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Low Church Devotion, 1848. Additional Info: In Low Church Devotion, Adolph Tidemand depicts a historical scene from recent Norwegian history. Fifty years previously the lay preacher Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-1820) had travelled about the country and evangelized on farms. The Conventicle Ordinance of 1741 forbade laymen from holding edifying assemblies, and Hauge was arrested and fined several times, even as he laid the foundation for a new, Pietist movement in Norway.