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 . -, 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
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 . -, 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 Rhineland. The main body passed through Frank-fort-on-the-Maiu, journeying eastward;this was Goethes native town. ThePrussian king was ready to welcome thewhole of the refugees, over ten thousand.
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