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Rh manuscript produced, he leads all the transcribers of the Schwenkfelders in America, admitting the possible exception of Rev. Balthaser Hoffmann. It was he who executed (1758-59) the last rearrangement of the Weiss hymn-collection, to which he added 120 hymns. In the period 1760-1780, he was prominent in the movement for the organization of the sect, and was one of the five "Haus-vater" of the Lower District at whose homes in routine the Sunday meetings for worship were held. He was also a liberal contributor to the fund established (1764) for the founding and suppot of the school system inaugurated that year. Miss Flora Krauss Heebner, missionary of the Schwenkf elder Church, who is stationed at Shansi, China, and her brother, Rev. Harvey Krauss Heebner, pastor of the First Schwenkfeldian Church of Philadelphia, are lineal descendants of Hans Christoph Hübner. He died at the age of 82 years.

The story of the folio volumes bearing the dates of 1758 and 1759, may be both simply and briefly told. In point of content, the former consists of the second collection, as compiled and arranged by George Weiss, excluding the "Psalm-Lieder," the "Biblische Geschichte," the Sudermann hymns based on the Song of Solomon, the "Meditationes," the "Evangelia-Gesange" and the "Epistel-lieder." Of these six series, three were included in the collection of 1709 and the others added by George Weiss In a word, the manuscript hymn-book dated 1758 is composed of the miscellaneous hymns of the collection of Caspar Weiss and the miscellany of the George Weiss addition. These hymns, treating exhaustively every phase of Christian doctrine, are grouped by the various articles ("Artickel") so-called, of the Christian creed and doctrine, consecutively presented. Furthermore, the hymns of each "Artickel" are prefaced with a summary of the teaching they contain. Those hymns which are translations of hymns by the church-fathers, are in most cases given in parallel columns with their Latin originals.

The re-distribution of the hymns having advanced this far, the task remained of submitting to a like arrangement the hymns