History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . nt at Halle, began the Moravian mission work in Green-land, and imparted to his followers and successors that intensemissionary zeal which places this Church at the head of allProtestant bodies in mission work to this day. A man of win mi the Lutheran Church is justly proud, Chris- 119 PIONEER LUTHERAN ISM IN PENNSYLVANIA tian Frederick Schwartz, of Halle, began his work in 1750. Asteacher, founder of schools, scholar,
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . nt at Halle, began the Moravian mission work in Green-land, and imparted to his followers and successors that intensemissionary zeal which places this Church at the head of allProtestant bodies in mission work to this day. A man of win mi the Lutheran Church is justly proud, Chris- 119 PIONEER LUTHERAN ISM IN PENNSYLVANIA tian Frederick Schwartz, of Halle, began his work in 1750. Asteacher, founder of schools, scholar, preacher, friend of thepeople, servant of the English Government, he so impressed hislife upon India that he is still honored there, a German oak inthe land of palm. He died in the act of singing one of ouroldest and sweetest hymns (B. of W. No. 243). He well deservesthis tribute from a History of Missions: In Tanjore to-day onesees a marble monument erected by the prince of Tanjore in themidst of the city, a granite tablet placed by the foreigners inSchwartzs Chapel, and a second monument in St. Marys Church,Madras, erected by the East India Company; but not one or all. THE HALLE INSTITUTIONS IN 1719 The main building, to the left, has always contained the apothecary shop, book storeand the Latin School for Boys. The other buildings are halls, dormitories, dining-rooms, dwellings. Francke lived in a house facing the main building. The buildingshave been added to, and the scholars enrolled now number about 3000 students. Ofthese 140 are orphans and wholly dependent. of them begins to express what the consecrated pioneer, Schwartz,founder of the first Protestant church in Tinnevelley, did forHindustan.—Via Christi, p. 206. This Halle spirit of a life of inward piety, of charity for thepoor and orphaned, and of a desire to preach the gospel in allthe world, encouraged the three men who went from Philadel-phia to Germany in 1734 to appeal for a minister of the HolyGospel, to ent
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