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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
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ufelt that you were with a man who was good through andthrough. Robeson Hyde labored chiefly in the Bethel congregation.See the account of that church. He continued with theold church until his end, but his able and useful son Lam-bert cast in his lot with the Progressives. This family, ifany, makes us feel that all the Brethren of Jersey should beone again. There was in Brother Hyde something primi-tive, a freedom from conventionality, that made his pres-ence very enjoyable. There is within the Jersey homes, often unpainted on theoutside, so much of Christian hospitality, so much of loveand good-will, that one is made to wonder how the spirit ofschism could ever find entrance. Satan is the author of itall. But as the Jersey Brethren resist him, he will flee fromthem. And surely the great home missionary spirit of JohnNaas, the father of the church in Jersey, must revive. AsBro. Frank Holsopple said, the Jersey Church is his mon-ument, and this monument must not be allowed to tarnish.
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PART IV.THE COVENTRY GROUP. CHAPTER I.THE COVENTRY CHURCH. Coventry, the second oldest Brethren Church in America,was organized, November 7, 1724. The charter memberswere nine: Martin Urner and wife Catharine, Henry Landisand wife, Daniel Eicher, Peter Heffly, Owen Longacre, andAndrew Sell. Martin Urner was chosen the preacher; andhis home seems to have been the chief place of meeting.Some time after Alexander Mack arrived in 1729, he or-dained Martin Urner to the office of Bishop. An accountof the facts leading up to the organization of this oldchurch, only ten months younger than the old MotherChurch at Germantown, will be found set forth in the ac-count of the Missionary Tour of 1724. A love feast was held at Martin Urners on Whitsuntide,in 1726. Members from both Germantown and Conestogawere present. But Peter Becker was not among the num-ber. Conrad Beissel officiated. Extraordinary powersof eternity were manifested; and the followers of Beisselcalled it the congregations Penteco

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