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cellor of the University of Tiibingen, who 

 had been influenced by Pietism, proposed a 

 union between these two churches in Iris 

 " Alloquium Irenicum ad Protestantes." 

 Their points of union in doctrine, he said, 

 were far more important than their points 

 of difference. His thesis found no favor. 

 Even such conciliatoiy theologians as 

 Weismann of Tubingen and Mosheim of 

 Helmstadt opposed it. Forty years later 

 another seed was dropped. Heumann of 

 Gottingen, a Lutheran, wrote a treatise in 

 which he defended the Reformed doctrine 

 of the Supper, and asked why the two 

 churches could not come together, the 

 Reformed holding in abeyance their doc- 

 trine of predestination, and the Lutherans 

 their doctrine of the Supper. In 1764 

 this pamphlet was brought out by Sack, 

 after the author's death, and fell like a 

 bombshell in grave and quiet Germany. 

 Many Lutherans replied to it. Others 

 considered it favorably. 1 At any rate it 

 prepared the way for the determined 

 effort of King Frederick William III., 

 stimulated by the memories of the Refor- 

 mation which came to him at its three 



1 Kurtz, Church Hist., Macphersou's tr., iii. 109-110. 



