Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Templers are members of the Temple Society, a German Protestant sect with roots in the Pietist movement of the Lutheran Church. The Templers were expelled from the church in 1858 because of their millennial beliefs. Their aim was to realize the apocalyptic visions of the prophets of Israel in the Holy Land. Membership in the Temple Society as of 2009 was about 1000 members. The Templers are sometimes confused with the unrelated Knights Templar, a Crusader order. The word Templer is derived from the concept of the Christian Community as described in the New Testament, where every person and the community are seen as temples in which God's spirit dwells. While in Germany the Templers were regarded sectarians, the Evangelical proselytes gained major financial and mental support from German Lutheran and united church bodies. This created an atmosphere of mistrust and envy among the colonists of different denominational affiliation.

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