Posted on 12/12/2019 10:38:44 AM PST by Perseverando
Pilgrim Governor William Bradford wrote:
"As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation."
An example of "one small candle" lighting "a thousand" occurred in the early 1700s, with a rich young ruler.
Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was born in 1700 into a noble German family, with his ancestor being Maximillian I, the Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 to 1519.
When Nikolaus was six weeks old, his father died. His mother remarried, and at the age of four, he was sent to live with his pietistic Lutheran grandmother, Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff.
In 1719, at the age of 19, Count Zinzendorf went on his "Grand Tour" - a trip where young aristocrats made their first introductions to the royal courts of France, the Netherlands, and major German kingdoms.
While on this tour, in the city of Dusseldorf, Count Zinzendorf visited a museum, where he viewed a painting by Domenico Feti depicting Christ's suffering.
The painting, titled "Ecce Homo" ("Behold the Man"), had a Latin caption underneath,
"Ego pro te haec passus sum Tu vero quid fecisti pro me," which translated is: "This have I suffered for you; now what will you do for me?"
Young Count Zinzendorf was moved in a profound way.
Convicted in his heart by the Holy Spirit, Count Zinzendorf came to an intensely personal faith in Christ, an experience which was part of a revival movement labeled "Pietism."
In 1722, Count Zinzendorf opened up his estate at Berthelsdorf, Saxony, for persecuted Christians of Europe to come and live together.
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Sorry, obligatory to post this now!:
My ancestor Johann Jorge Kast was mentioned in the Moravian diaries...
Born in Rohrbach in Palatine Germany about 1679 he came to America with his wife Anna Margetha Feg/Feck in 1710 and a few years later had a trading post on the Mohawk River in what is now Herkimer County, NY..
The only white man for miles he would lead the Moravian missionaries to the Indian tribes and interpret for them...He was described as “big and rough but trustworthy”...
bkmk
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