SECTION II — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON EPHRATA
by Linda S. Schrigner, et al
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. . . on the other hand, the sisters and brothers living at the Cloister slept on hard, narrow, wooden benches with their heads on blocks of wood—as you see here in a sleeping room of the sisterhouse. Perhaps with this we can also understand that in having to sleep this way anyone might have sought out the warm comfort of a spouse!—when Beissel decided to build the Bethania or brotherhouse to separate husbands and wives who took the vow of celibacy. |
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