. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. y atSalem, a village near Boston;numerous trials were had anda large number of persons were,put to death, while many morelay in prison. At last the terrible affair produced a reaction inpopular feeling, the trials were discontinued and the prisonersliberated. Mather lost his influence from that time. He was thefriend in his old age
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. y atSalem, a village near Boston;numerous trials were had anda large number of persons were,put to death, while many morelay in prison. At last the terrible affair produced a reaction inpopular feeling, the trials were discontinued and the prisonersliberated. Mather lost his influence from that time. He was thefriend in his old age of Benjamin Franklin, who acknowledges hisobligations to some of his writings. Died 1728. Nieolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, founder of the Moraviansettlement of Herrnhuf. and restorer of the sect, was son of GeorgeLouis, Count von Zinze adorf, Saxon minister of state, and was bornat Dresden in 1700. He was piously brought up and fell earlyunder the influence of the Pietist teacher Spener. He was educatedunder the care of Francke, the philanthropist, at Halle and at theUniversity of Wittenberg, and, in opposition to the wish of hisfriends, resolved to enter the church. For a short time he led, itis said, a loose and immoral life. After a stay of three years at. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 61 Wittenberg, during which he gained the friendship of Fredericvon Watteville, a young Swiss noble, and the missionary Ziegen-balg, he visited Holland and France, making the acquaintance ofmany eminent persons and winning general esteem. After his re-turn to Saxony in 1721 he married a sister of his friend theCount of Reuss-Ebersdorff, and soon after he generously offered ahome on his estate to such of his Moravian Brethren as wished toescape the persecution of the Austrian government. The settlers,few, poor, and industrious, established themselves on the spot after-wards so celebrated under the name of Ilerrnhut. Nine years laterCount von Zinzendorf carried out the project he had long che
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