Montreux . ticipatedthe movement known as the Reveil. At Geneva, indeed, there were Pietists evenbefore Spener, though they had not yet adoptedthe name. Much of what Spener taught at Hallehe had learnt from the Genevan pastor Labadie, anex-Jesuit, who afterwards went to Holland, wherehe founded the small sect of mystics which bearshis name. He left Geneva in 1666, finding himselftoo pious for that city, and Picot, the historian,remarks: The magistracy saw without regret the departureof a man who, in spite of his distinguished talentfor preaching, had made himself almost intolerableby his restl
Montreux . ticipatedthe movement known as the Reveil. At Geneva, indeed, there were Pietists evenbefore Spener, though they had not yet adoptedthe name. Much of what Spener taught at Hallehe had learnt from the Genevan pastor Labadie, anex-Jesuit, who afterwards went to Holland, wherehe founded the small sect of mystics which bearshis name. He left Geneva in 1666, finding himselftoo pious for that city, and Picot, the historian,remarks: The magistracy saw without regret the departureof a man who, in spite of his distinguished talentfor preaching, had made himself almost intolerableby his restless and scheming character. He oftenused to speak evil of the magistrates in the pulpit,and in foreign countries he used to disparage thetown and University. His sermons were excessivelyand ridiculously long ; on Sunday evenings in winterhe sometimes used to extend them well into thenight. At his own house, too, he used to holdgatherings at which more than a hundred persons THE OLD CHURCH AT LA TOUR DEPEILZ. THE PIETISTS 63 of both sexes used to meet, forming a specialreligious sect. Tlie Council had often admonishedhim for his doings, but always without result. A little later, however, we begin to hear ofPietists by name, and it is again to Picot thatwe must go for an account of them. In his rela-tion of the events of 1718 he says : It was observed that there were in the City aconsiderable number of Pietists of both sexes. TheCouncil and the Consistory, which had long treatedthem with leniency, finally thought it well to giveserious attention to their behaviour. It was estab-lished that these Sectarians used frequently tomeet together to the number of thirty or forty,and that some of them claimed to be inspired, andcommunicated their prophecies and the results oftheir inspiration, while others set themselves up aspreachers. It was also demonstrated that a certainnumber of women belonging to the sect fell intoidle habits, to the point of neglecting their familiesand their house
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