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A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book, or a Selection of the Best "Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs": From Various Authors, for the Use of Social ... and Revivals of Religion (Classic Reprint)
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BE IT remembered, that on the twenty-seccmd day or March, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence at the United States of America, A. D. 1825, john wlne brenner, of said district, hath'deposited in this othee the ntle of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to Wit.
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John Winebrenner was an American preacher and author.
Background
John Winebrenner was born on March 25, 1797, in Glade Valley (present-day Walkersville), Maryland, the third son of Philip Winebrenner and Eve Barrick, and a grandson of Johann Christian Weinbrenner, who emigrated from the Rhenish Palatinate to Pennsylvania in 1753 and settled ultimately at Hagerstown, Maryland. From his mother he inherited a strain of Scottish blood, and in temper and appearance he was more Scotch than German.
Education
He attended an academy at Frederick; entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, shortly before it closed its doors in 1816 for a few years and studied theology for three years in Philadelphia under Samuel Helffenstein, son of J. C. A. Helffenstein.
Career
Winebrenner was elected pastor of the German Reformed congregation at Harrisburg, was ordained at Hagerstown on September 28, 1820, by the General Synod of the German Reformed Church. His charge included four rural filials: Middletown, Schupps, and Wenrichs in Dauphin County, and Schneblys (Salem) in Cumberland. His work began auspiciously, for he was a man of real ability, but within two years the extravagance of his revivalistic methods had split his congregations into irreconcilable factions. His conservative, better educated parishioners would not tolerate a minister who demanded total abstinence from them, fraternized with Methodists, held prayer meetings on four evenings of the week, and conducted a "protracted meeting" until four o'clock in the morning, but he won followers, and many of them, among the lowly.
Excluded from his Harrisburg church, he preached in the market place or wherever he could gather a crowd. For several years he lived as an itinerant evangelist, conducting campmeetings at various places in central and western Pennsylvania and in western Maryland. He preached with terrific effect; when he leaned out over the pulpit and shook his long forefinger at his hearers, the more impressionable among them would have fainting fits. In 1828 the German Reformed Synod dropped his name from its roster.
On July 4, 1830, Winebrenner had himself rebaptized; the rite was performed in the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg by a young disciple, Jacob Erb. That summer he and his helpers organized themselves as the General Eldership of the Church of God. The sect grew and extended its activities into Ohio, Indiana, and the Middle West. In 1845 the general organization changed its name to that of the General Eldership of the Churches of God in North America. In 1926 it claimed 428 churches and 31, 596 members. Its founder was for thirty years its leader and theologian, but his leadership was often disputed, and even as a theologian he did not always have his own way. He disliked the idea of footwashing as an "ordinance, " but many of his followers came from the foot-washing sects and, arguing from his own principles of Biblical exegesis, compelled him to accept it. His other teachings were a medley of primitive Methodist and Baptist doctrines. He continued to live in Harrisburg and devoted most of his time to the general work of the sect.
He edited and published two church papers, the Gospel Publisher, 1835 - 1840, and the Church Advocate, 1846 - 1857; compiled English and German hymn books; and issued several volumes of sermons and doctrinal disquisitions. He died on September 12, 1860, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after an illness of two years.