Download or read book History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia written by Abraham Ritter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia: From Its Foundation in 1742 to the Present Time Were it for the mere pleasure of writing a book, or the evaporative fame of authorship, the contents of this volume would have slept in the unexplored bosom of its fathers yet there is a motive, a design, and a pleasure in the research, inasmuch as the lights and. Shades of antiquity may be elicited to refresh the memory of the centenarian, or enlighten the wonderings of the satchelled youth, or the full fledged collegian. There, is, however, in this, as there is doubtless in all communities, a portion of our race for whom obli vion would seem to have been permitted, who pass every yesterday of their existence, and that of their ancestors, as though Time had but just marked their being, and the everlasting now was the necessary absorbent of all that life holds dear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.