214 HISTORY OF 



water by trine immersion ; and after they came up out 

 of the v/ater, and had changed their clothes, they were 

 filled with joy, and by the grace of God, these expres- 

 si')ns were revived in their minds with peculiar energy, 

 "be ye fruitful and multiply.'' 



They met Avith no small share of opposition and per- 

 secution, notwithstanding these, they soon increased, 

 wherever the hand of persecution had driven them; 

 some fled to Holland, some to Creyfels, in tlue Dutchy of 

 Cleves; and the mother church voluntarily removed to 

 Serustervin, in Friesland. In a very short time, there were 

 efficient laborers in this branch of God's moral vine^^ard; 

 especially at Creyfels. Among the brethren there were 

 John H. Kalklosor, from Frankenthal, Christian Leib, 

 and Abraham Dubois, from Ebstein, John Naas, and 

 others, from the north, Peter Becker, from Dilsheim, 

 John H. Traut, and his brethren, and Stephen Koch, 

 George B. Gantz, from Umstadt, and Michael Ecker- 

 ling, from Strasburg. Among these, as their leader, was 

 Alexander Mack, who devoted his property to the com- 

 mon use of the society, and emigrated to Pennsylvania, 

 in 1729,* where persecuted virtue found an asylum 

 under the benign Government of Penn. They first 

 settled at Germantown, some at Skippack, Oley, others 

 at Conestoga, and elsewhere. A congregation of theiBi 

 was organized, and they chose Peter Becker, as oificiai 

 baptizer. 



The society increased rapidly, and soon a chiJjch was 

 formed in Lancaster county, at Muelhachy (Mill creek J ^ 

 One of the prominent members of this last mentioned 



*Im lahr, 1729, ist Alexander Mack, der Urstaen4er der 

 Taeufer, samt den uebrigen gedachter Gemeinde, von Fries* 

 land abgesetzt und in Pennsylvanien angekomcien.-sr^eiej^ 



Miller. 



