theologians would be hard pressed to provide their teachings with equational solutions! The Cloister organization was autocratic during Beissel's regime. For want of a more accurate description, the religious form will have to be labeled "Beisselism"; that is to say it was neither Dunker nor Seventh Day

municipality in 1891 until 1938, with the exception of a brief interval from 1911 to 1914, Mr. Sharp had some connection with the Borough as clerk, regulator, surveyor, and borough engineer. Born in Ephrata in 1860, he received his early education from an illus- trious teacher of that day, Mr. John J. Yeager