Protestant Missions, Their Rise And Early Progress
Protestant Missions, Their Rise And Early Progress
A C Augustus Charles Thompson
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The immediate occasion of this new move- ment was a widow's distress. One evening in the month of March, 1705, Frederick sits read- 1 Alex J. D. jyOney : Portuguese Discoveries, Dependencies, and Missions in Asia and Africa, London, '. Digitized by VjOOQ IC 152 PROTESTANT MISSIONS. ing petitions from his people. Among them is one from a widow whose husband and eldest son, belonging to the garrison at Tranquebar, have been murdered by the natives. She asks aid for herself and her five remaining ...children. The king affords help; but immediately sends for his chaplain, Dr. Liitkens, whom ngm * he had called the year before from Berlin, to consult with him about a mission to India. The good man enters warmly into the plan, and, though in a time of war, he is com- missioned to look out for candidates. They are not, however, to be found in Denmark. 1 The new spiritual life, reproachfully termed "Pietism," having Halle for its center, was felt but slightly in this neighboring kingdom; and Frederick authorized his court preacher, who had been his religious instructor in youth, to seek missionaries elsewhere.
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