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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