. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . render military and civil service. Theyeven disregard common courtesies, such as bowing topersons or raising the hat or using titles in addressingany one. Their dress is of a peculiar type and is not subject to the changesof fashion. The Quakers have dis-tinguised themselves bytheir struggles for reli-gious liberty, the aboli-tion of slavery, prisonreforms (Elizabeth Fry),and similar philan-thropic movements. 102. The certain Count Zinzen-dorf, who had receivedhis training in theFranckean Establish-ment in Halle had of-fere
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . render military and civil service. Theyeven disregard common courtesies, such as bowing topersons or raising the hat or using titles in addressingany one. Their dress is of a peculiar type and is not subject to the changesof fashion. The Quakers have dis-tinguised themselves bytheir struggles for reli-gious liberty, the aboli-tion of slavery, prisonreforms (Elizabeth Fry),and similar philan-thropic movements. 102. The certain Count Zinzen-dorf, who had receivedhis training in theFranckean Establish-ment in Halle had of-fered a place of refuge tothe Moravian Brethrenand other Protestant refugees from Catholic persecu-tions on his estate of Bertelsdorf in Lusatia. Thusarose the Herrnhut Colony. Here he organized, in 1727,a new Brotherhood, which he would make into a re-servoir in which he might collect every little brooklet ofliving water, from which he might again water thewhole world. From the name of the colony the mem-bers are also known as Herrnhuters. Zinzendorf had. ZlNZENDORF. THE SECTS 277 himself consecrated as their bishop and labored withuntiring zeal to the end of his life (1760) for the ad-ministration and development of the new successor Spangenberg developed their doctrinalviews in a work known as Idea Fidei Fratrum. In doctrine the Herrnhuters, or Moravian Brethren,approach the Lutheran Church very closely and have,indeed, adopted the Augsburg Confession. A certainone-sidedness, however, manifests itself in their doctrinalviews. Thus they emphasize almost exclusively thework of the Son in mans salvation, ignoring that of theFather and the Holy Ghost. In the work of the Son, again,they present especially his atoning death, which theyregard less as a substitutionary satisfaction for the sinof the world than as a divine love-sacrifice. Hence, theypreach almost exclusively the Gospel of Gods love andseek in this way to call forth an answering love andgratitute in mens h
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