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.OFFSHOOTS OF PIETISM. MORAVIANS. 325
cling to a small community, however large-hearted and
free from sectarianism. Bengel only founded a school
which penetrated and elevated a larger body, to its great
advantage.
13
In reading the pages of Dorner on the Church of the
Brethren,
14
in which he writes with unaccustomed warmth
and almost unstinted praise of their belief and worship, I
cannot but be carried back to days long past forty-five
years ago when J had the privilege of some acquaintance
with this honoured leader of theological study at Berlin,
when I attended with him on one or two occasions the
services of the Moravian Church, where, I believe, he
found his own most congenial home of worship.
Moravianism had a very early connection with Sweden.
When Zinzendorf founded his community at Herrnhut in
1727 he had a fellow-worker in Assessor C. H. Grundel-
stierna, who was also of use to himself in his own religious
development. Through him and through other Swedes
the Church of the Brethren was introduced into the
country in the years 1739 1744, when two centres were
established, one in Stockholm, and one in West Goth
land. Its influence was great, salutary and opportune,
for Sweden was at this period disturbed in many quarters
by fanatical separatists and mystic visionaries. Mora
vianism itself was for a time drawn into some of these
extravagances, but it recovered about 1760, and continued
to be a rallying point for those who did not find the estab
lished Church sufficiently warm in its life and its attitude
towards our Lord and to His religion.
13
I. A. Dorner : Hist, of Prof. TheoL, ii., pp. 226-7.
14
L.c., pp. 245-8.
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