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It will be the design of this chapter to provide an account of the Schwenkfelder hymn-writers whose activity had terminated before the emigration of the sect to America. Limitation in the matter of space necessitates the exclusion of much interesting material which had been prepared for this part of our narrative. Consequently we shall confine the account to a chronological list of these writers and a series of brief biographical sketches of the more important members of the group. Those writers who were among the immigrants will be treated in our account of the American period in subsequent chapters.

The Schwenkfelder hymn-writers of the European period are:

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