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He could not even tacitly countenance those who held such tenets without grievous hindrance to his work. One is thankful to learn that he resisted his besetting temptation, and did not send to the Herrnhut brethren a rude letter which he had written, and thankful also to find that he did full justice to the good qualities of Count Zinzendorf.
He was examined in the faith, by the King's command, by two Berlin Divines. The situation was now remarkable. As soon as Zinzendorf became a Bishop, he occupied, in theory, a double position. He was a "Lutheran Bishop of the Brethren's Church."
He directed his main attack against Zinzendorf and the old fanatics at Herrnhaag; and thus he made the English Brethren suffer for the past sins of their German cousins. He accused the Brethren of deceiving the House of Commons. He would now show them up in their true colours.
The lieutenant was in spiritual trouble. "Let me ask you," said Zinzendorf, "one question: Are you alone in your religious troubles, or do you share them with others?" The lieutenant replied that some friends and he were accustomed to pray together. "That is right," said Zinzendorf. "I acknowledge no Christianity without fellowship." In those words he pointed to the loadstar of his life.
Beside her I saw Count Philip de Zinzendorf, who was looking for twelve millions for the empress a task which was not very difficult, as he offered five per cent. interest. At the play I found myself sitting next to the Turkish minister, and I thought he would die with laughter before my eyes. It happened thus: They were playing Iphigenia, that masterpiece of Racine's.
Count Zinzendorf, who succeeded him, did not resemble him at all, but was a perfect Austrian in his manners and his language. I have heard that it was from the excitement of insulted honour that Ravaillac was induced to murder Henri IV.; for that the King had seduced his sister, and had abandoned her during her pregnancy: the brother then swore he would be avenged on the King.
It was then the States first began to view their affairs in another light; to consider how little the vast promises of Count Zinzendorf were to be relied on; to be convinced that France was not disposed to break with Her Majesty, only to gratify their ill humour, or unreasonable demands; to discover that their factious correspondents on this side the water had shamefully misled them; that some of their own principal towns grew heartily weary of the war, and backward in their loans; and, lastly, that Prince Eugene, their new general, whether his genius or fortune had left him, was not for their turn.
As soon as the American Brethren had gained Home Rule, they organized their forces in a masterly manner; arranged that their Provincial Synod should meet once in three years; set apart £5,000 for their Theological College at Bethlehem; and, casting aside the Diaspora ideas of Zinzendorf, devoted their powers to the systematic extension of their Home Mission work.
"Amen," responded the vast, weeping throng. The inscription on the grave-stone is as follows: "Here lie the remains of that immortal man of God, Nicholas Lewis, Count and Lord of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf; who, through the grace of God and his own unwearied service, became the honoured Ordinary of the Brethren's Church, renewed in this eighteenth century.
The ceremony was generally performed by the young, before some special festival. It spread in time to England and Ireland, and was not abandoned till the early years of the nineteenth century81 . We come now to the origin of the "choirs." As Zinzendorf studied the Gospel story, he came to the conclusion that in the life of Jesus Christ there was something specially suitable to each estate in life.
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