one should boast, but rather fear).
ized by
be
possibly be, that
Christ, himself but a child, did distinguish her, though in
splendor and knowledge of
may
at the house
being the purest and best soul
sublime in the eyes of men.
suffi-
and what
she
they did begin to lay low in the dust
on account of her rare
is
namely, lust
after,
satisfy in this pious soul,
Seelig writes hereof, will, no doubt,
a figure before the
prefer cutting a
second marriage, or whoredom,
She was
idol-
delighted therein, wherefore the Lord
did abash her and caused her to be clothed in sack-cloth or goat

skin, that she
self
might forget her excessive wanderings, and hide her-
from the knowledge of men.
Then many
a great saint will in
become great through her fall,

and to make himself esteemed by judging and condemning her,
just as he seeth and toucheth her exterior, rough sack in which the
secret rejoice, thinking himself to
Lord hideth
her, so he manifesteth hereby his internal, thorny
and
black nature which erstwhile had remained hidden under a radiant

sheep skin.
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,
40
Society.
was so lowly and, in all things, like unto His brethren,

more lowly than they; and I should like to know, how
Dr. Schmidberg and others welcomed her, when she returned.
The poor child, no doubt must have been compelled to run the
gauntlet and to sing from the Song of Songs: Look not upon me
whilst Jesus
yea, even
because
am
black, because the sun hath looked
mother's children were angry with me; they

of the vineyards; but
mine own vineyard have
have been a special providence, that

at that time, for all things
Still, I
author
my
what
the
forth
from her
Lord hath done by us
and because
.
it
cordial greetings,
rest
But
if it
may
and though
had for
its
Write thou
contained.
she, too,
nor any other
both, yet I
and quietude.
bless her in time, in that
It
should like
with her for an hour, to bring to her heart several things,
to chat
not kept.
at their appointed time.
therein was.
can easily imagine what
with
to her, prithee,
the keeper
did not receive her letter
must arrive
know what
should like to
my
upon me:
made me
is
as
man
He
would not
allure her
doubt not but the Lord will
hath through her blessed so many;
His sheep
His hand,
in
so neither that
will be able to snatch her
from out His
Amen.
hand.
What we as brethren have written, you may communicate at the

same time (because the one explaineth the other) without fear and
For although
reserve.
have touched upon several particulars and
have written rather frankly (but Seelig has remained

topics) I have
no doubt but that
all
in general
honest and upright disciples in
Christ according to His doctrine, will readily assimilate the
though
it
disgusteth those
weaklings.
us,
who wantonly would remain
But do not omit corresponding very
frequently with
because herein I perceive the special hand of God, therefore I
have also procured for you a good address, as you
what
have enclosed, the which you are to hand to
may
W.
us the acts with diligence, in that our friends crave for

if
possible,
We had
to
salt,
effeminate
something of Portage,
who
is
written about one or two pages
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
they will reach their
The Journal of
Now,
if
ever you come to us,
Please to give
the fact, that
all
Kelphis.
41
things shall be
my kindest regards to Mecken and

I am not at all afeard of his letter,
have become so hardened
in this desert, that I
corporeal punishment, though undeserved.
made
inasmuch
that
He
that
come.
we may reward
the
word
May
Yes, come. Lord Jesus.
of
as I
can possibly endure

the
Lord alone
strengthen us through an extraordinary power (for such

these days)
good.
inform him of
His
Amen.
is
ours in
patience, until
Hallelujah.
Yours,
J.
K.
Symbol of the Mystical Ephrata Community on the Cocalico,

Lancaster County, Penna,
III.
LETTER FROM JOHANN SELIG

TO H. J. DEICHMAN, LONDON, ENGLAND.
Copy of the Letter which Johann Seelig to the Same
WITH This Did Send.
Dearly beloved Brother
,OUR
in the
Lord:
letter has partly comforted,
partly grieved, and
yet again encouraged us, in that the
the same spirit (unto as

spirit of the
many
Lord
one and
in
of us as stand in one
pure knowledge of His wondrous judg-
ments) hath given us
to perceive,
whither such ap-
parent calamities at this time are aimed and directed,

the which
is
lost sight of
them assuredly
in divine
by magicians, but
is
brought home unto
power from the simple ground of
faith-
magic, to the consternation of the whole world, for whereby that
adept in the black art though he could soar aloft and crush his op-
may
ponent, even thereby he

riseth in divine
power.
be brought down, whilst his opponent
Behold,
how
the principal person
is
acting in the final destruction of the world through his false
ing star or harbinger
Through
already
morn-
this their confusion, there
is
insti-
tuted from the simple and childlike ground of faith, the true lovefeast or
supper of the marriage of the
should have been rendered in our
made
Lamb
German
(thus Apocalypse 19
Bible).
As no mention
of this supper by the church and the reformation Baals
-this time, as a witness against
is
up to
them, that they do npt belong to the
blessed that are called thereunto, until after holding such a lovefeast,
the
King himself
tioned person
who
in
person appeareth, and the afore-men-
will then also appear, and bear in his flesh the

42
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43
centre of the magic ground of the dark world, bringing
it
to a
close.
My
and
dear
to
little
write
how
wedded unto
soul-spark
manifest
to
brother, we, indeed, had
but
of,
the light of
its
through
properly
itself
many
possible, that the
is it
things to speak of
above imperishable
sophic bride, should be able

these
awkward, unpropor-
tioned organs of our present miserable body, wherein the same lies
Nothing
captive besides?
pleasing to the sight of this spark,
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
and cry with our beloved
God, thou
art
my
soul thirsteth for thee,
my God
flesh
thirsty land,
where no water
yearn thus!
The
pathless desert
body that
the
is
flesh of
and dry
early will I seek thee
to
sit
in
my
longeth for thee in a dry and
And how
is.
my
often doth
flesh
Christ in us longeth to come out of the
flesh of this
body
to the
upper hut of the
not fashioned with hands from the waters above.
beloved desireth,
birth-right,
to
Yet
no other manner than through divine

the spoiled lap of his bride, passing from
in
such dryness and pathless desert and saying, that
may
be seen
thus in thy holy doing.
Therefore,
let
us be unanimous, nor let us tear off the swaddling-
clothes of the discipline of our Father, as naughty children do, that
afterward were bound with ropes; but nowadays

are neither swathed nor bound,
heavily, and, in turn,
it is
many
children
therefore filling the vessel
meted out unto them
heavily.
bond wherewith Paul was bound, when he writeth of himself:

in spirit
bound
mystery of
thereunto.
this
" considering that
binding
Hence
in spirit, or
there ariseth:
I.
some are unwilling
too
blessed
" I
to see the
unwilling to resign themselves

a restless running about from
place to place without use and fruit of edification, either of one's

self
or of another; 2. a
life
according to one's
own
advice, caring
which one's neighbor giveth in love and faith, but

... Of God and His Spirit; 3. all manner of fickle imagination
concerning one's self and one's deeds to which we were called in
little
for that
44
the world or in the church, as one imagines
or lewdness according to the
word
Society.
4. spiritual
of the prophet,
consisting in a constant desire of devotion in our
luxuriance
Old Testament,
own
circle
and
also in behalf of others, breaking thereby the faith-link of Peter,
namely: abstinence 2 Feb. 45,
6, especially at this time,
when
the
impure, astral Venus desires to run constantly parallel to and act

equally with our true philadelphian spirits of love, which are the
body of heavenly wisdom, against which there
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
his cloth in distinct
making
That which
thee.
XLXX,
there ariseth a foolish nuisance, in that
modate ourselves
on
may know
Ep. 34 and Psalm
this,
his
we
is
written
of impor-
is
cannot accom-
varying forms of Saul, where the Lord put
manners, but
Now,
abode therein.
passion, but understandeth well,
we
think an impure spirit
as that
why
the
one doth not
Lord
fly
is
into a
hath, for a time,
hidden them, not only from men, but also from one another. (Yea,
LXX.
self in kind, as David prayeth therefor, 2. Sam. 22.

Lord redeem or save from myself: (these words, I have
added)
also
from one's
6.
such unbridled liberty easily leadeth into a barren
temptation; as such an one often thinketh himself in the midst of

hell,
and almost immediately thereafter he declares he
by which declaration, the ignorant are dazzled,

true bounds of the process of Christ
come
to pass
which has a
the sophistic, which
is
is
in
heaven,
beyond the
which something may
similarity, just as the astral
Venus with
but an astral motion, whereby the sensate
elementary part, which

stars,
(in
is
as being
thus affected).
lies
In
below, just as the earth beneath the

this
connection
men have indulged
in
another folly arising in them from ignorance, in that they constantly look at the accidents that
may
may.
For then they consider themselves well secured and
done almost everything,
if
and
strike their exterior part,
are blind to the danger therein, especially at this time, soul
to have'
they are exact in matters of external
in business and in their form of

outward devotion, and hence they enjoy quietude, but they are
clothing, eating
and drinking,
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'45
of Kelpiiis.
unwilling to comprehend aught of the firmament of the astral
where the need
principle,
nor will they suffer being
greatest,
is
told that such disturbs their devotion;
great
evil,
we
May
our
are confirmed in error and

faithful
God and
that they
7^*^,
My
dear
little
work
disgrace
upon
disgrace.
Father of our Saviour grant that none of His be
brought so low, but may

the
there finally ariseth the
7.
namely, the aforementioned abode of Satan, wherein
may
He
them from the
deliver
tribulation in
not be united with the evil one.
brother, pardon
my
prolixity, I
am
not seeking to
more learned and stronger than I

roll a part of my burden upon thy
instruct thee, perhaps thou'rt
am.
am
only trying to
shoulders, hoping thou wilt help
when
hath, for these
many
me and
especially
What
tion.
me
bear
it.
think of the merciful, dear heart of
What
God
shall I say,
our Father
who
years in this desert, preserved several of us,
dear brother Kelpius, from the arrows of destruc-
when
shall I say,
think of the powerful eagle wings,
upon which His providence hath lifted us poor worms, and borne
My heart is melting away in
us and conducted us wonderfully.
tears
for
and will not suffer me
it
lieth
still
in
hidden, and, in season due,
My
letter,
as the
bodily health
to
pursue the thought, nor can
mysterious wisdom, as a child in the
is
its
joy shall be
made
this be,
womb
manifest.
rather poor; do not be too obscure in your
but open your heart unto
Lord permitteth,
us, as
well as you
especially in regard to C.
may and
just
Reecken and
others.
The
religions here are in constant opposition,
cataracts
David
in his exile in the desert.
will endure until that Joshua and Elijah
which
nor
is
this at all
whose roaring waves and
surprising, for they are the Jordan, of
Psalm 42, singeth, which

come and divide the river
is, a division and ejection of

whence another Jordan will arise, that is,
the doctrine of the judgment, which will flow in loveliness, for in
the significance, as a figure of the cross of wisdom, is contained in
is
judgment
rightly called Jordan, that

into victory,
the near Jordan.
P. S. to
my
Greetings,
letter.
myself, regarding with
On
etc., etc.
perusing this letter, I was amazed at
wonderment:
i.
the long, 2. the prickly, 3.
46
Society.
was clad while writing, having resolved

diiferent, but my spirit was broken,
and my heart directed elsewhither, and my mind was led in bonds,
whither it would not I was fain to retain- the letter, were I not as
which
the rough sack in
to write
something totally
yet bound.
I,
therefore, resign the matter wholly to the merciful
who knoweth why this had

know not, yet recognize this
fact, especially as to persons, thinking of so many personalities.
My heart would fain melt away in tears of blood, both when
Father of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
to be thus,
though
I,
for the
most
I consider the tribulations to
when
upon
us.
commend
all
ings
come, and also for gratitude and joy,
think of the salvation,
saved us from so
many
part,
how His
fatherly
hand hath already
snares of the hunter, and poured His bless-
This again awakens the slumbering hopes,

things unto the
Lord with a believing
so that I
heart, for
He
will do all things well.
Farewell.
Seal of the Sisterhood of Saron on the Cocalico (from Ancient
Ephrata Document).
IV.
LETTER TO STEVEN MOMFORT IN RHODE

ISLAND.
To Mr. Steven Momfort
in
Long Island^
in America.
1699, II. December.
Dear Friend and Brother:
fellow-fighting in that Free and Royal Spirit
this
is
in
Midnight the Cry of the Bridegroom's coming
sounded forth among the Virgin waiters for the
Preparation of the
Temple Body, wherein
Glory and Father of the coming Eternity
Your
which
when
strives for the Prize of the first Resurrection
great desire for to be a
little
King
the
of
to enter.
is
further informed of the Principles
and Practizes of those People that go under the
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
;
Jesus the Apostacy hath run in a continual current

day, and though this Stream hath divided itself in
Rivulets, under several
are not ignorant
and tend
to the
how
Names
of
till
this
many
more reformed Purity,
very
smaller
yet
you
they derive their Emanation from one Spring
same end. Viz. that the
Woman
in the
Wilderness
Remnant
Mother and groan for the ManifesNo wonder then, if your continual Gazing
might be carried away by the Flood.
Therefore you,
as a
of her seed, long for to see your

tation of her children.
upon
1
this
Supercaelestial
Orb and
Should be Rhode Island.
47
Sphier from whence with her
48
Children, causeth you to observe every

Stars and various Colours of the Skei,
Society.
new Phoenomena, Meteors,

peradventure you may be-
if
hold at last an Harbinger as an Evidence of that great Jubelee or

Restitation of all things and glorious Sabbathismos or the continual
days of Rest without intervening or succeeding Nights, whereof
God
hath spoken by the mouth of
began (Acts
21)
3,
every Title and Iota.
If
now
this late
to speak of that in other parts)
under the
Name
Name
all his
Prophets since the world
whereof both the Testaments prophesie
arid
which
in the
Roman Church
of Quietism, in the Protestant
goes
Church under the
of Pietism, Chiliasm, and Philadelphianism, If I say this
together or one in Special purtends any thing to this effect.
not question, but

re Joyce
it
will be your as well as
all
Sun causeth
other Stars and
succeeds
it,
all
ness into Light,
Mercy,
but to see
this,
that forementioned Floud and where
but that the Night
Death
Phoenomena
is
into Life,
its
to disappear,
swallowed up
Judgment
in ye
refined seven times,
and
Dove (Cant.
6,
all
its
new
glorious
no Night
Day, Dark-
into Victory, Justice
imperfect Metals into Gold, and Gold
all
do
who would
desire,
our days, that happy day, which when
in
Earth swallows
the one
my
not only to give you full satisfaction as to
with you, yet
into
in
Revolution in Europe (not
itself
is
Churches and Virgins comprised into
9), then
all
the Sons of
God
will shout
when God was all in all, as he

End hath found its Beginning.
for joy as they did in the Beginning,
will be all in
Amen
all,
when
again the
Halleluiah
Dear and worthy
friend,
though unknown
knovv'n in that better, yea in the best
the Life of our
to
the Flesh but
Line and highest descent
Immanuel, whose day we rejoyce
to hear of
in
and
more
to see, as well within us as without us, in its Depth, Hight,

Breadth and Length, through the whole palsed and groaning Creation, as well as in
How
can
our Mother Jerusalem above and Beneath!
write the particulars of the Quietists, Chiliasts or
Fame is spread in all the 4 quarters of the

They first sprang in Italy, in Rome itself (and
now through the whole Roman Church in many
Philadelphians, whose
now
Christianity.
are increased
The Journal
Millions, though they
was and
of Kelpius.
are
before the Pietists or Chiliasts in
still
depressed)
49
15 or 20 years
Germany and Switzerland (where
the first Reformation) in the year '89 and '90, with a swift increase
through the whole Nation, so that their Branches also did break
England under the name of Phila-
forth into other Nations, as in

delphians.
Power
This Penn
the Pietists
(and especially
their Infancy.
is
too dull to express the extraordinary
and Chiliasts among the Protestants
in
This only
I say, as
one
who
Powers and
operations have not been manifested as in a matter of

these.
And
like as the
in
hath read the Histories,
that since the days of the Apostels, such Miraculous
among
Germany
in
Saxony) and Switzerland was endued with
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
interiour parts by Ectases, Revelations, Inspirations, Illuminations,
Inspeakings, Prophesies, Apparitions, Changings of Minds, Transfigurations, Translations of their Bodys,

14, 27,
wonderful Fastings for
1 1,
37 days, Paradysical Representations by Voices, Melodies,
and Sensations
to the very perceptibility of the Spectators
who was
about such persons, whose condition as to the inward condition of

their Souls, as well as their
thoughts they could
tell
outward Transactions, yea
their very
during the time of their Exstacies, though
they had never seen nor heard of the Persons before.
These and many other Gifts continued

three years and a half
ignoble.
among
all
as
sorts of
is
said, for a
matter of
Persons, Noble, and
Learned and unlearned, Male and female, young and
old,
very conspiciously and generally Protestants chiefly, and some Papists,

till
and with some though more refined such and
this
Thus
like Gifts last
very day.
how
was baptized with such

Cloud by Gifts
and miraculous Manifestations of the Powers from on high.
Now will I tell in short in what a craggy, uneven yea dark
partly I have declared
they
energical drops out of that supercaelestial Pillar of
The Pennsyhania-German
50
Society.
when hitherto they have been

many inward and outward Tribu-
wilderness they have been led since,
baptized with the fiery Pillar of

lations,
Sorrows, Temptations, Refinings, Purifications (but never-
theless this Fiere casts such a
Might and dark
the persuing
Light befor'm that securs'm from

influence of
Egypt and guides'm
lations as the Apostels have witnessed, so they felt
For when
very smartly.
I.
The
in
This must be through many Tribu-
that beloved land and City.)
these things
begun
to
and
it
feel it still
ferment every where,
Students in the Universities forsake their former
Learning and applied themselves wholly
to Piety
way
of
and Godliness,
(from whence their name was derived) leaving and some burning
their heathenish Logiks, Rhetoriks, Metaphysiks.
2.
The Laymen
or Auditors begun to find fault with the Sermons and Lifes of

their Ministers, seeing there
was nothing of Ye Power
Ghost, nor of the Life of Christ and his Apostels.
under the Information and Tuition of

applied themselves chiefly to the
do
till
of the
The
Holy
children
(for the Students
Pietists,
Education of Children, as they
day with great, yea extraordinary success) begun
this
reproof their Parents

ness
3.
if
to
they was working an Lye or unrighteous-
yea some in their tender years came to witness strange things
of the Invisible worlds.
begun
to see
versity
this
Till at last Demetrius with his Craftsmen
and hear that not only
Motion
first
begun
to
in Lipzig,
(from which Unibut almost
spread abroad)
Germany and adjacent Contrys these Pietists did

persuade and turn away much People, saying that the Form of
Godliness without the Power thereof is meer Idolatry and superstition; Yea they saw, how that not only this their craft was endangered by these and set at nought, but also the Temple or Unithroughout
all
versities of the great
tion
(which
is
Goddess Dianoria or Reason and Ratiocina-
quite different
ing or Unction whereof
from that Dionoria or Understand-
John witnesses ijoh.
5.
19.
c.
2,
27.)
should be despised and her Magnificence (thus the Rectors in the

Universities are titled)
should be destroyed,
if
in
the place of
Dianoria, the Sophia from on high should be adored and instead of
The Journal
Temples or
of Kelpius.
Universities, the Hearts of
(Excuse me, dear Heart, that

Application, for the very same
men
51
should be consecrated.
thus run into an Ailegoricall
Comedy was
played as you read in
the Acts of the Apostels, only the time and persons changed.)
Thus the Battel and

The Anti-Pietists
Insurrection begun, which lasteth
till
this day.
(so their Adversaries are pleased to call them-
selves) betook themselves to the secular
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
Brunswick and Lunebourg, the course was otherwise, for

very beginning 3 Bishops or Supirts was removed their
same happened
in other
Countries and Cities,
in
the
offices; the
Erford, Lipzik,
as
Quedlinbourg, Halberstad, Hambourg, Hassen Cassel, where and

in
Switzerland lately several Ministers are removed and some ban-
Thus
ished the Country.
As
they increased under the Cross.
for
any peculiar Badge or Mark, they have none being above these
trifling affections)
or any peculiar Church
Ceremony or
which should cause a Shism or branch a new
sect.
ignorant of the wilderness wherein the Church

hitherto,
and
in
what
a glory she will appear
enough how
all the
is
are not
and hath been
when
she comes up
8. 5.
They
Reformations and Revolutions
in this
from the Wilderness leaning on her beloved.

see well
Discipline
For they
Cant.
last
Age
the
Aurora or Break of the day, mixed with many uncleanness
as well as theirs are
Vv^herein there
low-Pilgrim in
is
no stay (as
this
but Apparitions of the
my
Wilderness
fair colours of
beloved Brother and faithful Felstate Seelig
hath written) for they
are not the substance or sun itself though the various beautiful
Apparitions of the Skie, should entice one allmost enamoured in

them, and to mistake the
Harbinger for the King!
whom
they prepare themselves earnestly, some of 'm laying aside
to
meet
all
other
-engagements whatever, trimming their Lamps and adorning themselves
may
with white silky Holiness and golden Righteousness, that they
be found worthy,
when
the
Bridegroom comes, to receive him
^2
with confidence and joy and
Mother, where
Kingdom
He
to bring
him
Society.
in the
House of
their
new spicy wine of the

That we also may prepare
will drink with'm that
in all everlasting Progresses.
ourselves with our whole endeavours continually I wish heartily,

who do recommend you in the Clifts of the FoundatlonRock of
our Salvation, Jesus Christ. Remaining your fellow Traveller

this blessed work and best engagement.
In
Johannes Kelpius.
Dated
in the
Wilderness.
Ancient Astrological Chart, as Cast by the Early Mystics on ThB

WiSSAHICKON.
""
ERICUS TOBIAS BIORCK.

PASTOR OF THE SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCH AT CHRISTIANA (WILMINGTON,
PHOTOGRAPH FROM ORIGINAL CANVAS
IN
SWEDEN.
DEL.).
V.
LETTER TO REV. ERIC BIORCK, CHRISTIANA

(WILMINGTON), DELAWARE.
{Translation)
To
Rev. Magister Eric Biorck,

Pastor at Christianna.
Immanuel.
May
Jehovah remember
things of his elect
toward
May
his people, that
he
visit
thee for the sake of his favor
thou mayest rejoice
in the joy of his nation.
that thou mayest glory in his in-
in his salvation,
Amen
heritance.
Psalm
Very reverend
Sir
In your beloved
cvi. 45.
and Friend, Master and friend
Saviour, ever to be regarded by
January
that thou mayest see the good
thee,
may he remember
letter,
me with
in Jesus
our
written on January 10, and received on
through Mr. Jonas
17,
your fraternal love, the
fraternal love
epistle
got a twofold proof of
and the money.
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
from every blemish both of body
rites in the fear of the
obtain, by grace alone that
nature, through sincere imitation of him

son, the redemption of our
iii,
1-2; Phil,
How many
iii,
body (Rom.
11-15; Gal.
parasangs as yet
prefixed for myself, becometh
iv,
is
my
Lord, and
pattern by
to wit, the adoption as a
viii,
23.
Compare i John
Tim. iv, 8)
5; Apoc. xix, 8; 2
may be
known
53
which
distant
from the scope (aim)
to the fellow-soldiers (Asso-
54
i*M^ >*^^
fl^/^N.** r//^
<>^
p^
h*>
Society.
t^ri^
U.1
*ii^ 4-iu9
4r
Facsimile of Kelpius' Letter to Rev. Ericus Biork.
The Journal of
Kelphis.
55
dates) of those cricified and buried with (In) Christ (Gal.
and
whom
God,
rich in
mercy through Christ, kept
awakened and placed
lence) and
Jesus (Eph.
i,
in the
heavenly (places)
Better than myself no one
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
attributed rather to himself
withal his heart

ness
(i
was
He
Cor., xiii).
sustaineth
all.
naught of
evil does
endureth
am
spoke for form's sake, as
to divine charity,
is
believeth
all,
he
irritable,
all,
hopeth
all,
but he rejoiceth in
that you,
fully convinced,
it
where-
these things also, Paul being a wit-
he think, nor
Sometimes
verity.
affected
in
no wise
were, neither your sayings nor your
doings, but that with a sincere heart and with pure affections, as
becomes a true professor of true Christianity, you did unfold the

sentiments of your mind; thus in turn I would you believed that
your mirror reflected the image of him looking therein, i. e. of
yourself; only, had you not enough to do to be conformed to
Christ, our head, in point of a sincere heart and energies (virtues),
never could you notice or admire such
though you had
in others,
For who knoweth the business of a man, if not the spirit

of the man, the which is in him: but none among us knoweth the
And ye who act in the spirit
affairs of God, if not God's spirit.
of God, the same He acknowledges, and He would have wished
But the gross,
that, also, in others endowed with the same spirit.
tried
it.
earthly
man,
&
another
divine
(theologian)
does
stand (grasp) the things which are of the divine
deed these be to him
folly,
not under-
spirit, since in-
and thus (therefore) he cannot know
(understand) those things, inasmuch as (because) they be worthy

of being examined
amiable man, from
(judged) spiritually,
whom
joy, that you, namely, although being
ing)
busy
(office),
&
in
the
hall
Cor.
2,
14.
That
is,
have received singular (extraordinary)

(notwithstanding your be-
according to the manner of your duty
according to the custom of the Levites, encompassed
round about with animals (sportive?),
&
scrutinizing, instructing
56
interior or souls, should finally
worship
threefold cult of a minister,
which
grades, duties, &c.

I
&
sacrificing these into the sanctuary
and
might discourse
of, if I
yet looking into their
in spirit
&
&
should not think
knotty points, which
it
superfluous to begin
man nor with
an enumeration thereof in the presence of a learned

another end do
I allude (treat of) to these,
ship in Christ,
&
may
mention,
our
life in
(assume)
take
Of
in truth.
of the order of the same,
many
should have
&
Society.
than that our relation-
the body, of which you have
Nor
a greater increase.
is
made
that,
it
fast, he may throw into (infuse)

more righteous (way), & sin surrounding us (Hebr. 12, i) & the
concerns of life (2. Tim. 2, 9), as far as to these things it be expedient, against that we do set watch (a lying out on guard).
this sacred institution a
holding
Verily
confess with
you that the
necessaries of this life (as they
are called) or the things pertaining to life heap
the Christian soldier, with
(against)
for
IX.
(chap.
the
the mortal body weigheth
15.)
up great barriers
witness
down
Wisdom
&
the spirit
crusheth the understanding, an earthly vessel full of
many
cares.
Nor would you incongruously term these strange pursuits,' to

wit, we are living on strange (foreign) soil, exiles from Para'
dise,
travellers
David
Woe
is
this
in
world, nowhere secure, exclaiming with
me who am wandering
!
Cedariani (that I sojourn in Meshech,

tents of
The
Kedar!)
i.
e.
in
That
dwell
with the
among
the
darkened tents (tabernacles). Psalm 120,
5.
Cedariani, indeed, were the children of Ishmael, not going to
inherit with Isaac, the son of Sarah.

this
so long, dwelling
From which
cause
we
desire
dark tabernacle of our earthly house to be dissolved, in order
we may obtain an edifice, bright & glorious. But indeed,

Abraham may have interceded for Ishmael even and may
have been heard (granted) by the Lord; we also groan, burthened,
that
although
unwilling to be freed (unclothed), but clothed over

1
N. B. The Septuagint in their times read ^^")|P
with 1
(resh
= the
read with T {daleth
from the proud.
letter
= the
R).
letter
In the exemplar
D), Psalm
19, 14.
&
above, that
= mizzorim = strange,
(copy)
^^'P
of to-day
it
is
=z mizzedim
The Journal
our mortality may be absorbed
&
N. B.
Job. XI. 26.
But
of Kelpnis.
in life.
most loving
grieve,
more
little
expended upon the necessaries of
But does
seem
it
to
seem to you) from
Cor. V.
2.
i.
Cor. 15, 51.
of this hidden mystery of the resur-
rection of the Just, (I will say) not
But you
57
this
just now.
heart,
that
life?
you that you have hope
we
this cause that
time must be
grieve with you!
in a strait,
can perfectly serve
(does
it
God
in
I despair not so much of

There is also to me (hope)
(how very distant although as yet I may be (therefrom)) induced (as I am) chiefly by the following arguments
amongst others: I. Paul saith: i. Cor. 10, 31. Whether ye eat, or
drink, do all to the glory of God, & Col. 3, 17. Whatsoever ye
this life?
the victory
do both
words
in
&
the Lord,
pare Eph.
20.
5,
to life they
&
Thess.
I.
God
5,
&
But
18.
soever, he saith, pertaineth to the worship of

to be perfect.
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-
unto (by) man,
Testament,
use of an emblem,
therefore as
made manifest (open),
if
have taken heed thereunto, that (I
cares of the gentiles.
God
&
in the old
make
Hence
Matt.
6.
6, 8,
if
truth
in
desire of
ibid., v.
9,
Tim.
2, 4.
I say, if
not held captive by
10.
my
cause he
over
we
is
i.
Cor.
a slave of these things, he cannot serve
cannot serve two masters, but
returned into servitude,
&
in
food
(entirely)
life,
these very things,
all
but I shall have been found master of the same,
(no
becoming
not entangled (hampered) by the affairs (concerns, duties) of

2.
the
life,
shall be) free
end, content with
from the
from avarice manifestly averse,
&
to the
very particulars appertaining to
raiment (covering), see Tim.
rich
lawful
it
God
things for sacrifices, to
(were)
words
to eat, to drink,
ought be made subservient
present (supply) any hindrance, but an incentive
ought
com-
of the things pertaining
glory of God, as saith Paul, therefore the worship of
when
of Jesus,
the Father through him,
do eat for the most part
All these things can
works.
name
deed, that shall ye do in the
giving thanks to
how
6, 12.
Be-.
God, more-
far he shall have
be master over them, in so far does he
The Pennsyhania-German
58
God
render to
Society.
a perfect service in these things (hence appear the
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
&
concerning those which are to come
exhibited a perfect cult unto

to exhibit such to
God,
God, that
is,
but by ruling over them,
affairs,
&
IL The Virtue
Mark
9,
that
it is
possible now-a-days
that an holocaust perfect out of
convinced.
why
not therefore also rule over fleeting
powerful (potent) than Christ our Saviour
&
been taught thoroughly, he exclaims:
through him that strengtheneth
me
though he would say: even
13. as
so
5.
By (with)
is
not,
therefore,
that
having
things
me by
shall
&
shew
an
Christ, Phil,
I
can do
who
can do every thing,
prayer, believing, ye shall obtain, Matt. 21. 22.

It
all
without Christ
as
with Christ
with express words promised: whatsoever ye

exception.
(or, strengtheneth
inner, vital, substantial, radical force).
nothing, John 15.
more
(Has)
Preserver?
can perform
&
world more valiant
Is the prince of this
not Paul of long-standing experience in these matters
4,
God
not also in these very matters exhibit to
perfect service?
is
the saints of old have
Efficacy of a lively Faith: Christ saith unto
6.
17,
Why
things?
y)
All things are possible to him that believeth.
23.
Luke confirms
&
he
not worried,
is
by not serving secular (worldly)
&
am
these things can be offered, I
us,
(mind)
things
acquired
not yet acquired, he
That however
by no disquiet]
affected
he without subjects) but
is
the things possessed, not in a possessed
have asked
in
that without any
my
inability
any
further (more amply), since as hath been shewn, through Christ
we may
John
get all power, according to that well-known passage of

12.
I,
Whosoever, NB. whosoever indeed have received
him, to those he hath given that power, to become sons of

therefore,
even
as
hath
all
these,
if
(we be)
he himself
sons
&
testified!
God:
coheirs of all things that Christ hath,

:
He
that believeth
on me, the same
things with me, or he shall even do greater things than
John
14,
12.
(the
works that
do, shall he
do also;
&
The Journal of
Kelpiiis.
And
greater works than these shall he do.)
59
who
he
conquered (towards the possibility of conquering!)

give to
with
this
is
me on my
with
Father on
throne, as I also have sat
his throne,
Whatsoever
4.
5,
sit
my
Apoc,
God
begotten of
is
shall I
a victor
Epistle,
I.
&
overcometh the world,
the victory, that hath overcome the world, even our Faith.
what
Finally, in the third place,
&
nism (skepticism)
causes, certainly,
doubting to blush,
is
that
perfection, with
which we are bound up.
energy thereof,
(to
epithet),
finally,
my
Pyrrho-
well-known love of
Paul, describing the
use an hyperbolic, though not incongruous
the omnipotence
golden to Rom. chapter 8th,
the
in
But
after a long enumeration of the parts, he exclaims:
in all these things
so are
down
And John
3, end.
have
shall
him
to
we
we
more than we conquer,
surpass
would
the
Who,
conquerors, through the Christ loving you.
fore, in these least things,
&
despair of victory, as
more
there-
the neces-
if
could present such obstacles unto
saries of life, or secular concerns,
the Christ-loving soul, that she could not please her bridegroom of
Whether
the perfect?
who
or no, he
before the foundation of the world,
&
loved his
gave to us
son, in the likeness of ourselves, unto a
will he, I say, donate his spirit sparingly,

inperfect,
mixed, inadequate?
to say: a suspicion)
God! John
he
measurable
&
saith,
entire.
imperfectly, or a spirit,
with such a thought
God
He
gave
spirit
without measure,
himself, of a verity,
now with what
hath poured out

fully,
exceeding
Hence,
his
is
sap
nourished (poured through), with the same,
(are nourished).
(not
&
imthe
spirit the vine
also, the
concerning us Paul, Tit.
also,
e.
we
i.
the vine,
branches
3,
6.
he
holy spirit upon us, richly, opulently, plenti-
all desire,
Also, in how much

much do we bid farehow far we love Christ, in
compare Rom.
5, 5.
are impelled by the spirit of Christ, in so
well to the
so
most ignominious death,
&
of a loving soul concerning so loveworthy a
branches thereof, John XV.,
we
in his son
only begotten
the Baptist eloquently testifieth the contrary of Christ:
To whom,
is
Away
own
his
far do
spirit of this
we
world
or, in
pursue with hatred worldly
until the perfected love
(i
John
4,
&
perishable things;
18) thrusteth out every fear
6o
of all enemies,
&
Society.
the accompHsher crowneth the conquerors with a
perfect crown.
But
to revert to myself:
How
happeneth
it,
my
Kelpius! that unto thy God, so love-
&
rich, so liberal
worthy, so
ways transcending thine
in endless
every desire, in these least things, in temporal
&
things, in foreign things, in external
&
say eternal
spiritual),
say,
thou not very sure that
same
What
is
Man,
indeed,
is
To
these
&
&
accom-
&
hood, yet, nevertheless,
man
is
&
in seven years
perfect, he
things constituting the
is
that ac-
similar objections,
born, not immediately on the
first year,
all
art
now, while the very
judging without regard to persons
nor immediately in the
with
&
it,
sort of an account, I pray, wilt thou give, here-
after, to the judge,
answer:
now?
even
it
have shewn
possible even
cording to the works of every one

I
scarcely shewest
saints of old
your leader, your guide, your helper
spirit survives,
plisher?
it
these thou hast not hitherto
in
&
shewn the acme of perfection

Knowest thou not that all the
affairs, in perishable
transitory affairs (not to
first
day,
he reaches man-
furnished (endowed)
human body:
granted, even
if
all
& the whole body subject to various

accidents, vicissitudes, sorrows & diseases: & the mind (subject to)
instructions, chastisements, & exercises & an infinite number of
the
members be very
delicate,
other things: yet he despaireth not in
reach the age of
manhood.
mortal generation,
if
how much more
(are they so) in the regenera-
when (where)
tion,
fication,
namely,
is
various degrees of perfection are given.
accomplished through
generation
(just as the natural
&
renovation
But
that he will once
all these,
these things are certain in the
&
faith
filiation,
Justi-
by one act indeed

so
to
speak)
but
sanctification are to be pursued throughout our entire
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
reach the goal,
i.
e.
the age of
Apoc. 22.
that
&
which
is
that
well-known saying:
good, retrogradeth
holy road, regresseth.
He
that doth not advance in
he that doth not progress on the
Namely, even
as
we advance from
child-
The Journal of
hood
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
go to the age of manhood, or the age of perlife to
come, but in
And
they must be extirpated.
away by degrees;
this life: likewise, also, in
the very
when
just as,
above the horizon, the darkness

pass
so,
turn,
in
must be overcome; from
this life, sins
6l
Kelpius.
bottom
&
the root
the sun ascendeth
gradually dispelled, the mists
is
standing at mid-day, he triumph com-
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
pletely over darkness.

itual
conducteth the
war unto
that passage in Paul,
But
perfect victory.
Cor. 13, end,
i.
of this
is
faith according to
life,
not of the
life
come: indeed our errors on account of the necessaries of life (of

which I began speaking) belong to this life, not the future one,
to
therefore,
we must
ites sin in that,
here triumph over these.
Nor
did the Israel-
because they did not cast out the Canaam'tes in one
day, or in one year, but in that, they believed not the
God
nor
his
who
sibilities:
God was
promise of victory, as
although
I also,
thorough manhood (Ecclesiastes,
my
of
am
land worldly desires,
I daily
bent upon
it,
He
&
29)
make
may
in
vain,
&
But
that worthless, cowardly
&
Matt. 25),
the victory,
&
all
Canaanites, yet
greater advances in the
camp
be crowned with true quietude of
19, 2.
&
&
truly, according to the likeness of
timid servant (compare Apoc. 21,
should despair in this
life
of the gain (advantage)
8.,
&
He
were commanding
should not obey His command of per-
should accuse the Lord, as
impossibilities, of severity, I
fection.
if
to
have not yet cast out
soul as a perfect conqueror of all enemies, having vanquished
utterly extirpated them.
of
because
have not yet attained
consequently not
that I
of the enemies, until that I
7.
command
were commanding impos-
were willing, but
afterwards
unwilling so
if
if
Matt.
5,
48. of perfect sanctification. Lev. 11, 44. chapter
Pet.
I,
15, 16.
I.
victory, I should delay the
should distrust
war
Him, He
offering aid
against the enemies, assailing
me
62
Society.
present world, to the future world, where no enemfes are

given; I say by doing this, I should sin,
deservedly would I be
this
&
hurled at last into the lowermost darkness, inasmuch as I,

would not go out during the six days (as those would not,
were
idle),
day,
I
i.
e.,
i.
in this life, I
e.
in the life to
would
seek the
manna on
who
who
the Sabbath
come.
have rested with the foolish virgins, the bridegroom having

& the gates having been closed, I was knocking, i. e. in
entered,
were
this life, as if it
of Christ,
&
I did not
go forth to
walk in the perfect light

went about the will-o'-the-wisp, but
meet him a-shouting with the prudent ones,
night, I neglected to
the like of her I
was midnight as yet, &

was coming on. In this manner
while
it
&
the gate open,

I
the bridegroom
should be like a child, who,
he were to reach manhood hereafter, should foreknow
how
if
great
hardships were yet to be overcome with great pain, to obtain
wherewith he should be fed

to be
undergone
cultivating the
&
mind towards
how
clothed,
&
at the schools,
great annoyances were
chastisements to be sustained for
the acquisition of prudence in con-
cerns of business: I say, considering (weighing)
&
thoroughly these
other grievances of that sort, he should despair of obtaining
age in this
virile
life,
&
place his trust in death, as
if
dead, he
should at least come ofF a perfect man.
But dropping this fool, I

have chosen to imitate the infant Redeemer, who grew both in age
& wisdom before God & men: this one remained hidden from the
twelfth year of his age for eighteen years.
but he lived well,
I say,
went
i.
e.
He
remained hidden,
he grew from day to day, until he
forth, in his thirtieth year,
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
&, sitting at the right hand
do the will of
his
mine
Holy
my
am
Father Abba.
perfected in mine infirmity.
both willing
And
Spirit
infirmities; for
with unspeakable sighing (Rom.
complished! in me, that I
is
of this
omnipotent Father, he sendeth
&
8,
26)
unto
all
me &
in
&
he ac-
at times thoroughly
so the virtue of the
Almighty
The Journal of
I
believe,
Kelpius.
63
according to the testimony of the entire
therefore,
That our Father wisheth, wisheth, I say,

from every fault: that God wisheth they
may luithhold themselves from every sin; mankind were created
by Him for justice, &" He donated them zvith the spirit of His
Son.
That Christ desireth that those be purified from every sin,
Scripture with
all Saints:
that his children be free
whom,
for the expiation of

virgin soul
is
he himself became a victim, z^ that the
up
to be delivered
him; a virgin, I
to
say, chaste
devoid of every wrinkle or vice, he entrusted her unto

the
Holy
Spirit effecteth that this will of the Father
be accomplished in us as yet in this

I
may have been
borne
my
have always advanced with equal
&
nay rather have fallen oftentimes,
&
whirlpool
filthy
& may
subjected to infinite temptations
cross daily, nor
of
is'
And, although, thus
life.
mire (Psalm
XL.
that,
as to
3.)
&
That
the Son
us.
far
have
steps,
into the horrid
have drawn near the
gate of death (Psalm IX.), insomuch that with the same David,
I should
fiercely!
have cried out: (Psalm 38.) Jehovah, turn not upon me

Punish me not in thine anger! [This chastisement may
be of the healing not of the killing one: with the rod of love of a
father toward his son, Hebr.
12.,
not of a judge pursuing with
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
the long lasting absence of

it
within
me &
good dwelleth not
me,
in
didst not spare
him over
his death, to the
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
Thine anger, that
a stranger to sin, but
&
madest an execration for exe-
may become
ingrafted in that similitude of
into death,
crable me, that I too
gratuitous consolations,
without.
but sin dwelleth in me, against
didst give
Thy
about, that I begin to perceive nothing
ousness dwelleth in
Thou
Thy chastisement
Thy dreadful judg-
wrestling with the terrors of God.]
heart, the continued representation of
end that the sinful body may be cast
be in bondage of sin any longer, for in
uninjured on account of
my
sin.
my
oflE,
limbs there
is
nor that
nothing
VI.
LETTER TO MARY ELIZABETH GERBER IN

VIRGINIA.
To Mary
Elizabeth Gerber in Virginia,

{Translation.)
October 8th, 1704.

Contents:
An
answer
to her letter,
expression of
my
Immanuel!
Granted the
opinion concerning the Quakers.
our Lord, most esteemed
,OUR
which she requests an
in
&
Eph.
request.
i,
beloved missive of Aug. 23 rd
&
ments,
of God.
I,
duly received.
'4,
you would awake from the death-like

world,
sin of the
in that
of the Saints,
C,
revered Sister:
I rejoice in that
slumber of
In Jesu
17-23.
&
&
from worldly
senti-
you earnestly covet the inheritance
would walk
in the light of the
Son
likewise, entertain the confident hope, that
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,
same unto the day of Jesu
perfect the
regards other matters, &c them also
(less scattered in the
communities of the present day,
bound, expecting the hope of Sion) (Zion) these

hearts, for
God,
&
(the Friends?)
pray for them
your
&
in spirit
let us carry in
our
love requesteth of me, all
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
religions so prodigiously increase, but also there have
manner
of angels
&
spirits (i
John
64
4.7.2.
Pet. 2,
&
in all
gone forth
i.
all
Matth. 24.
The Journal of
Cor. II. 19.
II. I.
arming
gregations, one
Lord
Tim.
I.
&
I.)
4.
they have instituted con-
Here Temples of the

Christ
Here the Orthodox
against the other.
Here the Catholic Church of

Here the Chosen Reformed
Evangelical
Here
the again-born
Here the Folk (People)

Now some of these have their
baptized (Anabaptists?)
ing in the Light,
65
Kelpiiis.
etc.
of
gift of beauty, strength, might,
God, walk-
distinct praise,
power, wisdom, order, light &c., the
which, indeed, are apparent to an impartial eye, whilst at the same

time,
we
meal,
&
ornaments but piece-
perceive, that they have received said
&
not in the highest
hath received
this,
most irrefragable perfection: the one
them hath
the other that, none (not one) of
received all (ornaments) alone in the highest degree: all in part,
One
not one in united harmony.

the rest
&
possesseth something apart
very similar to the image of perfection, which
Howbeit every one vaunteth

most comely amongst all these women, & the
as
from
wanting
wanting
to
being the best
&
to the other, the latter, in turn, hath something, that
the former, &c.
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
chief place: yet
why
But unto
Jerusalem.
not agreed amongst themselves, as
this
very day are
which of them deserveth the

reaching an agreement? They
to
speak of their
have no such intention: they even contend among themselves, but
who
not as did erstwhile the Disciples of Christ, as to
should be
Grace (devotion), but which of
in the Mystery
them be most accomplished in the mystery
regarded chief
of
of malice, the arch
heretic, yea, even the Babylonian harlot herself: nor are they con-
tent with reviling, those that are in
lacking the sword

rage, that
it
make swords
moves
to pity
power
of their tongues,
first,
&
with such blind
that they are unable to recognize
themselves; second, nor those against

thirdly, least of all are they
use the sword, those
whom
they are fighting;
aware of what they profess
(this
is
especially true of the last).
"Who are they, pray?"

& how shall I learn to
ask,
You, esteemed
know them,
Sister, will
that I
may
probably
not err In
my
66
judgment,
&
become
Society.
& come into

Answer: This
a partaker of their contention,
danger of the judgment, that needs must follow? "
taught by Paul, Gal. 4. Coloss. 2., by the Apocalypse & by the

Song of Songs of Sol., as followeth, namely: They all are sisters
amongst themselves s children of Jerusalem, but not of her that is
is
but of her that
freej
serve
is
weak
&
months
ently, as
&
&
extol
They
(statutes).
own
&
chil-
observe days
&
manner
&
differ-
others, (hence the origin of the strife,
among them).
that they serve their
&
thraldom with her
seasons, each in his particular
compared with the
recognize as good
& in
clear (see p. 9. 10. Gal. 4), that they all
paltry tenets
feasts
schism or sects
gate,
a handmaid
Which becometh
dren.
Yet
tenets,
in this they are all agreed,
which they
&
love,
which they
true; these tenets they exalt, defend, propa-
before
others
(proselytize),
All of which
etc.
(however profligate some of them may be) have a
(sects, etc.)
semblance of wisdom
&
truth
wherefore,
love of wisdom.
Col. 2.
Of
these
Paul calleth
also,
such tenet-service or living according to law
all
" Philosophy " or
they teach in the
(people)
what
Holy Writ, but the body
wisdom & truth are not therein
schools of the present day, of each distinctly, as well as of
truth they hold, so far as demonstrable in
or the entity herself
&
the occult
(in these meetings), but in Christ, in
treasures of
wisdom
&
whom
there
hidden
lie
all
understanding, yea the entire plenitude of
the Deity dwelleth corporally in
Through Him we
Him.
rendered entirely participant of the entity of
from (mentioned in) Holy Writ.

example of circumcision. Col.
2,
all
tenets
are
deduced
(As Paul adduceth a renowned

V. ii), but such tenets
as are
not mentioned in the Scriptures, these appertain (are referable) to
mankind, commandments
15.
9.
Isaiah
&
doctrines; Vol. 2. 22.
church-women do more homage than to

"shadows of the body" by Paul, Col.
"10.
be,
I.
N.B. Matth.
(Esa) 29. 13. unto which, indeed, some of these
Whereby
those,
2.
17.
which are
Hebr.
called the
8.
5.
chap.
what mind they

bond-woman & not
they are clearly recognized, of
namely, children of Sinai or Hagar, of the
of the free understanding, yea of Sinai, even of his great splendor,
The Journal
light, spirit, clearness,
New
is
enlightenment, mutes
Testament, far more splendidly than
more
else
spiritual
Thus
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
we shall soon speak more amply hence

many a one, inexperienced in the word
;
whose
senses
were not practiced
dis-
in
woman
&, likewise, regarded the bond-slave for the
herself,
the end that you, esteemed Sister,
error, I shall briefly touch
Dove
the free and only
of
upon what
is
may
not
meant by
Woman,
New
Solomon, or the
the rightful
recognize both more readily.
the
fall into
the
Jerusalem, so that, by comparing the one with the other, you
New
ex-
abideth,
still
criminating, have honored the bond-woman, instead of the
Son.
it
wherefore, up to this time, naught
Christendom
hath come to pass, that
of justice,
of Zion hath been
only in the desert, whereof

it
of Kelpius.
may
Isaiah saith, chap. 65, that in the
Jerusalem, which the Lord willed to create on earth (N.B.
on earth, &, therefore, not
in
heaven, though she descendeth from
heaven) the voice of lamentation

Likewise saith
more.
shall be
&
of
weeping
What
a repentant heart
else
is
complain
&
the greatest pain,
(regeneration), John
again
New
In the
&
heard no
weep more, than
What
the sting of death, than sin?
us with greater grief, than sin committed
wailing
shall be
the Apocalypse, chap. 21. 4. death
in
no more, nor sorrow, nor wailing (crying), nor pains.
But whereof doth

of sin?
He
if
Where
is
filleth
the loudest
not in the anxiety of being born
16.21.
Hence, the sense hereof
is:
Jerusalem there shall be no more sinners, none that
stand in need of repentance, none that suffer the pains of regeneration:
(as
we
read in the last verse:
Naught
enter therein, nor that worketh abomination
regenerated ones only, holy, just,

I
John
3.9. chap. 8, 10.
Heb.
II.
26.
Luke, 20. 36.
are laid in
fall of the first
&
upon the
that
who,
In brief:
vile shall
sin
no more,
therefore, die
no more,
The
entire creation
Adam, under which even
is
falsehoods), but
new men, who can
9.28.,
neither bodily nor spiritually, Apoc. 21, 4.
John
which
&
to this
Cor. 15, 26. 54.

curse and
death,
(creature), by the
hour
all
creatures
68
have groaned, Rom.
atonement
&
the second
Adam,
Society.
18-25. shall be completely removed by the
8,
efficacy of the everlasting
redemption in the blood of
when He
offered up on the cross,
come a
shall
second time bodily (I say bodily, because some would have
whereas
spiritually,
shall be both;
it
still,
the mystery of devotion as yet see A.A.
Thess,
wonderful
ful,
of
that
10.
5,
&
in
i,
Who
8. calleth
&
but
it
only in
&
with His Saints
&
the faith-
all
the manifestation of the children
are the children of the resurrection, Luke, 20. 36.
when
prisoners will
all
each one will return to his parental inheritance, the
which we have
lost in
Old Testament
had but the
is
10.2. (acts of Apostles)
appear glorious in
shall be the year of the great jubilee,
be set free,
it
with (thus readeth the original text)
which Paul, Rom,
God.
This
8.
He
however,
is
our
firstlings,
first
Of
filled.
father
this the
Adam, whereof
Apostles
&
the entire
Christians
first
but not the fullness, not the perfection (Rom.
23) (Cor. 13, 9-2 Cor.
the
5. 7.)
which they awaited,
as they
had, indeed, so plentifully received the coming (future) of Christ

in the spirit, as
They
hour.
no congregation or church after
possessed all
manner
Him
even to this
of spiritual gifts both for their
inner glorification, as well as for the outer working of miracles.
Thus,
in their
community, there was not heard any longer the voice
&
of groaning, weeping
(lA.
2, 46. 47.
13).
If
C.
lamentation, but that of joy
3, 31.
Rom.
5, 3-5.
&
an unclean one, or a hypocrite or a
liar
rejoicing
i
Pet. 4.
wanted
to join
Phil. 4, 4.
them, he either was liable to instant death, or he was punished in

the presence of all,
&
the hidden things of his heart
became
manifest, so that he had to fall upon his countenance (prone)
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
was up already and doing
though they had enough already
&
Apoc. 3)
(grasped)
for
simplicity, the
satisfied
they had
seized
wanted no more
the
which alone seeketh the King's
with any
in
yet they became not prouder
gifts, until
their days.
&
filled,
(as in
as
Laod.
utmost dove-like
heart, that
is
not
that she have the Giver himself, (not
The Journal of
(much
to say
&
himself
along: Come, Lord Jesu! yea, the Spirit
all
participant of
And
Come!
the bride said,
all this, saith
69
that she loveth the Giver for the sake of the
less)
but to exclaim
gifts)
Kelphis.
he that beareth witness of
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! "
And, pray, dear

bridegroom?
But
only?
then,
demption of
how
Sister,
Or,
can the bride be prepared without the
what
this body, for
Col. 3, 4.
Did
i-ii.)
which
John
Jesus,
all
8, 15.
3, 2. 2.
members
&
Phil. 2, 20. 21.
Peter
the re-
of Christ do, with

i
3. entirely.
Cor. 15.
Cor.
2.
5,
Christ, then, in spirit only ascend into heaven? &,
is He to be expected in
whom his disciples did see
hence,
in the spirit
of the resurrection from death
Paul, so anxiously cry (Rom.

entirely.
wrought
the perfection to be
is
spirit
only?
Shall the selfsame
to ascend bodily,
from the
Mount
come back again, just as his disciples saw Him ascending

into heaven: why, then, do our Laodiceans of the present day declare, that He hath (is) come already?
"He is come," they say
of Olives
(as I myself have heard and read in their writings).
we
come. Friends,
Apostles
whom
&
bide none other! "
Is,
then,
"He
whom
he,
primitive Christians waited for, an other one, than he,
they had
& who
already ascend,
(seen)
sent
them from
The
heaven after ten days the promise of the Father, namely:
Holy
as aforesaid,
do the
the Apocalypse, cry
spirit
we
most godly,
tion,
hear at
as
you
"
Yes, dear Friends
do
Him
Or, did they await
Spirit?
but not thereafter, because they
then,
merely for these ten days,
now had His
himself
&
all
Why,
&
weeping, lamenta-
ululation as for one dead?
bridegroom?
If,
do rejoice by virtue of being moved by His Spirit
all
why,
bide none other,
your meetings, especially when these are
say, the voice of sobbing, of
is
Is
howas the
made manifest among you at times,

other congregations) O, then, do for once
(since) Spirit of Christ
amongst
then,
this the jubilant voice of the bride for her
as
spirit?
the bride, at the conclusion of

"
Come, Lord Jesu

If He be come & ye
yea anguish, sorrow, pain
ever, ye
is
the
just
give
70
honor unto
God &
that you
confess:
Society.
have, indeed, received a
glimpse of His beauty through His spirit in your hearts, but never
yet have ye seen the
Lord
of Glory himself with
Him
wherewith His Mother shall crown
Or, had ye seen Him, your heart would
exaltation!
rejoice in
much, that your joy would nevermore be taken from you (John
so
1
His royal diadem,
on the day of His
6,
Him
whom
22), since, as you say, you must at every meeting await
anew.
Yea,
ye had but His
if
the Father giveth that
He
spirit,
the other Paraclete,
remain supreme (John 14, 16), remain-
would not begin
ing and dwelling in you, ye
to rejoice as at a
woman
marriage feast for the time, but with the
in the desert
&
her seed, together with the Spirit, ye would cry day and night:
"
Come, Lord Jesu! "
&
But
His coming.
patiently await
be the holy people, God's only people, whence cometh
number
horrid
it,
if
of the uncircumcised, of the unclean, of the abominable
&
liars,
of all
manner
of sinners,
is
among
far greater
Have not your
than the number of the just?
tenets
ye
that the
&
you,
(statutes),
symbols or sacraments, whereby ye are distinguished from other

communities, become, at present, the pall of (for)
vices,
under
cover of which the worst hypocrites can conceal, yea really do conceal themselves
any
Fox
Saith old George
though
statute,
it
way
be the
in his
Journal
As
soon as
of the Apostles, hath become a
Now,
among women,
cloak for hypocrites, they are an abomination before God.
consider your society the most beautiful
should
that
free
is
community
from blemish
&
hereditary evil, Cant. 4. 10., as the
of the first-born, begotten in the perfection of justice?
community of the Apostles &

& a shadow of the future
(community)
How could ye be the (community) of which
they (Apostles & first Christians) prophesied, & for whose manifestation they did so earnestly pray? The best among you must work
Alas, ye are not even like unto the

first
Christians,
who were but
a picture
out their salvation with fear
&
trembling
is
the spirit of
spirit of
&
the
Jesus, the
Hagar
new Adam,
&
trembling.
Hagar
Sarah, which
is
&
Sinai,
Now,
Heb.
the spirit of fear

12, 21.
the spirit of the
Mediator
&
new
&
not the
creation in
Founder of the new cove-
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& (the spirit) crieth: Abba, Father, Rom. 8, 15. Gal, 4, 6.

& worketh in us a perfect love, which expelleth fear, John 4, 18.
& (is) a joy on the day of Judgment, as (felt) by those who
nant,
is
have penetrated from death unto

this
joyous confidence
wrought by
from Zion
heart
&
&
life,
assurance, read
John
Rom.
&
the
31-39., which are
mercy (grace) & faith, (which proceedeth)

Glad Tidings, which (spirit) gladdeneth the
maketh
to feel
it
gay towards
&
God & man,
for ever complaining,
so that
do good unto
gladly,
But the
suffer all things, serve every one, &c.

is
8.
the spirit of
without compulsion, willingly
Sinai
(Concerning
5, 24.
we
all
will,
men,
servile spirit of
mourning, murmuring, anguishing
tormenting the conscience forever more,
&
&
yet being unable to help,
Now
nor yet to impart strength, since always vexing).
ye have,
indeed, caught a glimpse (of the true community, but deeming the
same endangered
as yet
give those coming
&
fixing a limit (measure), therefore
(to you)
you
opportunely, to understand that ye
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)
have forgotten you,
phizing (addressing) others, while writing to you.
in apostro-
But may the
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
former leaders have been but misleaders,
&
those
that offered oil unto me, were the petty merchants in Chaldea.
Tell me, where

resteth
He
&
whom my
soul loveth,
to
pray,
the fairest of
of one of the
where
I
He
may but
among the herds of His companions! Where,

women, so that I may not become enamored
women, described above, & be contaminated by her.
wander
is
pastureth,
on the noon-day of His greatest power, that

fro
72
Hath
the only dove, indeed, flown heavenward, or,
(is)
be as yet on earth,
am
city
I to find
&
on earth,
Society.
she
tell
me,
which
in
The answer
her abode?
was
forest she resteth,
She
is:
is,
and
Apoc.
(wilderness).
leaning upon her friend.
when
which
indeed, as yet
glorious to behold in the days of the Apostles.
But, after she had given birth to the self-same boy, she
desert
she
if
in
whence
12.,
Cant.
8,
5.
fled into the
she shall soon ascend,
(Song of Songs).
And
she shall see the above-mentioned daughters, then will she
carefully prove them; the queens themselves
Cant.
praise her.
esteemed Sister say: "This answer
understand
Describe unto
it.
feathers, so that I
may know
may have found
the concubines will
me
hear
I
;
though
it
&
her
me, without concealing
tell
I shall
my
can not
the dove in her true form,
Yes,
her.
her,
too obscure (dark)
is
anything, her place of abode; for

until that I
&
Meseemeth, however,
(9).
8.
6,
not cease from seeking,

should be at the price of
& blood, yea, though it cost me my life." Answer: May

Lord strengthen her in her resolution, & vouchsafe that this
zeal may nevermore become extinguished in her, but ever burn
my
goods
the
brightly!
best.
we
proportion to
I, in
can neither find nor
come
my
slight ability, shall gladly
Nevertheless, I must, esteemed Sister, overtly
tell
do
my
her; that
know this dove, except we ourselves

we be such, forthwith we fly into
as dovesj &, as soon as
be-
the
This wisdom was not concealed from

Psalm 55. 7. 8. Would that I had
wings as doves, that I might fly & perchance remain! Lo, then
would I fly afar off & lodge in the wilderness. Selah. But whoso
wilderness to join the other.
David; hence
desire to
fly, if
his yearning.
he
danger, wherein
in
Isaiah
If ye
c.
30, 15.
remained
hoping, ye
fly
ye
still,
only at their beloved
Jer.
14,
Therefore, the Lord saith
lO.
would be aided; by being quiet & by

Hence they chatter only & mourn
strong.
have become
clefts of the rock.
a soul perisheth.
N.B.
would be
with Isaiah (38, 15.

their eyes
not well, will inevitably plunge himself into
many
59, 11.) as a dove day

as doves' eyes.
&
Cant.
Cant,
i,
&
night.
And when
15. c. 4, i. they look
hide themselves in His wounds, as in the

2, 14.
To
the end that they
may
not, like
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of Kelpius.
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& decoyed (or timid, without heart) dove Ephraim, now

& then run to Assyria, Hosea 7, 11., imploring of
these spiritual, of those corporal (bodily) food & aid, for there be
dove-vendors as well as oil-vendors, to whom the silly doves &
the foolish
invoke Egypt,
Oh, he that
virgins run.
The
beware of them.
rightly
knoweth
oil signifieth
these, in verity
doth he
the Spirit, the dove, the proper
form of the bride of the lamb, which
Thus
love.
is
noted especially, according to the number of the
five
there are to be
prudent
&
five
foolish virgins, five things, that our five senses be not injured in
their maidenly, dovelike simplicity in Christ, 2, Cor. 11,3.

10. 16.,
namely:
The
i.
4. the oil, 5. the lamps.
bridegroom,
But,
Matth.
2.
the virgins, 3. the vendors,
may God
give her the understanding
of the spirit of Jesu Christ, that she, according to the admonition

of Paul, 2.
Tim.
2,
15.
may
word
rightfully divide the
&, after she have flown from the
filth
of the
edge (recognition) of the Crucified for her
of truth,
world by the knowl-
sin, 2. Pet. 2, 20.
nor,
indeed, purchase the oil or light herself for the bridegroom; nor
forthwith regard some, though they have
oil
in
prudent virgins, because these also have arisen
at
great schism (falling off),

in sin of the
world.
&
God
but, indeed, a great, yea Egyptian
foxes spoil the vineyard, even
sit
not only at
have mercy! there
&
(wife), Apoc.
catch
&
from the temeration of (with)

I, 5.
chap.
7, 14.
Rome &
is
palpable darkness.
men
Should the virgins that are cleansed (washed

of the lamb,
as
will testify to the universal slumber
Verily, the vendors
the great church, where, alas,
little
their lamps,
midnight of the
& who now
kill
in
little oil,
Even the
the doves.
off)
by the blood
their first
v/cman
follow the lamb, Apoc.
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,
slain for us,
been ransomed by
it.
whithersoever
But how am
it
I to
goeth, because
walk,
in this
I,
too,
have
Sardian disper-
74
among
sion,
draggle
my
so
many church women,
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.
love J which hateth duplicity.

2. 15,
may
that I
not
soil
Answer:
bride, yea,
6, 24,
2.
14, 15.
6,
an essential longing thereafter, to the end that
&
be perfected in her,
Eph.
Is
3, 17.
it
she be rooted in
Come
thus?
Nothing can harm her
She
on!
desert
on
i.
By
dragon!
hosts,
the lamb,
Cant.
rapt of
slighting the same:
is
most assuredly nourished
very nigh at hand) after the
is
first,
dawn,
as the
wards, fair as the moon, then, chosen as the sun, but
vanguards of
is
eagle's wings, where, even
expiration of which, she will break forth,
rible as
this
founded
In order to prevent this the
early.
unto her time appointed (which
&
so long as she abide therein,
she herself forfeit not this love, either,
By breaking forth too

only mean is, to fly into the
now, the woman, the bride of
i.
If she find, I say, this love in
Jac. 4, 4.
or, 2.
whoso would
genuine
such a simple
if
Cor.
nor be-
If she be
&
be conscious of a manly, strong
(uncolored) love in her to Jesus
John
c.
Society.
"O
6, 9.
rightly understand this
all, to
yes!
after-
finally, ter-
would she
say,
be preserved from the
"
But, dear Soul
pray do not entertain melancholy thoughts con-
cerning these subjects, nor imagine strange things, for in virginal
and consider
God
stand
all that I
have already
the will
patient,
sion, yet
it
will not, as I
do not doubt, but that
God
But,
be praised,
But,
if
not?
if
she under-
& may He
Then,
let
grant
her be
time might come, when it would

must now hasten towards the concluhope, be disagreeable, if I talk a little more
I
This
about the wilderness.
sense
then,
& the accomplishment.

& make no ado, for the
be serviceable unto her.
tual.
said, I
will vouchsafe prosperity (thrivingness).

all In its first sense,
weigh
If she in childlike simplicity
lovej all things are contained.
is
twofold:
i.
Corporal
&
2.
Spiri-
In the corporal sense, there are again two divisions (yet

is
unfathomable).
Herein
it
signifieth those
who
this
fled into
the wilderness before the great apostasy (falling oE), soon after the
times of the Apostles
(whereof the
life
of the primitive fathers
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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.
that hath fallen off
(apostatized),
is
meant, which
great city of Babylon Sc Egypt, in which the

true
members
of Christ
&
salem are hidden, amongst
woman,
called the
is
that
all the
is,
children of the higher (upper) Jeru-
all religions
excluded, Apoc. 12. at the end
"hidden" or not manifest).
&
stations in
life, as
(for desert signifieth 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,
&
will take counsel to extirpate these hidden
ones of the Lord, Psalm 83,
4.
Coloss. 3,3.
himself secretly in his tent (pavilion).

state of a soul in the wilderness, I
But
But
Lord hideth
the
as regards the actual
cannot at present describe.
If
She, dear soul! become rightly participant of the dove-kind, she

will, as aforesaid, also obtain eagle's
will she experience,
what
it
wings
to fly thereinto.
Then
be, to chatter (coo) as a lonely turtle-
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
will let her
the secret
&
How
7.
hidden wisdom. Psalm
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
will teach her to
know
the hidden
God &
leadeth His saints so wonderfully, Isaiah 45, 15.

seeth in secret
Matth.
6, 6.
&
Saviour,
the Father
She will experience, how
who
who
this friend
of her soul sweeten the bitter waters of tribulations and sufferings

in
march through
Matth. II.
15.
the
wood
of life
&
mild yoke of His
cross,
Exod.
76
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
the hard rock in
fresh fountain of the
Society.
droplets of grace (mercy) of heavenly dew,
as a
baptism of grace.
when
shouting,
the
This will be unto her a
Holy Ghost
shall stir in her heart
move
the waters, so that the fount shall be poured forth from

out her eyes in tears of pure joy. Oh, blessed baptism of water!
Who
would not daily, yea, hourly, be baptized thus! But there

followeth also a night upon this day, wherein the fiery column, as
God in the east, will preserve her, which is the baptism in fire of
the Son, until that, at last, the old birth, bred in Egypt, and
longing for the Egyptian pots of
Then
together with Moses.
new
birthj that
was born
shall completely die out
lust,
will the true Jonah-Jesus lead the
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
Oh, who would not long
yea, lead her thereinto.
(wilderness)
bloometh
which
as the lilies!
so joyful,
is
Yes,
Lebanon
joicing, for the splendor of
it
is
&
for
standeth so glad-
bloometh and standeth
re-
given unto her (the wilder-
(excellency) of Carmel & Saron (Sharon),

Even the most bitter myrrhs here contain the most
hidden sweetness. Even the heaviest burthen is light, & the hardest
The ornament
ness).
Isaiah, 35,
yoke
i.
mild (gentle).
is
The
the inmost joy; darkness

is
to
become
alive
is
poverty
deepest sadness hath hidden in
as light.
is
nothing and to become nothing,
unrest
is
is
to possess all things
the securest peace
&
is
to be
itself
&
thirst
to be
to inherit all things; to
have
weak,
is
the greatest strength
no trouble, no work
&
hunger
tires,
Now,
the wilderness,
then.
the greatest strength.
&
Esteemed
Sister, are
are ye pleased to
flee
more
for the
yet the feeblest weakness
From
out such desert
there shall arise (be built) the fairest city, namely, the
salem.
itself,
Here, dying
most refreshing drink;
one works, the stronger one becomes,

hath hidden in
12.
the greatest wealth
are as the most longed for food
nothing
Psalm 139,
you willing
thereinto
New
to
Then
Jeru-
come
it is
into
neces-
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&
sary to understand these things spiritually
Be
things gross be herein.
all
no wildernesses
but inhabited
their
the primitive
in
it
not corporally, because
names what they
&
will, there are
spiritual understanding,
(first)
of temples
cities, full
follow the lamb, whithersoever
yj
If she be willing to
altars.
goeth, then let her not follow the
women, because one
is only contaminated with these.

Wouldst
thou convert thyself, then convert thyself unto me, saith the Lord,
Jer. 4, I. If she have the spirit of the Lord as her teacher & master,
she must, indeed, be very desirous (studious)
with Him.
He
But
if
nor any one
self,
Him
is
if
But he
else to follow.
the surest
way;
on His pasture there
do,
if
she, according to
&
at
home, bodily
&
pray to her Father
&
that followeth after the
Him
To
follow
the best security;
is
And
found the best food.
His own admonition, Matth.
spiritually,
bridegroom.
bid neither him-
wolf catch him.
remain with
to
is
lest the
it,
she be not content
in a friend of the
will always direct her to the lamb, as John,
lamb, must not run before
&
Him
she hear
this she
6, 6.
may
remain
go into her chamber, lock the door,
in secret,
&
her Father,
Amen.
greetings, I am ever ready
who
seeth in secret,
will reward her openly.
With
&
cordial
I shall
to serve
be happy to hear that you are prospering.
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
things could I write, but,
to describe the inexpressible
unite our hearts by
Kelpius.
His
with pen
spirit,
&
ink!
that we, in
grow together in one faith & knowledge of the Son of God,

become a more perfect man, who is to be in the measure
perfect age of Christ (see Eph. 4, 14, 15, 16).
though absent
another
&
offer
in body,
up one
in
&
&
Thus we
ever
of the
shall,
the selfsame spirit be present one to
the same petition, prayer, intercession
thanksgiving through the hand of the Mediator J. C.
&
H.
78
Buntchy sends
These men came
&
Both he
his best regards.
her conversion
exceedingly because of
to us about a year ago,
Society.
&
H. Matthey
(growth
to
in)
rejoice
Christ.
have, in this short time,
Increased powerfully In the renunciation of the cares of this world
&
May
the allurements thereof.
& with
us,
Indeed,
stones
Is
4,
God
His suffering (passion).
17.
the one hand,
And
tion of the rest, in
&
Jerusalem,
ii, 52).
we
Those
whom
that are perfected await the perfec-
the corner-stone himself, the first-born,

13.
the long-suffering of the great Architect, our
of our Father In Christ becomes apparent,

ren, afore perfected
hold the
hold the weapon In the other,
the stones, each one for Itself are prepared
our Immanuel, doth wait, Heb. 10,
Whence
confirm
through the power (by
(John
being built In this sorrowful time, whilst
outside of Jerusalem.
&
us, less scattered,
they long, that, indeed, our Arch-Shepherd would bring
wrought with
Nehem.
amongst
live
together the scattered children of

virtue) of
Lord strengthen
the
They
these dear souls furthermore.
toward salvation
who
God,
to wait, that they
might not
When, however,
be perfected without us, Heb. 11, 40.
yea,
causeth our breth-
the last
stone shall have been perfected, then will the edifice suddenly appear
without stroke of hammer, without tumult

Its
divine splendor, beauty
soul, let us patiently
&
&
magnificence.
shouting, appear in
Therefore, beloved
(meekly) suffer chastening, to the end that
we
obtain His sanctlfication (whereof read Heb. 12.) without which
no one
shall see
God.
In
to a sufficiency, but hath
pleased to hear hereof.
my
It
But,
epistle I
have answered her request
been to her edification?

if
cause her some doubt, scruple, or the like, or be
be too obscure or unintelligible, yea,

I
am,
as a fellow-servant,
Should be
she find therein ought that
if
she
it
that aught
may
may
would know aught more,
ready to serve her according to the ability
which God granteth. For It also pleaseth God to work even by

means (& Indeed, oftentimes by very weak ones, of which I am
probably one of the most inconsiderable). Just as He hath done
by your soul through one dear friend Chawiley (?) though he is
joined unto a certain congregation, nevertheless he hath somewhat
of the universal charity (love), whereof for the present (I will
The Journal
speak no more)
thus he
awakening of her
first
Shepherd
spirit
&
Bishop
79
of Kelpiiis.
hath been instrumental, largely, to the
soul.
But now, may
(Overseer)
of
the faithful Arch-
our salvation give her His
Himself towards a union (a growth or growing to)
plete perfection.
&
com-
Amen.
I remain,
Esteemed
Your
Sister,
faithful brother, J.
Book Plate of Benjamin Furley, the Rotterdam Merchant.
K.
VII.
LETTER TO
DR. JOHANNES FABRICIUS

(ALTDORFINUS), GERMANY.
To
Dr. Fabricius, Prof. Theol. at Helmstadt:

July 23rd, 1705.
OUR
Magnificence:
am
I
it,
The joy your
letter afforded
unable, at present, to describe.
as in a mirror, the sincerity
and uprightness of
good old master. Dr. Fabricius.
me
I did behold in
What
my
dear Mr.
Ingelstaetter, evrettore dei Falkein, reported,
true,
is
so far as appertaineth to the principal point, namely,
have not become a Quaker.
that
into
my
mind,
albeit I love
other sects that approach and call themselves Christ's, the Bap-
all
tists
even not excluded, and,
God
and truth, that
work and
is
Such an idea hath never come

them from my inmost soul, even as I do
religion.
agreeable to
viîth
Peter, I have found out, in deed
regardeth not the person, but in
He
Him.
that feareth
could report of magnalities
mitted) which this great

Indians, whereof there
is
God
how
(if
remember
faith in the
God
W.
rightly)
of
they answered
server of
yourself,
in the
Yet one
Penn, when he was here
when he wanted
Heaven and Earth,
space per-
Memoirs
to
of
now
instance I will
last,
Anno
1701
preach to them of
at their Kintika (thus they
After having listened tp him with great pa-
call their festivity).
tience
of
right,
they are brought to grief
and then by blind-mouthed Christians.

report, as abashed Sir
(if
is
hath wrought even amongst the
some printed notice
the Phil. Soc. in London, and
all sorts
Him, and doeth what
"
You
bid us believe in the Creator and Pre-
Heaven and Earth, though you do not believe in Him

nor trust in Him. For you have now made your own the
80
PORTRAIT OF MAGISTER FABRICIUS.

TUTOR AND FRIEND OF KELPIUS.
FROM AN OLD COPPERPLATE AT HELMSTADT.
The Journal of
land
we
now
may
take heed, night and day,
held in
take
common amongst ourselves and our friends. You

how you may keep it, so that no one
from you.
it
8i
Kelpius.
Indeed, you are anxious even beyond your
among your children. This manor for

But we have faith in God the
Creator and Preserver of Heaven and Earth. He preserveth the
sun, He hath preserved our fathers so many moons (for they count
span of
life,
and divide
this child, that
manor
He
not by years).
He
it
for that child.
preserveth us, and
we
believe
and are sure that
will also preserve our children after us, and provide for them,
and because we believe
Whenever we
we
this,
shall be
bequeath them not a foot of land."
made worthy
to see the
many and
varied
who would be so simple, to say

these dwellings were all of one sort), it is my belief we shall then
see that the same Architect cared little about our common formula
and systematic architecture. And, I trow, many disciples of Moses
dwellings in our Father's house (for
and Christ, when
in
want or
dying, might be glad
they shall be
if
whom
they
hope that God,
who
received in any of the huts, described above, by him,
perhaps accused of heresy in this
maketh happy both man and

children, will, at last,
other.
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
trouble and crucify themselves concerning this Lexion

(as they call it), but especially the Reprobratites, be-
cause these (Restitution of
mas
men,
have been made to
from the second death.
Divines,
and hath mercy on
beast,
all
and death are further distinguished from change,
so that those that
livered
make
life.
very frequently.
all
things) cancel and crucify their dog-
Meseems, however,
origin in the misunderstanding of the
neither in
Greek nor
in
Hebrew denoteth
their little faith hath
word
Eternity,
which
a time but an end, but
rather the contrary as they have both singular and plural numbers,
and Paul even speaketh of the birth of
Eternities.
But
just as the
luminaries of the firmament are the dimensions of our time, so
seemeth that the Eternities have,

ever, those (sensual
also, their
Man's having not
wherefore allowance must be made,
if
it
dimensions, which, how-
the spirit) cannot well see,
they, perchance,
judge hereof
82
as the blind
do of
them the
How
judge otherwise.
who would not

And I trust in
also
But
colors.
plentitude should give
wroth
Lord from out
the
if
mind, they
spiritual
Society.
formerly would
his infinite
will,
no doubt,
wax toward
those
accept the sayings of Schertzer or Calov as Oracles.
God
the infinite mercy of
had great patience with me and
(and your Magnificence
me, indeed, publicly, whereof
to
admired your Magnificence's
I have since often been ashamed, but
why should I then look with evil eye upon

because God hath, perchance, showed me before-
humility and prudence),
my blind
neighbor,
hand the abundance
of
Not to speak
fragmentary work and
theirs?
pecially, because I
with those
who do
to
men
But, es-
of the creation as trees!
become one
in
God
through Christ both
not yet see as I do, and with those that see
whence
much
I.
I proffer this
common
love in the brotherly love, yet
the brotherly love, the Philadelphiae, remains with
foundation
eyes before
that I see but little fragments of the
the
hope
better and farther than
Although
His Mercy, by opening mine

of,
was wronged,
if I
me
on a firm
have been called a Quaker
on account of the former (common love), or even furthermore, a
Quakers
Papist, as has been done by the
unwilling to enter the married

connection, wherefore I
was
human
standpoint.
in this country, as I
it is
was
however advantageous the
either a Jesuit or
although, by the grace of God,

a
state,
easy for
me
an Indian
to be
Deitist,
judged from
Nevertheless I have mercy on such untimely
judges and condemners
who
are oblivious of the express prohibition
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
with the anathema of the Council of
Trent, though having no part in the errors mentioned.
honor of the Anglical Church,

the Doctrine of universal grace
must
much
To
the
confess, that they practice
better than the Lutherans.
Their 39 Theses, or Articles (I had almost said 40 less one) are

so mild and general, that they can be accepted by any one, who is
not too narrow-minded and of too
them have but
a private view,
little faith.
as,
If
anyone amongst
for instance, concerning the
The Journal of
Kelpius.
83
universal restitution, the Millennium, the Metemptosis,
etc.,
he
is,
on that account, not excommunicated forthwith, especially, if he

make them but serviceable to the practice of piety, not for the instituting of Sects, although they deem the Quaker Sect the last, and
Lord would now soon come to His Temple, forasmuch as

concerning the Millennium is quite correct both
amongst them and the Presbyterians, or Calvinists, both in Old
that the
the
opinion
and
New
England,
well as here, and even amongst the Quakers
as
themselves a few years ago.

these into one category.
in their opinions, as
their
so
own
is
many
heads, so
experience.
consequently
wrong
any of the great divisions may
many
be,
and
if
all
to a particular examination
on
the result
(Here the
to place all
majority of them are just as worldly
members should be subjected
some points of Religion
It
The
would
be, as
amongst others
opinions, as I have found out in

letter
mine
ends abruptly).
Vignette from Title Page of the " Paradisches Wunderspiel,"

Ephrata, 1 76 1.
VIII.
LETTER TO HENRICH JOH. DEICHMAN,

LONDON, ENGLAND.
Y
health
God
though considerably
precarious,
still
Is
Improved,
All of us are often-
be praised.
times exposed to severe temptations, yet our faithful
Helper
is
ever near and often granteth us a
splendid victory and bringeth
it
to pass, that
Much
rule in the midst of our enemies.
be said on this subject: consider only,
how Moses
we
could
ruled over Pha-
raoh In Egypt, before gaining a complete victory, enabling him to

sing his song of triumph at the
first
was great
In Babel, just as
Red
Egypt, ruled
In
of Babel over Bel and Betraies, before he
(Cyrus?)
how David, who
Sea: consider,
Moses
assisted in the building of the
In the
midst
under David and Cyu
temple: consider,
how Christ
Think of Paul, a captive

Thus also the new man ruleth
In Rome, David In the desert, etc.
In us, while yet he Is surrounded by the old Adam, the sins, and death.
At the sea of glass, he will sing the song of triumph of Moses and
of the Lamb. Therefore we rejoice and are of good cheer, because
ruled In the midst of death, before he rose.
we know,
that the complete victory will finally be of
Lamb, and,
therefore,
ours.
The new Adam
God and
within
according to the prototype of the old one, sleep and be

his
great will his joy and ours be,
and recognize and name us

left his father
and
his
as his
own.
why should we not wait

we shall be rewarded so
many have awakened
flesh
still,
until
and bone.
mother, and shall cleave to
waiting therefor;
mation, because
if
must,
O,
.he now shall awake
Yea, when he shall have
bride be fully built up and complete of his
how
us,
little for
because he
is
the consum-
richly therefor?
love too soon, hindering thereby their
84
the
us,
How
growth
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unto the fulness of their stature;
strong
85
how many
have, with their
striven too impetuously to attain something of the
spirit,
spiritual
Kelpius.
gifts of
their inheritance,
which they afterward squanEx-
dered, and became poorer than they were at the beginning.
amples, such as these,
house-mates,
and resting
who
we have
God,
in the will of
by His providence,
sweetened, in the
in
our days too, yea, even among our
serve to teach us to endure in blessed waiting
arrive.
mean
this
watching and waiting
would, indeed, wait forever,

it.
And
and diminutive
finally
in this wise,
in
their
if
their beloved
much
whom
that they
Father would thus
they constantly become
own
estimation, in so
deem themselves wholly unworthy
Friend and Bridegroom,
is
time, for the humble, childlike souls that
yearn for the holy will of their Father only, in so
have
meted out
until the destined end,
O, how
more humble
much, that they
of the revelation of their
they love so tenderly and for
whom
they yearn so eagerly; for the more they contemplate themselves,

the
more do they hate and
despise their
own
self;
but
if
above themselves, they become entirely oblivious of their
And
then their salvation
their
own
self,
&c.
is
they
own
nearest, because they are farthest
rise
self.
from
IX.
LETTER TO HESTER PALMER, AT FLUSHING,

LONG ISLAND.
A. 1706
My
d. 25,
Mayi.^
dearly beloved in our Iminanuel Jesus the Messiah:
The Son
EING
^M W
to
0m I Q^
B^pfl
our Saviour.
presented lately with a letter of yours, directed
is
not yet slipt
in
is
an evident sign to
Love and
in the
Assure yourself that

I finde as yet a
time
ness
,-
it is
from
me
my
hand, which De-
that the said
remem-
Truth.
with no
double wall between
less
us,
the current of this firey love-dream of

least
remembrance of mine was

out of your Minde, insomuch that you
in the P. S. that the
desired to see a few lines

sire
brance
God
our beloved Friend
found
"***
of
Fervency on
my
Side,
which indeed seems

which no more
but
to stop
at present,
we should embolden ourselves to break through before the

appointed by Him, who nourisheth the Woman in the Wilder(Rev. 12, 14). And since our Discourse broke just as we
was about
this matter.
NESS STATE,
Viz:THE
ril venture
THREEFOLD WILDER-
upon your Patience a few
lines
Con-
cerning this subject, adding the Third State in the Wilderness,

also
having Confidence
in
your good Acceptance since you have
manner bidden me to write and

to begin where we left it.
Of
the
first
Verbatim,
The
we
I finding
did discourse somewhat, viz:
Of
et literatem.
identity of this friend has not been discovered.
86
in
no better Subject than

the Barren
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we was beginning the

we was interrupted.
Wilderness, and as
87
second, viz:
Of
the
Fruitfull Wilderness,
The
hath a respect upon the Old Birth,
first
upon the New.
These two run
then the Second
is
and then arriveth

and Dieth
but
is
in the
The
set at Liberty.
to
its
The Second
educated, and arriveth to
its
is
led out of
Arm
of
manhood
God
in
Holy one
Egypt
The Second
after Egypt.
face alwais turned
Caleb (Joshua
seeth
Ye
God
seeth
Caananwarts and
and
salvation of
God and
filled
The
desire of attaining the same.
limiteth
Heart lusting
its
preserved,
is
its
Conservation; Caleb, full
undaunted, faithfull)
God, being
First seeth
well as in the
as
its life
falls
Egypt
Heart with Joshua and
its
signifieth Aid, Salvation,
of heart, courageous,
The
turning back with
in Israel, alwais
and
Wilderness,
in the
Wilderness, but murmurs, provokes and tempts

the
Egypt
also begotten in
and after the death of the First enters Caanan.

indeed the stretched out
second
begotten in Egypt,
first is
manhood, and being
Wilderness.
Ye
like as
parallel until the First dieth,
stands faithfull and
with the fervent and only
first
in
is
continual fear of
Death, and what he feareth cometh upon him

10, 24).
and puts
The
The
94, 13).
Second
his feet
to this riseth
is
(Num. 14, 38; Prov.

undaunted and liveth (Num. 14, 30, 31)
upon the necks of
Second deriveth
and
liveth in
its
his enemies (Jos. 10,
24; Psal.
origen from the First, and dying
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
He never departeth (Exod. 33,

New Man, being arrived now
to his
inward
Terror of
state
outwardly
coming forth Cant.

session
(Num.
27,
3,
to the
6; and
5) of
Tabernacle, from which
But when Moses Dyeth

Manhood, appears from
word
to the
Whose Land
Wise
the
his
enemies (see of this
his
15; Deut. 3, 21-end).
Parallism further, since a
we have
8,
11).
I
is
he taketh Pos-
will not
enough.
orally conferred of the First state, viz:
of
draw
the
And since
Ye Barren
88
Wilderness,
upon the Mystery of the Second.
let us insist a little
we
In which Fruitfull Wilderness

day, out of
which
many
so
Society.
enjoy the leading Cloud by
drops of the heavenly
Dew
(Psal. 33,
3) as a Baptism of Grace upon us do fall. This is a Day of Joy

and triumph, when the Holy Ghost moves and stirreth the waters
in
our Hearts so that
Eyes
baptism,
this living spring difEuseth
sweet and JoyfuU Gush of Tears
in a
who would
there followeth a night also
less
the Pillar of Fire

is
through the
self
not desire to be Baptized with thee every day.
But
Furnace, which
it
O Thou blessed water-
is
upon
this
Day, w^herein neverthe-
our Guide, refining us as Gold in the
the Baptism of Fire of
Ye
Son, and
learneth by this to be resigned and say
'
Not my
will,
indeed
is
New;
terrible to the old Birth, but bright and light to the
for she
Father
Thus our Tears are our Meat, yea, our

but Thine be done.'
Manna, not only by Day but also in the darkest Night (Psal. 42,
3; 80, 5). The most bitter Myrrh (which ccnditeth the old man
For
in his Grave) hath the most sweetest Sweet hid in herself.
the
Tree
and the Yoak of the Beloved doth but

Mara ( Exod.
of the Cross
sweeten the bitter water of Affliction and sufferings in
The
15; Matt. 11).
darkest sorrow contains in herself the most
inward Joy and Gladness (2 Cor.

Light (Psal. 139, 12). To dye is
grow lively. Poverty maketh rich.
6,
Darkness
10).
in this pleasant
Hunger
is
enjoy
is
to be Deified (2 Pet. i, 4).
(2 Cor.
all
10).
12,
To
To
like the
the most desirable
Meat, and Thirst the most refreshing Nectar (Math.

be nothing
is
Wilderness to
5,
become weak
is
To
6).
have nothing
is
to
the greatest
strength.
Disquietness
Pain doth
32, 24),
tire,
is
the surest Peace (2 Cor.
for the
and yet
more we work
we do
7,
10).
the stronger
No work
no
we grow (Gen.
experimentally find that the greatest weak-
ness hath the greatest strength hid in herself
(Cant.
2, 5).
Oh
everblessed Wilderness thou rejoyceth and blossometh as a Rose!

yea, thou blossometh
Singing.
of
The
abundantly and rejoyceth even with Joy and

is given unto thee, the Excellency
glory of Libanon
Carmel and Sharon!
In thee
we
see the
Glory of our Lord,
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and the Excellency of our God!
Kelpiiis.
89
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!
and lonesom walks?
trace thy Solitary
light to
tants of this
bless
and
kiss that gentle
ye Inhabi-
hand
at the first did so wittily allure you,
of that
when
she
intended to bring you into this Wilderness, for to speak to your
Heart,
order to search and
in
trie the
same!
Do
not forsake her,
hath given you from hence your Possessions, and the
untill she
hindermost Valley for the opening of your understanding (Hos.

2,
14,
15,
farthest,
LXX
according to the
comp. Exod.
This Valley
3, i,
Syrach
Achor signifying hindermost,
4,
17-28).
of Achor, or hindermost Cavity, leads
consideration of a Wilderness yet of a higher
than the Second, which
We may
ELECT OF GOD,
the
First.
exceeds by so
it
call
as
the
much
to the
degree
as the second does
WILDERNESS OF THE
being traced but by few, and none but
peculiarly chosen Vessels of
Honour and Glory.
this, Two out of Ye Old

The first is Moses, that great
between God and the Israel, according to
bring but four Instances for
I shall
and
it
me
(further)
Two
out of the
Prophet and mediator
New
Test.
the Flesh, who, as the Acts 2, 7, give us to understand, had a Revelation that
He
should deliver Israel out of Egypt, whilst
yet in the court of Pharao; which, as 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,
Enterprise through the fault of the
the end of the 40 years

rather to
would put
People,
where he remained 40
described, only that towards
led his Flock to
furthest)
Desert.
the Backside
And
(or
there the
L(ord) appeared unto him out of a burning Bush,

him in embassage to King Pharao. But so forMoses was at the first to go, when he had got only an
of the
in order to send
ward
as
Intimation or Manifestation or Revelation or Inspiration or
Mo-
what we may call it) of what He now was to do, without

any express Commission and Credentials (Viz. Miricales and
tion (or
go
So backward was he
Signs).
now
and extraordinary Credentials,

had done during the 40 years
Society.
so that
when he got express orders

we may easily find what he
in the
Wilderness having the two
to go,
extremes, viz., his Presumption and fervent Zeal at
and
he killed the Egyptian,
his great
when God would send him, which

by Ye
Sheep
his leading his
first in
which
Humility and meekness
at last
last
Symbolically typified by
is
Backside or deepest of the Wilderness.
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
Egyptians did Moses
Wilderness
40
days,
as
to the next Instance,
things paralell to the
Moses
He came
first
a very zealous
did.
He made
Moses
and had
They
the Egyptian.
his.
which
is
Fleyah and
Read
Witness.
did seek his
his escape
the his-
slain the Priests
and
life,
as the
fled into the
40 years was turned to him in

Hindermost Wilderness to the
his
at last into the
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
Zeal and Presumtions.
Shewing him withal,
that the great and strong winde and the Earthquake and the Fire
(wherein Elijah's
his
Ministry had consisted) did indeed go before
the L(ord), but that the

still
Lord did not dwell
therein, but in the
ae thereall creating voice and that there were yet
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
were hid and imknown
had ministered.
New
This Eleijah leads
to
Ye
first
Wilderness
in the
Testament, the Claus of the old John, the Precursor of the
Messiah,
who
the day of his
after his education
Shewing unto
was
also in the Wilderness,
Israel in the Spirit
till
and Power of
The Journal of
Kelphis.
91
Eleijah, baptizing with water to Repentance, as the first Eleijah
What
had baptized with Fier for Destruction.

Wilderness
may
said
we
safely conclude that he was gratified there for his so great a
Ministry.
of
is
he did in the
what hath been
not described, but by that
what he
That God appeared
same
tize the
also
unto him there appeareth out
saith himself (Job. i, 33).
me.
said unto
I will
He
me
that sent
to
Bap-
not draw the Parallelism any
further, lest I should prove tedious at least.
That
like as the ac-
who succeeded Eleijah, raised the dead man (2 Reg.

He who succeeded John, by his death became the Head,
corded of him
13, 21), so
the Spring, the Principle and cause of Life and Resurrection unto
Him, both for Soul and Body. This is the last

and greatest Witness I am to produce JESUS the Messiah of God,
our God and Saviour, the centre of all, who also in likeness of the
all that believed in
first
Lawgiver Moses was 40 days (the 40 years of Moses being

in the Wilderness and tempted there with all
thus abridged)
only Prerogative above
Heb.
all,
4,
deed maketh mention of his firey
where
He
of Temptations (though without sin, wherein
manner
saith
what they was
15; 2, 28).
trials
(i
The
Pet. 4, 12),
But no-
They cannot be described it is

them best. The three temptations
or are.
only experience which can teach
hath the
Scripture in-
End of the 40 days (Matt. 4) centre in this:

was the Son of God or Not! which indeed hath more to say
than is commonly supposed. The very Ground of the Christian
Religion circling therein and is founded thereupon, as appears from
that happened at the
//
He
Matt.
16, 16; Joh. II,
27;
Job. 4, 15;
5.
5; and
the greatest
is
Jews (Joh. 19, 7) and to the Turks, the

Latter believing that Jesus the Son of Mary (as they style him)
is the word of God incarnate, and that he is anointed to the Holy
Ghost above all the Prophets and above Mahomed, and that he is
to be the Judge of the Quick and Dead and of Mahomed himself;
but that He is the Son of God they cannot believe, for, say they,
Stumbling block
God
is
a Spirit
wonder,
this
to the
and cannot beget a man for
being a Mystery surpassing
understanding; nor
is
it
to
all
his Son, &c.
humane and
be found out by the same,
And
no
Angeelicall
it
depending
92
from the Revelation of the Father,
solely
like as that of the
M.
depends from the Reception of the Son and
Why
the?
died
The
Jesus being
God
of very
Society.
K.,
God, became
is
Father
yet to answer
Man
to be
and
Prophets and Patriarchs have been tempted indeed wîth
great Temptations, but none like
this,
none of the Nature of
this,
they being not capable of the same, as being the Sons of
God
through Faith in Him,
Man
(Exod.
3,
14,
where
it
vi^ho
being God, was to be
should have been interpreted:
made
I Shall be,
I shall be, viz:

Man) as we through Faith in Him who was
God and is made Man. But Jesus having past this firy ordeal.
He received the Almightiness from his Father, whereof he made no
what
bragging Ostentation, as Robbers make of their Pray, but humbled

himself unto the death even the death of the Cross, styling himself
Grave only the son of Man (or mankind, the

Greek word denoting both the Sexes) though He was the son of
God Wherefore God also by the Resurrection from the Dead
powerfully declared him to be his Son (Rom. i, 4; Psal. 2. Act.)
exalting him above all, Lord over all worlds, visible and invisible,
this and that which is to come (Eph. i, 2; Phil. 2, 6-1 1).
at this side of the
To
these four I will
add two more out of the Scripture, pass-
ing by the rest (Heb. 11, 38).
God's own Heart,
who was
cised in continual Sufferings
ness) before
He was
first is
Apostle of the Gentiles
in the
David, that
man
after
Wilderness and exer-
and Sorrows (as
installed in the
chosen and annointed so
of Arabia
This
10 years
Psalms bear wit-
his
Kingdom,
to
which
He was
many years before. The second is that great

Paulj who abided seven years in the Deserts
17, and as the antient Church Records bear

went out for the Conversion of the Gentiles, I
could produce a whole Cloud of such chosen Vessels out of the
(Gal.
I,
witness), before he
antient Records of the
Wild's some for
first
Christians,
who
beeing prepared in the
some for 20, some for 40 years, after their

coming forth converted whole Cities, wrought signs and Miracles,
was
to
through
10,
their Disciples as living Oracles,
whom
as
the
mouth
of
God
he fed and guided them, but having exceeded the
limits of a letter allready, I
must stop the Vein which
so liberally
The Journal
would
diffuse
that
full,
When we
hope what hath been said manifested to the
hath prepared alwais his most eminent Instruments
consider
Three
now with
first
our minds
a serious introversion of
states of the Wild's,
entring into the
and
self; I
93
Wilderness.
in the
those
it
God
of Kelpius.
we
shall find
That
there
is
no
Wild's without a going out of Spiritual Egj'pt;
so consequently no entring into the second without passing the
first;
And
second
no entring into the Third without passing the
so on,
state.
We
shall find
in
the next place, that like as there
is
a long
Struggling and Groaning under the Egyptian Burdens before the

delivery from the same ensueth. So there
is
a long contest
between
the first and second Birth in their Wilderness-Station before the
Second
is
set at perfect
Caanan But how long

:
may run
if
together,
Liberty and
is
state,
and one
and possess
all, I'll
leave to higher graduated Souls
my mind: me thinks the

Manhood may both well consist with the second
may arrive to the manhood in Christ without ever
to enquire;
Childhood and
to enter
and where the Borders of each meet together or
there be any Borders at
than mine
made ready
the Parallelism of the second and third state
by
it
to speak
some chosen Vessels

which requires also peculiar and extraordinary Qualifications and Endowments, which they are to acquire
and make trial of in this Third Station before they appear and
show themselves to the Israel of God. So that every one that is to
enter the Third must of necessity be acquainted with the second and
entering the
Third
Station, this being only for
for a peculiar administration
first.
But not every one
that hath entered the Second and after
also enter the Third Station.

Third State we shall find what a
wighty thing it is to appear and to show oneself to the Israel of
God, as immediately called chosen and sent by the Lord. Such a
he
is
By
even with the
first
must
the consideration of the
4, 9) a Spectacle to the World

And what good reason Moses had to
was sent, whom God having heard the crey
being made, as Paul saith (i Cor.
and to Angels and to Men.

resist so
hard when he
and Prayers of
his People, did force as
it
were and thrust or
cast
94
forth (see Matt, ii, 38)
where
on the other
beforehand.
a great presumption
it is,
Hand, to go forth without being thus duly prepared

For though such may have inspirations, Revelations,
Motions and the

at the very
should have been thurst or
It
And what
forth instead of sent forth).
Society.
like
may have
Extraordinary Favours yea,

;
Manhood
in Christ (which truly
is
arrived
a high attainment),
yet they will effect and build nothing, but only (if they do any thing
destroy, as
at all)
we
Moses and EHas,

no small Danger
in the instances of
see
before they had been in that Wild's.
Yea, there
is
of loosing themselves and to bruise and grind that good seed, which
was not designed
for
Meat but
for increase, not for to be sent forth
but to be kept in an honest and

are indeed with
Translation
saith,
Good Heart. (Luc.
Child, they are in pain, but

Esa. 26,
28, and
as
wittnesseth to be so) they bring forth as
make no
the
it
(as the
common
).
Such
common
experience
were but Winde, they
deliverance in the earth, neither do the Inhabitants of the
Whereas if they was duly prepared and had stood the

firey ordeal it would fare with them, not as with the common, but
as the Translation the first Christians made use of hath it Through
thy Tears Lord we have conceived and have been in Pain of Birth,
World
fall
and have brought forth the
Spirit of Salvation,
have wrought on Earth; we
Earth shall
I
which Salvation we
on
shall not fall, but all that dwell
fall.
had many Considerations more
to add, as also
what
the Wilder-
ness it self is in each of these States, having spoken only of some

of the Inhabitants thereof and of some of their Qualities and
Circumstances, and this rather under a veil and, as it were, but
glancing at the
Marrow and
Substance.
Nor have
counted the
number of the Wilderness-Time, but touched only the root thereof,
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
The Journal of
upon your Patience
between
us.
Oh
this first time,
that
we may
Kelphis.
not considering also the wall
behold our Beloved alwais, standing
behind our Wall, looking forth att the
thorow the Lattesse, saying Rise up
come away (Cant.

I
To
29, 10).
95
Window, shewing
my
Love,
my
fair
himself
one and
whose Love-embraces leaving you,
remain,
Your
sincere,
though unworthy Friend,
J.K.
RocKSBORROW, 1706,
d. 25,
Maji.
For Hesther Pallmer,

In
Long-Island
in
Flushing.
X.
KELPIUS'S
METHOD OF
"
OW
concerned Magister Kelpius
was for the

the
PRAYER."
German
spiritual welfare of
settlers in
Penn's Colony
on the Delaware, where every
effort
was made by the Quakers to incorporate

the Germans in their fold, is shown by
the compilation by Kelpius of a little
prayer book of 32 pages, six inches by
3^/2 inches.
The
title
was @ine ûrtjeimb
pm
ftillen
No
of this brochure
Segreiflige anieitung
e6et."
copy of the original edition, so
known, has come down to us. It is said to have been

printed by Reynler Jansen, about the year 1700, and was
the first German devotional book to be printed in the westfar as
96
Society.
W$\ttt\
^mnacfj Da^ inntxt @ebdl
ûnct
ticjer
ifl/
fo
rt)icb*
Dag man Dalfdbe D
\^
Die (aufere uninterejfirte Ciebe in unferii derêti
anjuric&ten;
iint>
in Dcv '^l)at feijn
Da alle C^v3|len(?dcê fblcbe

n)oHen) ju Diefem @tanD De^
unD ôllfcmmenbdt fcruffen pnD^

unD Dcnenfdbcn fraft Diefe^ ûf^ Die ni5tS)ige
(autern liebc
(Bna&e
Dar_(jereiclêt n)ir&;
evreicben
(jjleyfej)
^^rfonen; ;a
fi'mpelfle
urn fotcSen
fdnD
ju
fo fc&icf t fic& Diefe^ iiihere (Debet fuiJ
mt>
cêrlei? ?iit
fo .âr auci) fur Die dller^
alferDumlle eufe^ a(^
De^ cbet^ fdî^ pnD;
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brtngf
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IN
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allcvbafDiên jw
AND ARMBUSTER'S EDITION OF 1756.

THE COLLECTION OF JULIUS F. SACHSE.
FIRST PAGE OF FRANKLIN
THE ONLY COPY
Dajftlbe
''Method of Prayer."
Kelpius's
ern world, nor
German
known whether
is it
this
97
was printed with
or Latin type.^
was printed by Frankhn and

Armbruster in 1756, of which the only known copy is in
the collection of the writer. There evidently was no general title page; the printers and date are known from the
second
German
edition
advertisements in the local paper.

facsimile of the first page with
SSegriff ober Ieic^te

is
shown upon
3)littet 511
half
its
title
^ûrjer
23eten ober mit ott ju reben/'
the opposite page, following
Dr. Chris-
is
topher Witt's translation of the text
"For
as
much
Weighty
it
may
a Point, that one
the only
means
to attain to
fection in this Life,
and
Prayer
as internal
disinterested
and
Love
to
in
is
so
call
Per-
kindle the Pure
our Heart's; and
as all Christians (luho zvill indeed be such)
Love and
are Called to this State of pure

fection,
and
power
will, by the
have the necessary Grace offered
So
to attain such a State.
prayer suits
all persons,
per-
of this call
to
them
this inzvard
even the most
Simple and ignorant, who are also capable

performing
Order or Manner
this
This brings us soonest
and Conformity
to the
to the
of
of prayer.
Union with
Will of God!
"
Dr. Christopher Witt- who translated this pamphlet

into English was an English physician and mystic, who
joined the mystical community on the Wissahickon in the
1
C/.
"
German
1895, p. 102.
-
Ibid.
Pietists
in
Provincial
Pennsylvania," Phila., Kelpius,
98
Society.
year 1704, and died in 1765 at the advanced age of ninety

years, being the last survivor of the Kelpius community on
the Wissahickon.
Dr. Witt's English translation was
Henry
Miller, the
German
printed by
first
printer of Philadelphia, in the
year 1761, whose establishment was on Second Street next

Dr. Witt gave a copy of
to the corner of Race Street.
to Christian Lehman of Germantown, who
had been one of his students, who made the following
notes upon the back of the title and last page of his copy,
this edition
viz.
:^
Reverse of Title:
Lehman, Favore, Christophori,
Christian
November
Dom.
1 67 5
in
Wiltshire in England.
De
^_
Witt, Natus, lOth
Given xbr: Sth
1763, Denatus at Germantown, January joth,
Buried February
ist
1765,
Etatis
A*^
Dom
A'^
1765
Sue Sg years 2 months 20 days
Natus loth Novemb'' A. D. 1675.
On
The
last
page:
German Tongue
German and was Translated into English by
Witt who died January joth 1765, aged 89 yrs 2 mo.
foregoing was originally composed in the
by John Kelpius a
Christopher
20
days.
in the Warner burying ground on

Warner house, at the corner of the
Main and High Street, locally known as "Spook hill."^
A part of this ground is now covered by the chancel of St.
Dr. Witt was buried
the
hill
top back of the
Michael's P. E. Church, under the floor of which rest his

remains.
Two
years later, 1763, a second edition of the English
version of Kelpius's pamphlet

3
For
Cf. pp. 419-430-
full
account of Dr. Witt,
was published
cf. ibid.,
pp. 402-418.
at
German-
Kelphis's
"Method
of Prayer."
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100
town by Christopher Sower,

ond edition with addition."
as the title states, "
No
matter has thus far been found.

in the
Historical Society
is
Society.
The
Sec-
copy with any additional

printed by Sower
The copy
merely a reprint of the Miller
edition of 1761.
Facsimiles of
title
pages of both English editions are
shown upon the opposite page.
The
originals are in the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Magister Johannes Kelpius was small of stature, slight

frame, and suffered from an affection or paralysis of the
left eyelid; he was of a frail constitution, which soon broke
down under frugal fare and abstemious habits and the extremes of our variable climate.
in
Kelpius died in the year 1708, at the early age of thirtyfive.
He
munity
known.
was buried with
at sunset
by
the rites of the Mystical com-
his brethren.
His
resting place
is
not
Julius F. Sachse.
September
20,
1916.
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UNIVERSmy

TWENTY-FIFTH PRESIDENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY.

PROCEEDINGS AND ADDRESSES

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY

DANIEL W. NEAD, M.D.

The Pennsylvania-German Society

Officers of the Society

Biographical Sketches of Deceased

ment AND Development.

The Braddock Expedition.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

Hon. William U. Hensel,

Hon. Harman Yerkes.

Muhlenberg, M.D., LL.D.

Prof. George T. Ettinger, Ph.D.,

Burnett Buckenham, M.D.,

Daniel W. Nead, M.D.

Terms Expire 19 17.

Schmauk, D.D., LL.D.

C. Schaeffer, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.

Rev. L. Kryder Evans, D.D.

REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS

TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING

the First Reformed Church, Lancaster,

Twenty-fourth Annual Meet-

the Pennsylvania-German Society

to order by the President, Dr. Julius F. Sachse, in the

Reformed Church, Lancaster,

Pa., at half past ten

on Friday morning, November 13, 19 14, In the

After a hearty welcome had been extended to the Society

made and seconded

the reading of the minutes of the

annual meeting was dispensed with.

President thereupon called for the annual report of

which here follows

Report of the Secretary,

to a close, the Society has

usual measure of prosperity and has continued

to further the noble

the loving sons of loyal fathers.

its activities, in its

endeavors, our Society has remained true

which it was founded, and true to the spirit

the revised constitution proposed by B. F. Fack-

enthal, Jr., ScD., at the last annual meeting

revision, if necessary, be-

presentation for final action at this meeting.

Executive Committee devoted a great deal of time and

the proposer of the

new document. Dr. Facken-

was absent on an extended tour through Europe and

Executive Committee, to ask the Society at this meeting to

Report of the Secretary.

Constitution for one year, until the annual meeting in

Committee unanimously recom-

that the Society accordingly postpones final action

until next year.

During the year another volume has been added to the

value of content, in rich-

and in beauty of mechanical make-up,

In view of the fact that a

not be out of place for the Secretary to re-

members of the following action taken by the