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wheresoever be was carried , and even Trtitii ^ tfceyrwere lasbisg inn * , hej preachy the gospel WitU ^ great success ; ao 4 in coosequence of his witness and suffering's crowds flocked into the Church atHerrnhut , in which there are . if I recolleet right ,
about six hundred adult communicants , four hondred of whom , being under religious convictions , they call illuminated , and two hundred catechumens . They sent out missionaries to propagate the gospel in various parts , and particularly in Lapland , where I am told they met with considerable
success . * Though the Count , -who , it seems , bas taken orders , has devoted his whole estate , which is very considerable , to charitable uses j yet the number of exiles , flowing * in upon them , has been greater than his liberality couid support , - } - which joined with their zoai of propagating- their religion has induced many of them to go over to
Georgia as others have done to Pensylvania . Friend Ingham bad tiie pleasure of the pious company of fifteen in the ship which conveyed him and Mr . Wesley to Georgia , Bfed I cannot forbear mentioning a little circumstance which I find in the journal flow , by ttie favour of tbat fraternity , in my bands , which is , that a violent storm arising , in which the whole company expected to perish , immediately when the
¦ * is said to have ended bis race on Maunday Thursday , 1729 , in prison , after three years' confinement for the sake of the gospel , which he attempted to bring lo his country people in Moravia . Id . pp . 103 and 107 . ? In 1734 three of the Brethren offered to undertake a mission to Lapland . They traversed $ wadish Lapland , bwt attempting a mission to Russian Lapland , they were arrested at Archangel , in 173 $ , a * Swedish Spits , and after fcujferiog £ *«** bardships , brought to Petersburg , wfeere ^> their simplicity and uprightness helped them through . A certain great minister furnished theito with a passport to Lubee , with thtese words : Ye m&y go yotkr way , good people ; your service is not wanted here " Id . p ; if 8 a 189 . 1
f The Brethren early " established a ftfW , edited fty * hera the Lamb s ' or the Saviour * bdhest , which became very consWei-aole by 4 be contributions of the prosejytesof H ^ mMtism . JFVom the beginning two brethren' ivere trtistfcd *> ith it , ofwhotn orie' fctojH ! the eliest and the other tteitey . ** Thfc Countess is « a » id to have ** so well husbamded the scanty funds of W society that n < yfhifrg waa « ver wanting , W ^ pV iri fctt * ikvtrify , * t 0 «^ o * i | t tlw * m ^ otn , erhoo 6 ^ ' tROu ^ H ' t here had < heen a oeces-* fet Offttfnji ^ itfg' ^ rxyito th ^ aoe above one ^ W 6 fr er 6 ? iri ^^ V $ tdtd ^ ' €% tNlf | l « lr 9 ^ p . ^ 281 ' ^ . i - - ' ~ - ¦¦ •>
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English sailors were in the utmost con > s ^ natioa . ^ he Moravians s too d upon dec k ^ i ^ JMW ^^*^ * *« toto ¥ k * of joy anq cohilibsnre' in rbeir iKnintemincea , imagining they were come to the period of
all their trials and just entering- upon glory . On which Mr . Wesley observes that he could not forbear representing to the sailors , in a short discourse , the singular happiness of the servants of God above all others . -
I may , perhaps , communicate to you from their original papers the substance of a conference which these Englishmen had with Mr . Spangenberg . It wiH be soffit cient to add that they soon entered into measures for a mission to the Indians of < 3 eorgia , with some remarkable success . Those poor creatures run seven or eight
miles , after their day ' s work , and spend great part of the night in receiving reJU gkwis instructions , though they are sure , at their return , in the morning , to be most severely scourged by their Christian masters , if their journey has been discovered . J I will , in iny next , which you
may very quickly expect , give you a par ticular account of some very remarkable providences with respect to these Mora * vians which , if they may be believed * on the credit of the gentleman mentioned , are worthy of notice , to which I shall add something further of Mr . Ingham .
I 4 STTE H II . I resume the subject o £ my last , and mention two or three more remarkable circumstances , relating to the Moravians , which I had from my good friend , Mr . Ingham . He tells me there is a most remarkable
spirit of prayer ampngst them , and especially for the propagating of religion in the world ; to which end , that prayers may be made continually , there are a certain number of them formed into two little societies , one of men and the other of women , who do in their turns keep up prayers through all the hours both nigTit and dayltl The
J This is an exact description of the treatment negroes have often endured , but it appears from fl ^ orse that Negroes were not at this time employed in Georgia . It is difficult to understand who were these
Indians , Slaves t& Christian Martyrs , as the school me ^ ftiJioiie . d in Na ^ e * p . 6 d , wo * for the children < rf ( free lutM&nu + the Crqek * , and encouraged by their King Tomo . See Movsa . Qieptg * Svto * # , s 4 && Af # / and La Trobo , Hist . pp . I'M » nU 090 .
| | " M all bvDrfii whether day wm \ gbtt > eome porsuna off ( both sexe « # re ^ pqil ^ d fey xotfttion ^ Ut pr ^ f ^ r % \ $ q ao < m 1 W 3 £ «^^ people , Without oall ^ i ) lpc ^ i ^ rftW ]^^ we w ^ otknmi by m ifi * w $ fwting i * itymPbmr hour cotte ^ an ^ vtyp h 4 bl ^ . * e ** # && $ ' ^ irftlS
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Dr . Doddridges Account $ f { he J&vrqvutn Brethren . 6 /
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/3/
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