Ziegenbalg now withdrew from his fellow-students. Time and again he was ridiculed. To strengthen himself he accompanied his student-guide on a journey. Nothing much is known about this journey but Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg returned to his environment fully strengthened in spirit. Ridicule now left him untouched. The Bible was his inseparable companion throughout. Ziegenbalg did not shut himself entirely, we see that the world full of suffering making a deep scar on his sensitive mind. He says, “..... Then my eyes were first opened to behold the entire ruin of the children of men, and my astonishment was great to see on the one side the long-suffering of God, who reigns with so much forbearance over a guilty world instead of striking it at once with the rod of his justice, and on the other the great wickedness of men in remaining so proud, shameless and secure in the midst of their misery.” To ease his grief, he started a correspondence with renowned men like Spencer and Francke. This had farreaching results. Francke of Halle referred him to Rektor Joachim Lange of the Friedrich Werder High School in Berlin which would enable Ziegenbalg to finish his preparatory studies before he entered a University. He left Kamenz to join Friedrich Werder High School. Later due to ill-health he was soon obliged to leave Halle. At first, he occupied himself teaching a Merseburg and then at Erfurt, but for short spells only. He then went to spend a year with his sister and then proceeded to Berlin. Whilst at Berlin he received Lutken’s letter, asking for missionaries to be employed by the King of Denmark. At first, Ziegenbalg refused on physical grounds, but he “soon felt himself bound in conscience to go withersoever the Lord should call him.” Heinrich Plutschau, his great friend agreed to go with him.

Frederic IV of Denmark was the King who ruled over Denmark and Norway at that time. He considered as one of the ablest kings who have ruled over his country. He was complete head of the Lutheran Church of Denmark. “It did not please him that the Gospel had not yet been proclaimed to his non-Christian subjects in the overseas colonies.” On the 29th of November, 1705, aboard the ship “Prinzessa Sophia Hedwiga” the two young missionaries Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plutschau set