Historical and Biographical Sketches (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Samuel W. Pennypacker

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330322436 ISBN 13 : 9781330322437

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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The philologist, who seeks to know something of the language of the primeval man of Europe, finds amid the mountains of the Pyrenees, theB asques, who have preserved down to the present time the tongue of these remote forefathers. The ethnologist studies the habits of prehistoric races not by the uncertain light of early legends, but by going to the Islands of theS outh Pacific, where savage life still exists, as it was before the dawn of civilization. The historian, wlio pursuing the same methods of investigation, would stand face to face with the Reibrmation, need onlv visit the .M ennonites of Lancaster County, in Pennsylvania, where he can see still rigorously preserved, the thought, the faith, the habits, the ways of living, and even the dress of that important epoch. The hymn book in ordinary use by the Amish was written in the 16t.h Century, and from it they still zealously sing about Felix Mantzr, who was drowned at Zurili, in 1526, and Michael Sattler, who had his tongue torn out and was then burned to death at Rottenburg in 1527. Whether we regard their personal history,, or the results of their teachings, theM ennonites were the most interesting people who came to A merica. There is scarcely a family among them which cannot be traced to some ancestor burned to death because of his faith. Their whole literature smacks of the fire. Beside a record like theirs, the sufferings of Pilgrim and Quaker seem trivial. A hundred years before the time of Roger Williams, George Fox and William Peun, theD utch reformer Menno Simons contended for the complete severance of Church andS tate, and the struggles for religious and political liberty, which convulsed England and led to theE nglish colonization of America in theS eventeenth Century, were logical results of doctrines advanced by theD utch and German Anabaptists in the one which preceded.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330322436
• ISBN 13: 9781330322437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 418
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