Identifier: 01861476.emory.edu
Title: 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 day. Written in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lee, James Wideman, 1849-1919 Luccock, Naphtali, 1853-1916 Dixon, James Main, 1856-1933
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: St Louis New York : The Methodist magazine publishing co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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n areligious settlement now began to presentthemselves. Care had been taken toadmit into the community only thoselikely to be congenial in creed and char-acter, but this precaution did not pre-vent the inevitable clash of religiousfaction. The arrival of several enthu-siastic young men from Moravia, amongwhom was the David Nitschmann whomWesley afterward met at Savannah, pre-cipitated the crisis. They were jealousfor retaining the old economy that hadexisted in Moravia; while Zinzendorffavored a complete junction with theEutheran Church, of which he was a de- The Illustrated History of Methodism. 81 voted adherent. The matter was finallyreferred to a decision by lot. A child offour years old was chosen to draw thelot; and it was favorable to the conserva-tive party among the Brethren. Church imate continuation of the church lifewhich reached back into the early agesof Christianity; others, more censorious,deem it the creation of a new organiza-tion, with an appeal to the past that was
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IN AMSTERDAM. historians are not quite agreed as to the significance of this step, taken in 1727 Some acquiesce in the contention of the Brethren, that it was a logical and legit-e spurious. They consider the movementto have been, in essence, a developmentof German Pietism. Wesleys journal isfavorable to this view. Q2 The Illustrated History of Methodism However that may be, the decision, loy-ally acquiesced in, healed the differenceswhich threatened to disturb the welfareof the community. The count provedhimself to be a prudent and magnan-imous head. But difficulties, aggravatedby both Jesuits and Lutherans, arosewith the government, and he escapedthe confiscation of his estates only byhaving them privately conveyed to hiswife, and for a time had to reside abroad. who was senior of the Polish Brethren,and recognized as Primarius. Zinzendorf had meanwhile decided toenter into holy orders. Under the as-sumed name of De Freydek he spentsome time at Stralsuud, in Prussia,studying theolog

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