Author: Edwin Macminn

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781230305530

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... fields for labor. Bishop Spangenberg and Weigner were selected for Skippack; John Bechtel and John A. Gruber, for Germantown, and Henry Antes, Andrew Frey and George Stiefel for Frederick. These conferences continued until 1740. It was during this period of earnest religious work that death entered into Antes' household, and took on June 6th, 1739, their nine-month's-old baby Jacob. The first grave they made in the wilderness was that of their youngest. During this same period, in 1738, when the influence of Spangenberg was arousing all the ardor of these religious people, Gruber issued an address in which he suggested a union of the various sects among the Germans of Pennsylvania. One writer described that time as being "a complete Babel of sects." As there were between thirty and forty thousand Germans in the colony, and immigration was continuing multitudinously, the desire for union was in the truest sense devout and patriotic. This idea took firm possession of Antes' mind, and became the aim of his life. Rev. John Bechtel afterward wrote of this period "The Sainted Brother Antes, Stiefel, Adam Gruber, myself and others from Germantown, enjoyed many blessed hours together." And who can doubt but that much of their enjoyment came from the exquisite delight in this aim, an aim which to-day urges the greatest of the world's Evangelists on in their work, and has caused the production of a blessed literature from the pens oi such men as Dwight Moody, Bishop Coxe, Washington Gladden, A. J. Gordon and others. But oi all those who in that early day aimed at this noble unity, Henry Antes was the most ardent, consistent and persistent, and when failure came down upon it with its mountain bulk and weight of prejudice, Antes felt that there was...

Download or read book A German Hero of the Colonial Times of Pennsylvania; Or, the Life and Times of Henry Antes written by Edwin Macminn and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... fields for labor. Bishop Spangenberg and Weigner were selected for Skippack; John Bechtel and John A. Gruber, for Germantown, and Henry Antes, Andrew Frey and George Stiefel for Frederick. These conferences continued until 1740. It was during this period of earnest religious work that death entered into Antes' household, and took on June 6th, 1739, their nine-month's-old baby Jacob. The first grave they made in the wilderness was that of their youngest. During this same period, in 1738, when the influence of Spangenberg was arousing all the ardor of these religious people, Gruber issued an address in which he suggested a union of the various sects among the Germans of Pennsylvania. One writer described that time as being "a complete Babel of sects." As there were between thirty and forty thousand Germans in the colony, and immigration was continuing multitudinously, the desire for union was in the truest sense devout and patriotic. This idea took firm possession of Antes' mind, and became the aim of his life. Rev. John Bechtel afterward wrote of this period "The Sainted Brother Antes, Stiefel, Adam Gruber, myself and others from Germantown, enjoyed many blessed hours together." And who can doubt but that much of their enjoyment came from the exquisite delight in this aim, an aim which to-day urges the greatest of the world's Evangelists on in their work, and has caused the production of a blessed literature from the pens oi such men as Dwight Moody, Bishop Coxe, Washington Gladden, A. J. Gordon and others. But oi all those who in that early day aimed at this noble unity, Henry Antes was the most ardent, consistent and persistent, and when failure came down upon it with its mountain bulk and weight of prejudice, Antes felt that there was...