German Hymnology [pp. 574-602]

German Hymnology.
to the peculiarities of the Halle school; but the flow of evangelical affection was common to both. He died in 1737.
More exactly representing the Halle school was JOHN
ANASTASIUS FREYLINOHIAUSEN, son-in-law of Francke. The
singular fact has often been mentioned that some of his best
hymns were dictated during fits of severe toothache. He
edited several valuable collections of hymns; his own were
not very numerous, but some of them are admirable.*
CHARLES HENRY VON BOGATZKY is known to our readers,
not by his hymns so much as by his'Treasury.' He was born
1690. His father's family was Hungarian, but settled in
Lower Silesia. While his father, who was an army officer,
was away in the wars the boy was under the instructions of a
pious mother. Dr. Hagenback remarks that it was an age in
which more than in ours children of early years were favoured
with heavenly communion. Bogatzky's soul was thus drawn
out to devotion, praise and poetry. His youth was moulded
by the writings of Arnd ane Scriver. After once perusing a
sermon in Scriver's'Soul-Treasury,' he was overcome of heavenly joy so that he had to fall on his knees and pour out his
heart in praise. "A true light," says he, "streamed into my
soul, and I was made to see, that true Christianity is something living, powerful, blessed, and altogether different from
what the world thinks. I learned the difference between a
mere moral, virtuous disposition, and a work of grace by the
Holy Ghost, or those divine virtues which are wrought in us
by the Holy Ghost, and flow from faith and joy in the Holy
Ghost." At the university of Jena, he received much advantage from the pious influence of the celebrated Buddeus. At
Halle he became fully under the preaching and example of
Franche. Freylinghausen was his spiritual adviser. Though
he was not a professional man, but a gentleman of fortune,
living on his estate, he was much in visiting the sick, doing
good among the poor, and leading souls to Christ. He was
eminently happy in his married relation, and records the advantage derived from the prayers he offered with his wife.
Frequently also he held what we should call prayer-meetings.
*' Wer ist wohl wie du,'' Kommt ihr Menschen,' Mein Herz gib dich ifrieden.'
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