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ing his favorite object, Zinzendorf made various journeys through 

 Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, England and America. 

 In 1742 he held frequent religious discourses at Germantown, in the 

 vicinity of Philadelphia, and in the same year, in a Latin speech de- 

 livered in Philadelphia, formally renounced his title of Count, re- 

 sumed his original family name of von Thumsteen and became 

 familiarly known to the Quakers of that period under the designa- 

 tion of " friend Lewis." 



It was under his immediate agency that the colony at Bethlehem 

 was founded. He did not, however, attain all his successes without 

 undergoing, both in Europe and America, several bitter persecu- 

 tions, but these probably served as usual only to bind his followers 

 in a firmer union, and more effectually to insure their prosperity. 

 After having established his plan in all the four quarters of the 

 globe, and sent out about 1,000 individuals to proclaim his doctrines, 

 he finally died at Herrnhut in 1760, where, we are informed, his ob- 

 sequies were attended by 2,000 of his followers, and his body borne 

 to the grave by 33 of those messengers of his faith who were at the 

 time assembled there from Holland, England, Ireland, Greenland 

 and North America. 



The contemplation of his example, a man who was at once the 

 ancestor of his family and the father of his denomination, with 

 that of other distinguished progenitors, early impressed the imagi- 

 nation of the youthful Schweinitz with an ambition for a career of 

 similar activity, and gave the first impulse towards the acquisition 

 of literary and scientific eminence. 



The society of those friends with whom the early years of his 

 childhood were spent was calculated to inspire him with the same 

 affections and views which had operated on his ancestors for two 

 generations. His mind was here imbued with those principles which, 

 at a later period, shone forth in the purity and simplicity of his 

 manly character. 



Endowed with powers of conception of no ordinary cast, he gave 

 early indications of his bias for intellectual pursuits, and by his as- 

 siduity more than compensated for any deficiency in the means of 

 improvement then within his reach. The clear and explicit manner 

 in which his juvenile ideas were expressed, encouraged his fond pa- 

 rents to indulge the hope that he would one day become an ac- 

 tive instrument in advancing the cause to which themselves and 

 their predecessors had been so assiduously devoted. Being the eldest 

 son of his parents, and at that period of delicate constitution, it 

 is reasonable to suppose that maternal influences had much to do in 



