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Title: History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Church of the Brethren. Districts. Eastern Pennsylvania. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Lancaster, Pa., The New era printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Ministers of the denomination who have traveled all overthe country, occasionally visit the building, and these say thatwhile there were churches of this kind built sometime beforethe date just mentioned, all these have disappeared or were re-modeled to such an extent as to make it impossible to see whatthe original building looked like. But the one at Pricetown re-mains unchanged and will probably stand as it does today formany years to come, since good care is taken of it. It is a plain 30X25 one story building with a 16X16 ad-dition, both parts being constructed of rough stone. The wallsare nearly two feet thick and have outworn several shingleroofs. In the early part of the last century, love feasts wereheld in this building regularly. The cooking was done in the addition for which purpose itwas erected, and the sisters then brought the food into the mainbuilding, where the feast was held. In those days, a culinary 2 The Germantown house was erected in 1770, but has been altered.
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