So it was that, saving its soul, it lost it.

The vineyard must be taken away from it.
And there were no other husbandmen to take the vineyard.

The petty German sects, representing so large a part of the population, were isolated by their language and habits.

The Lutherans and the Reformed, trained in established churches to the methods and responsibilities of parish work, were not yet represented by any organization.

The Scotch-Irish Presbyterian immigration was pouring in at Philadelphia like a flood, sometimes whole parishes at once, each bringing its own pastor; and it left large traces of itself in the eastern counties of Pennsylvania, while it rushed to the western frontier and poured itself like a freshet southwesterly through the valleys of the Blue Ridge and the Alleghanies.