Note 149 — SCHWENKFELDERS.
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Mr. Weiser speaks as if the singing was in the dialect. The following is a copy of some lines which were sung at their meeting-house when I attended, from which the student of German may observe the quality of the language, and the theologian may notice, as it seems to me, two or three of their peculiar doctrines:
“Jehovah, Vater, Sohn, und Geist! O Segens Bronn, der ewig fleuszt! Durchfleusz Herz, Sinn, und Wandel wohl; Mach uns dein’s Lob’s und Segens voll!”
Jehovah, Father, Son, and Spirit! Oh, spring of blessing, forever flowing! Flow through heart, thought, and life; make us full of thy praise and blessing!