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 . hadended with the complete sup-pression of Protestantism inAustria and the southernstates over which it was suze-rain. In quiet nooks, hereand there, however, it lin-gered on; and Salzburg wasone of these. The rulers ofSalzburg were ecclesiastics,and bore the title of arch-bishop. This new broomarchbishop, Count Firmian,det
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 . hadended with the complete sup-pression of Protestantism inAustria and the southernstates over which it was suze-rain. In quiet nooks, hereand there, however, it lin-gered on; and Salzburg wasone of these. The rulers ofSalzburg were ecclesiastics,and bore the title of arch-bishop. This new broomarchbishop, Count Firmian,determined to uproot theheresy which was contaminating hisflock. He put in force all the terrors ofthe law fine, confiscation, imprison-ment. When the suffering people pleadedthe provisions for religious tolerance con-tained in the treaty of Westphalia, signedeighty years before, he dubbed themrebels, and borrowed Austrian grenadiersto suppress what he was pleased to call arevolt. The matter then became a na-tional one, and Frederick William ofPrussia espoused their cause. Under the provisions of the treaty ofWestphalia, peaceful emigration was thebest solution of the difficulty. The Prus-sian king, Frederick the Greats stern oldfather, as the most powerful Protestant. OLD FORT, FREDERICA, BUILT BY GENERAL OGLETHORPE). The Illustrated History of Methodism. 63 ruler in German}-, insistedupon a fair treatment of therefugees. Count Firmian wasabout to banish them in thecold wintry weather, withoutmaking any provision for theirjourney; but he was compelledto comply with the dictates oflaw, justice and humanity,and allow them a daily dole,The story of their sad de-parture from their homes wastold to Goethe at an impres-sionable time, and is embod-ied in the sweetest of hisverse narratives, Hermannand Dorothea, the only poem of hiaearly life he cared when old to read: Worthy and sorrowful fugitives, who, withwhat goods thcv can carry, Leave their own f.:ir land on the furtherside of the
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