Every department of ecclesiastical authority having become disarranged and weakened, there must now be a reaewakening, or the labors of Luther and his coadjutors will be swept away. The popular mind should be deflected from controversy, and become united, at least on some points of faith and theory. The pulpit needs a thorough regeneration, and the Gospel should reach the masses by a natural and earnest method. The university system calls for reorganization, and a rigid censorship exercised upon the teachings of the professors. Childhood must be no longer neglected, and the illiterate must become indoctrinated into the elements of Scriptural truth. The prevalent social evils should receive severe rebuke from the private Christian and the public teacher. Calixtus, Boehme, Arndt and Gerhard have done nobly, but they have pursued paths so totally divergent that their labors have not produced all the good effects of a _united_ work. Their efforts were preparatory, but not homogeneous; and what is now needed to make their writings and example permanently effective, is a plan for infusing new life into the church. Then there must be inflexible system and heroic determination for the consummation of such a plan. When the demand became most imperative, the great want was supplied. Let all the records of providential supply and guidance be studiously searched, and we believe that Pietism--the great movement which we are now about to trace--will take its place among them as one of the clearest, most decided, and most triumphant. FOOTNOTES: [16] Kurtz, _Church History_, vol. 11, p. 177. [17] Tholuck, _Das Kirchliche Leben des Siebzehnten Jahrhunderts. Erste Abtheilung._ For much information in the present chapter we are greatly indebted to this valuable repository. [18] Dowding, _Life and Correspondence of Calixtus_, pp. 153-154. [19] _H. B. Smith, D. D., History of Church of Christ in Chronological Tables_, pp. 56-61. [20] _History of German Protestantism_, p. 21. [21] _Orationes Selectae_, Henke, vol. 1, pp. 285-286. [22] We use Dr. E. B. Pusey's version of Andreae's words. [23] 1602: Der Frau Gerlach (Prof. Theol.) Tochter ist in Geschrei, dass sie mit einem kinde gelie. 1613: Dr. Happrecht's Tochter hat ihre Jungfrauschaft verloren. 1622: Dr. Magirus klagt dass seine Frau die Dienstboten ihm nicht zur Disposition stelle, mit den _Alimentis_ nicht zufrieden sei, immer Gaeste einlade, und viel herum laufe. Frau Magirus klagt ihren Ebemann des Ehebruchs an. Tholuck, _Deutsche Universitaeten_. Vol. 1, pp. 145-148. Also Dowding, _Life and Correspondence of Calixtus_, pp. 132-133. CHAPTER III. PIETISM AND ITS MISSION.