Revival in the South-West of the Empire and Switzerland.

Zinzendorf and the Dutch money which sustained him for so long were among the forces moving the axis of revival westwards, to the Rhineland, the Netherlands and England. In all of these places, however, he was to find revival already in being or in preparation; and in the South-West a shape was given to his activities by conflict, not with Halle, but with another revival, that of the Inspired. And, different as they were, the Moravians and the Inspired were alike helping to bridge the great gulf in the Protestant world between Lutheran and Reformed, and to plant some of Luther's norms of personal piety in new territory. CHURCH AND STATE IN THE WETTERAU The political and confessional organisation of the Lower Rhine and the North-West of the Empire will be treated in the next chapter. At the very gates of that area, however, many of our present themes, persecution and toleration, state-building and the displacement of old religious shibboleths, emigration and religious revival, were sharply focussed in some tiny Reformed principalities north-east of Frankfurt. Here were a group of counts, constitutionally connected in the Empire by membership of the Wetterau bench, the senior bench of counts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]