The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . religious societies. The leaven wasworking in many centers. An inter-esting series of references to the Herrn-huter community, descriptive of the The Illustrated History of Methodism 83 influence exercised on contemporariesby their hymns, is to be found inthe sixth book of Goethes WilhelmMeisters Apprenticeship: I lookedupo
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . religious societies. The leaven wasworking in many centers. An inter-esting series of references to the Herrn-huter community, descriptive of the The Illustrated History of Methodism 83 influence exercised on contemporariesby their hymns, is to be found inthe sixth book of Goethes WilhelmMeisters Apprenticeship: I lookedupon the count, says the Fair Sain/who therein makes her Confession, andhis followers as very heterodox; and sothe Ebersdorf hymn-book, which myfriend had pressed on me, lay , in this total destitution of ex-ternal excitements for my soul I opened One convert, from Goethe s own townof Frankfort-ou-Main, was destined tocarry the leaven across the channel. Thiswas Peter Bbhler, who came to Pondonearly in 173s, when twenty-five yearsold, his ultimate destination being Amer-ica, where he was to become the founderof Nazareth in Pennsylvania, a modelreligious colony Two others, namedRichter and Xeiser, accompanied very first week after his arrival from. Tin-; MARKiir, the hymn-book, as it were, by chance,and found in it, to my astonishment,some songs which actually, though ina fantastic form, appeared to shadowwhat I felt. The originality and sim-plicity of their expression drew me seemed to be peculiar emotions ex-pressed in a peculiar way: no schooltechnology suggested any notion of for-mality or commonplace. I was thusa Herruhut sister on my own footing. Georgia, John Wesley met the threeGermans at the house of a Dutch mer-chant named Weinantx; and he makes aspecial entry of the occurrence in hisdiary. It was a day much to be remem-bered. As they were without acquaint-ances in the great capital, he securedthem lodgings, and thereafter lost no op
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