. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . o be made: They thatwait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mountup with wings as eagles (Is. 40: 31). On each side of the inscrip-tion was a picture of an eagle mounting upward toward the sun. With this large institution a bookstore and a drugstore wereconnected and a little later there was added a school for missiona-ries who wereto be sent to the Danish possessions in East India. Thenfollowed an institution for the spreading of the Bible, which stillexists. Thus one building arose after another until the wholeformed
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . o be made: They thatwait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mountup with wings as eagles (Is. 40: 31). On each side of the inscrip-tion was a picture of an eagle mounting upward toward the sun. With this large institution a bookstore and a drugstore wereconnected and a little later there was added a school for missiona-ries who wereto be sent to the Danish possessions in East India. Thenfollowed an institution for the spreading of the Bible, which stillexists. Thus one building arose after another until the wholeformed a little city by itself. THE LUTHERAN CHURCH 249 At the time of Franckes death (1727) there were enrolled in all2,200 pupils, of whom 134 were orphans. Besides the 8 inspectors,167 male and 8 female teachers were employed. The teachers wereprincipally theological students who as pay for their work receivedfree dinners and suppers. Francke was a most prominent educator. He desired to giveto training a practical character, and, hence, during recesses and. The Franckean Institution in Halle. between hours he had the children engage in various like all human efforts his too were imperfect. His teacherslacked the necessary training. The pietistic one-sidedness mani-fested itself in the disproportionately large number of hours forreligious instruction and in the length of the prayers with whichthe instruction was opened and closed. By strict discipline andgloomy seriousness a premature religion was to be infused into thechildren. This was apt in some cases to foster dullness, indifference, 250 THE MODERN ERA and even hypocrisy. These defects became more marked afterFranckes death, when mere forms were to accomplish what agreat and warm-hearted personality alone can do. But in spite of these peculiarities Francke must be counted asone of the very greatest men in the Lutheran Church. He wasindeed a man of prayer and of faith which manifests itself in deedsof love. For the
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