308 The Effects of the Thirty Years' War. [March 8, 



The real founder and father of Pietism — and in saying this we render 

 no injustice to his predecessors and teachers, Arndt or Stoll or others 

 — was Philip Jacob Spener, the fullness of whose activity begins not 

 long before the last quarter of the century. But the men of " true 

 Christianity," who first proclaimed the demand for free Christian hfe, 

 not as superseding but as betokening that of faith — the vivi inorum 

 desideriorum, who, while marking the defects of the cure of souls as 

 at present administered, and the care of the Church as now deemed 

 suificient, took the new step of indicating the remedies — the men 

 whose strenuous endeavours were decried as pietismus or malum pietis- 

 ticum. just as their successors in the days of "Wesley were lumped 

 together with the despised and loathed enthusiasts — these were bred, 

 atleast to a large extent in the evil days of the Great War, amidst 

 its excesses and extravagances, its inhumanity and its godlessness ; 

 and they too and their work may in no presumptuous sense be 

 numbered among its effects. 



[A.W.W.J 



