Halle. The coming of the Moravian and other refugees and
their settlement at Herrnhut, near Berthelsdorf, was to him at first
only an incident; but as their industry and the preaching of Pastor
Rothe, whom he had put in charge of the Berthelsdorf Lutheran Church,
began to attract attention, he went to Halle, expecting sympathy from
his friends there. Instead he met with rebuke and disapproval, the
leaders resenting the fact that he had not placed the work directly
under their control, and apparently realizing, as he did not, that the
movement would probably lead to the establishment of a separate church.

In spite of their disapprobation, the work at Herrnhut prospered, and
the more it increased the fiercer their resentment grew. That they,
who had gained their name from their advocacy of the need for personal
piety, should have been foremost in opposing a man whose piety was his
strongest characteristic, and a people who for three hundred years, in
prosperity and adversity, in danger, torture and exile, had held "Christ
and Him Crucified" as their Confession of Faith, and pure and simple
living for His sake as their object in life, is one of the ironies of
history.

Nor did the Halle party confine itself to criticism. Some years later
Zinzendorf was for a time driven into exile, and narrowly escaped the
confiscation of all his property, while its methods of obstructing the
missionary and colonizing efforts of the Moravians will appear in the
further history of the Georgia colony.

Chapter II. Negotiations with the Trustees of Georgia.

The Schwenkfelders.

Among those who came to share the hospitalities of Count Zinzendorf
during the years immediately preceding the renewal of the Unitas
Fratrum, were a company of Schwenkfelders. Their sojourn on his estate
was comparatively brief, and their association with the Moravian Church
only temporary, but they are of interest because their necessities led
directly to the Moravian settlements in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

The Schwenkfelders took their name from Casper Schwenkfeld, a Silesian
nobleman contemporary with Luther, who had in the main embraced the
Reformer's doctrines, but formed some opinions of his own in regard
to the Lord's Supper, and one or two other points. His followers were
persecuted in turn by Lutherans and Jesuits, and in 1725 a number of
them threw themselves on the mercy of Count Zinzendorf. He permitted
them to stay for a while at Herr