Excerpt from The Pennsylvania-German Society, Vol. 8: Proceedings and Addresses at Lancaster, Oct. 22, 1897 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us what work Thou didst in their days, in the times of old; amid the privations, the struggles, the hardships, the turmoils and conflicts Of those days which tried men's souls. We thank Thee for their high value of the inesti mable privileges of liberty of conscience and an open Bible that for these priceless treasures they were willing to suffer the loss of their property, their homes, their fatherland, all material possessions they had in the world, and become destitute exiles in a foreign land for the maintenance of principle, Of freedom and of truth. Our hearts do, indeed, burn within us as we recount the thrilling history Of their tremendous sacrifices for con science sake, and of the noble part they bore in the ever memorable struggle of the American Revolution, as loyal sons of this new land of their adoption, baptizing its soil with their life-blood in the holy cause of liberty. We thank Thee that centuries before, when our remote forefathers were fierce barbarians, worshipping their heathen gods in the wild forests of the north, Thou didst send them Christian missionaries to tell them the good tid ings of Christ Jesus and His blessed Gospel of peace. 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.