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i. ODMAN AND SCHARTAU. 363
LECTURE VIII.
THE MODERN PERIOD (1812 A.D. 1910 A.D.).
i. DEVELOPMENT OF CHURCH LIFE. THE (OLD)
READERS (17601780). REVIVAL OF PIETY
WITHIN THE CHURCH. SAMUEL ODMAN (1750
1829) AT UPSALA AND HENRIK SCHARTAU (1757
1825) AT LUND. STRONG AND WEAK POINTS OF
SCHARTAU .*
The period of neology, which was described in my last
lecture, with its claim to freedom of thought and opinion,
naturally gave an opening to the development of Free
Church life among the older sects of Moravians and
Pietists. It also saw the appearance of a new sect, that of
the Readers (1760 1780), in the northern provinces. They
were so called from their private meetings to read the Bible,
the writings of Luther and the postils of Anders Nohrborg,
"
The way of salvation for fallen man "
(Cp. Lect. VII.,
4). From Herjedal, on the Norwegian frontier, this
revival, which had in it something of a much needed tem
perance movement, passed to Helsingland and then to the
south to Smaland. But it
largely degenerated into
fanaticism, especially at its wild nightly meetings. The
readers were often seized with epileptic fits and convul
sions, and, like our own ranters, often gave vent to deep
sighs and groans, which were taken as signs of the presence
of the Holy Spirit.
1
In writing the following sections, I have made special use
of Bishop Fr. Nielsen s article, Der Protestantismus in den
Nordischen Landen, in Werckshagen s Der Protestantismus,
Vol. II., pp. 997-1003.
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