The Stream from Herrnhut

In 1722, a handful of persecuted Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They were exhausted, homeless, and few in number. Zinzendorf offered them a patch of land, and they built a tiny village called Herrnhut — "the Lord's Watch." For five years, the settlement sputtered with internal quarrels and theological disputes. It seemed like nothing more than a trickle seeping from beneath a threshold.…