4. The bread and wine present to view, | I. His body on the cross,

In pangs which mortals never knew ;
T'enrich us by his lofs.

5. His blood doth wafh the fouls of
And purge their fins away; [men,
It makes their guilty natures clean,
And fits for endless day.

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and is an ardent desire to proofmote the falvation of their fellowmen, by making known to them the gofpel of our Saviour Jefus Chrift. It grieved them to hear ' of fo many thousands and millions of the human race, fitting in darknefs, and groaning be

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AVING given this generalneath the yoke of fin, and the fketch of the origin of the tyranny of Satan; and remem Moravians, of their fettlement and bering the glorious promises givprogrefs in the United States, 'en in the word of God, that the of their doctrines, peculiarities heathen alfo fhould be the reward and difcipline; the way is prepar- of the fufferings and death of ed for the exhibition of their fin- Jefus ; and confidering his comgular zeal, perfeverance, fuccefs, mandment to his followers, To and manner of propagating the go into all the world and preach the gofpel among the heathen, in the 'gospel to every creature, they were various parts of the world. 'filled with confident hopes, that if they went forth in obedience

While fome other denominations of Chriftians fhow great zeal in propagating their peculiar notions among Chriftians, and in making divifions, and alienations among them, the Moravians have manifefted their zeal, charity and self-denial in propagating the gospel among thofe to whom the true God and our Lord Jefus Chrift were not known. They fay in their publications, "The fimple motive

unto, and believing in his word, 'their labor would not be in vain in the Lord. They were not difmayed in reflecting on the 'fmallness of their means and abilities, and that they hardly 'knew their way to the heathen, whofe falvation they fo ardently, longed for, nor by the profpect of enduring hardships of every kind, and even, perhaps, the lofs of their lives in the attempt; but their love to their Saviour

of the brethren for fending mif'fionaries to diftant nations, was, VOL. I. No. E. L

and their fellow-finners for whom, rous nations, to ferve the fame 'he fhed his blood, far outweigh-glorious caufe. No fooner had the United Brethren gained a peaceful fettlement, and a small degree of property, in the several countries in which they were strangers, than they began to fend their miffionaries among the nations, who were perifhing for lack of vifion. They have sent them, and are ftill fending them into the four

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• ed all these confiderations. They
went forth in the ftrength of
their God, and he has wrought
⚫ wonders in their behalf. Bleffed
be God, this day, the fame fpirit
prevails in the congreations of
the United Brethren, and there
' has been a continual and increaf-
ing fucceffion of perfons who have
'offered themselves to fupply va-quarters of the earth.
cant places, or to enter upon new
miffions, notwithstanding the dan-
gers and hardships attending the
'fervice are set before them with-
out any difguife or paliation
whatsoever. From a very fmall
beginning the miffions of the
brethren have increafed to 26
⚫ fettlements, in different parts of
the earth, in which near 140
⚫ miffionaries are employed, a num-
• ber hardly fufficient for the care
' of about 23,000 converts from
among the heathen."+

At

In 1732, they fent miffionaries to the Danish Weft-India Iflands, and made fix fettlements in them; Two, New Herrnhut and Nifky, in St. Thomas's; Friedensberg and Friedenfthal in St. Croix, and Bethany and Emmaus in St. John's. At New Herrnhut in 1795, there were 38 adults and 20 children baptized, and 12 were admitted from other denominations. The whole congregation confifted of 909, exclufive of the children. At Nifky, there were, the fame year,į 45 adults and 23 children baptized, and 24 admitted to communion. The whole number of communicants in this black congregation was 583, and the whole congre gation confifted of 1246. Friedenfberg in St. Croix, there were baptized and received into the congregation, in 1795, 138 adult perfons, and 49 children were baptized. The number of communicants was 804, and there were 128 candidates for communion. There were 951 baptized perfons and 219 candidates for baptifm. The number of baptized children was 548. Total amount of fouls in the congregation 2650. At Friedenthal on the fame Ifland there were this year 175 adults and 61 children baptized. There were 1342 communicants, 1628 †This was written in 1796, fince baptized people, and 328 candiwhich time the converts have confid-dates for baptifm. The whole erably increafed. number of fouls 4563. At Beth

Such has been the zeal and perfeverance of this poor people, in fpreading the favor of the Redeemer's name, that no hardfhips nor dangers, by land or fea, no diftance of country, no ftupidity or barbarity of nations, no expenfe of which they are capable, no long and total feparation from their country, friends and dearest connections, no perfecutions nor difappointments could damp their courage, deprefs their fpirits, or interrupt their endeavors. If unfuccefsful and difappointed in one place, with an unabating zeal and fortitude they purfue their attempts in another. Even the feebler fex appear to vie with the miffionaries, in making voyages, and in travelling to the moft diftant and barba

any, in St. John's there were, at the fame time, 258 communicants, and the congregation exclufive of children, amounted to 487. At Emmaus, the fame year, were 249 communicants, and the whole congregation confifted of 569 fouls.

In 1733 the brethren fent mif. fionaries into the frozen regions of Greenland, and effected three fettlements, New Herrnhut, Litchtenfels, and Litchtenau, in that country. In the year 1796, there were in these fettlements 621 belonging to the feveral congregations, of whom 236 were communicants.

the earnest application of the United Brethren, to the Dutch government, and the generous influence of their friends, leave was, fome years fince granted for the miffion to proceed. In confequence of this, it was renewed in 1793, and three Mishonaries fent to the Cape.* The congregation there had kept together, and had read the bible for their inftruction and edification. Since the English government has been established there, countenance has been more decidedly given to the miffion, and it is now proceeding under the most favorable afpects. A wild people In 1736, one George Schmidt, among the Hottentots, called a man of most distinguished zeal Bufhmen, and who were very and courage, began a miffion a- troublefome, it feems, have made a mong the Hottentots, at the Cape treaty of peace with the English, of Good Hope, a people the moft and earnestly petitioned for Mifftupid and uncivilized of any up- fionaries. Some of the Hottenon the earth, whofe language is tots have been taught both to read most irregular, and of all others and write. Martha, one of the perhaps the most difficult to be Hottentot fifters, compofed a letlearned. Yet by his indefatigable, ter in Low Dutch and fent to the perfevering labors, he made him- Directors in England, in which felf fo far master of their language, are the following pious and Chrif and fo far taught them his own, tian expreffions and fentiments, "I that a fmall congregation of believ-let you know that I cannot thank ers was there gathered unto the enough, our dear Saviour, for Lord. Some of them were taught bringing me to this place; where to read the bible, in the Dutch lan-elfe would my poor foul have But on his return to Europe, guage. C come to! I am now about two to make report of the fuccefs of years here. When I think how his mission, and to obtain assistants 'I was before my baptifin, I have in his important work, to his un- 'committed all fins, and what I fpeakable mortification, he was pro- now feel, I am quite ashamed! hibited to refume his labors. ItOur Saviour has even granted had been infinuated, by evil mind-me the grace to enjoy his body ed people, into the Dutch government, that the propagation of Chriftianity among the Hottentots I would differve the interests of the colony. The school for the inftruction of the Hottentots, which, according to the accounts received, confifted of about a hundred children, was broken up or greatly in-terrupted by the Dutch. But by Cloof.

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and blood in the Lord's fupper! I feel I am very poor and mean,

yet I feel his peace in my heart. pray that my Saviour may keep me, until I fhall come to him; then I will much more thank 'him for his love, which he hath

This fettlement is named, Bavians