Dunkard Love Feast.-- The Dunkard Love Feast at the Mohler meeting-house, near Ephrata, on the 1st and 2nd insts. was not inferior in point of numbers or in interest to the fall meetings of other years. The attendance was very large, of which many were young people. The church edifice has a seating capacity of 1,400, and both days it was crowded, many finding it impossible to gain admission.
About twenty clergymen were present, including Revs. Myers, of Kansas, Christian Bucher, of Lebanon county, George Bucher, of Lebanon county, --- Myers and Jonas Harly of Montgomery, Bishop Samuel Harly, of Ephrata, --- Moore and J. Moore, of New Jersey, Nicholas Martin and --- Bricker, of Washington county, Md., --- Yetter, of Dauphin, Jonas Price, Henry Light, J. B. Gibble, Jacob Hackman, John Myers, Reuben Reidenbach, Israel Wenger, Henry Price, --- Shirk, of Lancaster county.
The speaking was excellent, Revs. Myers of Kansas and Myers, of Lebanon elicting <sic> special encomiums.
About two hundred and fifty participated in the ceremony of feet washing. Then followed the Lord's Supper, the holy kiss of friendship and communion. The services were pervaded by a deep solemnity throughout. The best order prevailed, and the participants evinced an appreciation of the deeper significance of the ordinances apart from the outward ceremony.
The congregation is rapidly increasing in number, and is probably the strongest in the county.
~ The Lititz Record, 04-Nov-1881, Page 3, Column 4
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