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Congregation of the United Brethren, and for a century was under its absolute government. In the winter of 1740 the first trees were cut down that formed the log hut which was the first house on this part of the Lehigh. Count Zinzendorf, their leader, arrived from Moravia, with his young daughter Benigna, before the second house was built, and celebrated with the settlers the Christmas Eve of 1741. They had called the place Beth-Lechem,
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Not Jerusalem--lowly Bethlehem 'Twas that gave us Christ to save us.
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the church elders regulating the labor of all the people, and afterwards, until 1844, the church council of the
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Congregation ruled everything, this exclusive system being then abandoned. Proceeding up a winding highway from the river, the old
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Moravian Sun Inn is passed, the building, dating from 1758, being modernized; and mounting the higher hill above the Main Street, the visitor soon gets into the heart of the original Moravian Colony, among the ancient and spacious hip-roofed, slate-covered stone houses, with their ponderous gables. Though dwelling in communism, the Moravians strictly separated the sexes in house, street, church and graveyard, taking good care of the lone females, whether maidens or widows. Here are the
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Widows' House and the
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Single Sisters' House, quaintly attractive with their broad oaken stairways, diminutive windows, stout furniture and sun-dials, tiled and flagged pavements, low ceilings, steep roofs and odd gables. The
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Sisters' House was built in 1742. The
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Congregation House and
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Theological Seminary are also here; and, best known of all, the Moravian
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Young Ladies' Seminary,