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LEFT ARMINIANISM 260 ARMINIX7S seeutions, and at length, in 1619, the doctrines of the Arminians were con- demned by the Synod of Dort, and their clergy were driven from their churches, and forbidden the exercise of their min- dwindled to a small body, but their tenets, especially regarding predestina- tion, have been adopted by various other denominations, as the Wesleyan Metho- dists. GERMAN TERRITORY OCCUPIED BY ALLIES AND AMERICAN TROOPS UNDER ARMISTICE TERMS ^>^^;y/^ OCCUP/ED G£/^MAN -^^^^^^ TERRITORY r^yy><>i^ QQUfjpfyl^YUN£Of " 6MILE N£UTf?fiL ZO/^£ UNITS 0F30MILE D£MIUTfiRIZ£D AR£A iCAL£ OF MILES OCCUPATION OF GERMANY UNDER TERMS OF THE ARMISTICE istry in public. Owing to this step, many left the country, and found refuge in France, England, and other places. After 1630 the Arminians were again tolerated in Holland; but from that time, their opinicus underwent a considerable change. They chiefly build on the neces- sity of moral duties and good works, and allow each one to interpret the Holy Scriptures for himself. The Arminians ARMINIUS, or HERMANN, who by his intrepidity and success acquired the title of "the Deliverer of Germany," was son of Segimer, a chief of Cherusci. Hav- ing been sent to Rome as a hostage, he was there educated, served in the Roman army and for his valor was raised to citizenship and knighted. But his attachment to his native country in- duced him to revolt and he became one