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 . CANAL VlliW, ROTTERDAM 80 The Illustrated History oe Methodism masters permission he allotted to Davidand his friends a piece of ground at Bert-holdsdorf, near Zittau and close to theBohemian frontier. It was a somewhatunattractive site near a hill known asHutberg, or Protection Hill. Whensome were complaining of the lack o
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 . CANAL VlliW, ROTTERDAM 80 The Illustrated History oe Methodism masters permission he allotted to Davidand his friends a piece of ground at Bert-holdsdorf, near Zittau and close to theBohemian frontier. It was a somewhatunattractive site near a hill known asHutberg, or Protection Hill. Whensome were complaining of the lack ofconveniences, their leader, ChristianDavid, striking his ax into one of thetrees, burst forth with a quotation fromthe Eighty-fourth Psakn: Yea, the spar-row hath found an house, and the swal-low a nest for herself, where she maylay her young, even thine altars, OEord of hosts, my King, and my ROYAL PALACE, AMSTERDAM. This served as a signal for commencingthe work of building, and put a final endto all hesitation. The kindly grandmother of the count,Frau von Gersdorf, who lived near by,sent them a cow, and things progressedso favorably that by the first week inOctober, 1722, they had completed ahabitable dwelling. The name thecount would have preferred for the set-tlement was Bethel; but that which waseventually decided upon was Herrnhut,or The Eords Protection. At theclose of the year, when the count re-turned with his bride, he was surprisedand delighted to notice the progress made. He stopped to bid the Moravianswelcome and, kneeling down on theroad with them, invoked a blessing onthe undertaking. Shortly afterward heentered a new mansion that had beenbuilt for him at Bertholdsdorf. For the next half-a- dozen years thecount was divided between his publicduties at Dresden, where he held anoffice of state, and the care of the grow-ing settlement, which was fast becominga c
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