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Description : MILLER, JOHN PETER. 1709-1796. 2 Autograph Letters Signed (Peter Miller), in English: 1. 2 pp recto and verso, folio, with autograph half-page postscript on separate sheet, Ephrata, September 5, 1790. 2. 4 pp recto and verso, quarto, Ephrata, January 16, 1792. Lightly toned with a few spots, 2 small holes to the postscript with slight loss, very good. TWO EXCEPTIONAL LETTERS FROM THE HEAD OF THE EPHRATA COMMUNITY WITH REFLECTIONS ON EPHRATA . Ephrata Cloister in Pennsylvania was one of the earliest religious communities founded in America. It was founded by the Pietist, Conrad Beissel who had been banished from Germany in 1715. Ephrata was visited by a British officer in 1790 and his biased account (which refers to coffee-drinking and womanizing by the younger members) was published in Carey's American Museum . Miller writes here to set the record straight: The account given by a british officer of Ephrata in the Museo, is scurrilous and sordid, and considering the kind reception he met with here, as he confesseth himself, unjust and ungratefull in the highest degree ... Had the officer, when he was here, unmasked himself, the marks of a Deist might have appeared on him, if not of an Atheist, for from Deism to Atheism is an easy descent. As they are noxious to the Christian cause, the Apostles have strictly charged their followers, to have nothing to do with them: for they are accustomed, to swim at the top, like cord-wood. Miller says there is no truth in the account at all and accuses the officer of being in liquor when he wrote it. The second letter is a reflection on 57 years as a Pietist. In part: I cannot say, that I have thoroughly lost this my primitive zeal, but in the process of time I met with many great obstructions. For when our hermetical Life was changed into a monastic one I had the mortification to See, that the convents and all their corners were filled with Magistrates, in order to prohibit falsh (sic) Altars to be erected ... and now between the poor devotees of Ephrata and the woll-headed African Slaves no other difference, than that they were white and free Slaves... . Both letters were published in full in The Register of Pennsylvania of 1835. They were part of a small group of letters sent to an unidentified gentleman of Philadelphia.
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