{"id":3063,"date":"2021-07-26T18:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2021-07-26T18:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:40:57","slug":"mohrsville-holds-vespers-at-historic-meetinghouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/07\/26\/mohrsville-holds-vespers-at-historic-meetinghouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohrsville holds vespers at historic meetinghouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/Pricetown.jpg\" alt=\"Stone meetinghouse\" class=\"wp-image-3062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/Pricetown.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/Pricetown-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/Pricetown-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/Pricetown-560x207.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption><em>Pricetown meetinghouse about 2010. Courtesy of Brethren Historical Library and Archives. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohrsvillecob.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mohrsville (Pa.) Church of the Brethren<\/a> held its annual Pricetown Vesper Service on Sunday, July 18, at 7 p.m. Fred Steinruck led the service with hymns and special music. \u201cVisitors are welcome to worship in the oldest unaltered Church of the Brethren in America,\u201d said an invitation. \u201cCome and enjoy an evening in a peaceful setting just like it was long ago.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshistory.org\/multimedia\/articles\/brethren-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pricetown meetinghouse<\/a> was built in the year 1777 by Brother Martin Gaube, who was born in 1742 and died in 1812. The announcement noted that Gaube was ordained to eldership in the church by Christopher Sauer Jr. on Aug. 12, 1780, two years after Sauer was released from prison for operating a printing press and refusing to serve in the Revolutionary War. The announcement described the meetinghouse as having walls of rough stone about 2 feet thick, and dimensions of 30 by 25 feet in its main building and 16 by 16 feet in an addition used for preparation of love feast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/Pennsylvania_Pricetown.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3061\"\/><figcaption><em>Photo courtesy of Brethren Historical Library and Archives. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohrsville Church of the Brethren held held a vespers service at Pricetown Meetinghouse on July 18. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,1],"tags":[106,111,110,107,108,109,112],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-northeast","category-uncategorized","tag-02-382","tag-bhla","tag-history","tag-mohrsville-church-of-the-brethren","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pricetown-meetinghouse","tag-vespers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}