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Ebenezer Colonies
The Ebenezer Colonies consisted of settlements of Inspirationists in what is now the town of West Seneca near the city of Buffalo in western New York State. The Inspirationists migrated here from Germany in 1843. In 1855 they began to leave for Iowa, where they established the Amana Colonies. By 1865 they were gone.
==Christian Metz gathers the Inspirationists in Hesse==
After both Michael Krausert and Barbara Heinemann Landmann lost the gift of Inspiration, Christian Metz was left as the sole leader of the Inspirationists.
During the final years that the Inspirationists lived in Europe, the main task facing Christian Metz was moving them from persecution to safety. Persecution came about because the Inspirationists refused to report for military duty, they refused to take oaths, and they refused to send their children to the schools established by the state. The authorities arrested and fined them. Mobs threw stones through the windows of their meeting houses. People on the street assaulted them verbally and physically.〔Shambaugh, 1908, pp. 49–50.〕
Christian Metz led the Inspirationists to Hesse in Germany, where—for a while, at least—they could live and work in peace. In the 1840s, however, peace began to elude them. Revolution was abroad in Europe, and the ruling classes felt threatened by nonconformists. The rulers began to take away, one by one, the Inspirationists' cherished liberties. Parents had to pay fines for keeping their children out of public schools; and the fines, especially for families with several children, became unbearable. Rents kept rising, and land became too expensive to buy. The very elements turned against the Inspirationists, since excessive heat and drought left them with nothing to gather at harvest time.〔Shambaugh, 1908, pp. 55–56.〕
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