One result of the close examination required in republishing this essay is the certain realization that we are all travelers, hence subject to the same conditions and exaggerated stories that Swift urges in his satire. In preparing the digital copy some new information was entered. Conrad Reiff's conversion is well known among revivalists, for those were revival times. George Whitefield was much in evidence with Anabaptist thought charged with transformative language and examples so we can include Matthias Baumann with the hermit Pietists of the Wissahickon with Conrad Beissel, and even with Count Zinzendorf's heterologies revival, the very thing Bird in his Fraktur complains against, with Yoder and.Frederick Weiser, and Richard Wentz and the Pennsylvania German Church Society of business men and professors so offended by the Blood! Of the passions and angers of Boehme and Weiss, the humor and intelligence of Peter Miller, all pastors of the Reiff church, revolutions notwithstanding, Muhlenberg's journals and letters inspire respect for his courage and sound mind with compassion and judgment.
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