Voices and influences
August Hermann Francke
Started an orphan school with a coin dropped in a poor-box and built a town of charities on it.
Summary
This site quotes August Hermann Francke 5 times across 3 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1663 to 1727, German.
- Quoted here most in Matthew: 2 of 5.
August Hermann Francke
- Lived
- 1663 to 1727
- Nation
- German
- Tradition
- Lutheran
5 of 5 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because August Hermann Francke died in 1727 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“As the whole Affair was never Undertaken upon any settled Provision, but in singleness of Heart and entire Dependance upon God Almighty, so I had not as much now as would suffice to Erect a small House, much less a Large and Publick Hospital.”
Pietas Hallensis (London: J. Downing, 1705), section XXVIII, page 29
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. BSB
“I closely adhered in my Mind to that saying: Seek first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you; ...”
Pietas Hallensis (London: J. Downing, 1705), the third instance, page 37
Undated in the archive this site cites.
The rest of the quotation
And when I was now laying out the last of the Money, I said in my Thoughts, Domine respice ad indigentiam meam; Lord look upon my Necessity.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. BSB
“It seemed to me as if I had spent all my life in a deep sleep; as if I had done every thing only as in a dream, and had now for the first time awoke from it.”
Undated in the archive this site cites.
John 20:31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name. BSB
“When I took this into my Hands, I said in full assurance of Faith: This is now a considerable Fund, worthy to be laid out in some important Undertaking, wherefore I'll even take this for the foundation of a Charity-School.”
Pietas Hallensis, section VII, The beginning of a Charity-School, page 13, 1705
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. BSB
“I took the Bible, and as it were by accident did light on these words: 2 Cor. 9. 8. God is able to make all Grace abound towards you, that ye always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”
Pietas Hallensis, the English printed at London (about 1705), pages 142 to 143
Undated in the archive this site cites.
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. BSB
Influence, on the record
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August Hermann Francke was a young professor at Halle when he put a poor-box in his parsonage and, one day in 1695, found enough money in it to start a school for poor children. What grew from that is still standing: an orphanage, free schools, a teacher-training program, a pharmacy whose profits funded the rest, a bookshop and a printing house — an entire quarter of Halle given over to charity and education. The Canstein Bible Institute, founded under his wing, kept type standing so Bibles could be printed continuously and sold at a price a working family could pay; it turned out them by the hundreds of thousands. Halle-trained men became the first Protestant missionaries to India when Ziegenbalg and Plutschau sailed for Tranquebar in 1706. Francke funded all of it by asking God rather than donors and keeping written accounts of what came in — a practice George Muller later read about and deliberately copied in Bristol.
5 quotations across 3 books