y otherwise inexplicable things in the later policy of the Church may
be traced to its influence.

Halle Opposition.

In 1734 Zinzendorf took orders in the Lutheran Church, but this, and
all that preceded it, seemed to augment rather than quiet the antagonism
which the development of Herrnhut aroused in certain quarters. This
opposition was not universal. The Moravians had many warm friends and
advocates at the Saxon Court, at the Universities of Jena and Tuebingen,
and elsewhere, but they also had active enemies who drew their
inspiration principally from the University of Halle.

The opposition of Halle seems to have been largely prompted by jealousy.
In 1666 a revolt against the prevailing cold formalism of the Lutheran
Church was begun by Philip Jacob Spener, a minister of that Church,
who strongly urged the need for real personal piety on the part of each
individual. His ideas were warmly received by some, and disliked by
others, who stigmatized Spener and his disciples as "Pietists", but
the doctrine spread, and in the course of time the University of
Halle became its centre. Among those who were greatly attracted by the
movement were Count Zinzendorf's parents and grandparents, and when he
was born, May 26th, 1700, Spener was selected as his sponsor.

Being of a warm-hearted, devout nature, young Zinzendorf yielded readily
to the influence of his pious grandmother, to whose care he was left
after his father's death and his mother's second marriage, and by her
wish he entered the Paedagogium at Halle in 1710, remaining there
six years. Then his uncle, fearing that he would become a religious
enthusiast, sent him to the University of Wittenberg, with strict orders
to apply himself to the study of law. Here he learned to recognize the
good side of the Wittenberg divines, who were decried by Halle, and
tried to bring the two Universities to a better understanding, but
without result.

In 1719 he was sent on an extensive foreign tour, according to custom,
and in the picture gallery of Duesseldorf saw an Ecce Homo with its
inscription "This have I done for thee, what hast thou done for me?"
which settled him forever in his determination to devote his whole life
to the service of Christ.

Rather against his wishes, Count Zinzendorf then took office under the
Saxon Government, but about the same time he bought from his grandmother
the estate of Berthelsdorf, desiring to establish a centre of piety,
resembling