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been 'found in us (as wise and totriyl/4 men
I,tive sometimes thought) any thing true, any
'thing honest, any thing just, any thing
..any (Ring pure and of good report'; if any virtue
and Lily praise ; care must be taken, that it may
not die with us, when we die; and at least that
The vety foundations of our Muth be not buried
'under its present ruins, so that generations to
cone may not know where to look for them.
And, indeed, this .care is taken, and provision is
made on fbis 'behalf by our trust committed to
your hands."

Sixty years after this period, the 'Church of
the Brethren was raised as it were Itont the dead,
by a persesentican intended to crush its last real-
mint in Moravia. Some families flying from
thence, found refuge on the estates of Count Zin-
eendorf, in Lusatia, where they built a humble
(Herrnhur), which is now the principal
- Settlement of the Brethren. As their country-
men joined them, their Congregations gradually
multiplied thrceneli Germany, and a few Were esta-
blished in Denmark, Seceder?, Russia, holland,
told North America, The Brethren first appeared
it, Eoeland about the middle of the last century,
where (!hough the most malignant cali!maies Crete
circulated against them), in the simplicity of con-
scioes innocence, they laid their case helot e Par-
liament. Their doctrines, digit ipiine, character,
and history, were screptdously examined in Com-
iel:frees of both houses, and a Kill, exempting
them from taking oaths, and beerittg arms, was
carried with the unanimous consent of rite Bishops;
indced, all opposition to it was abandoned, atter
the final investigatiou of their ; a, d they
were telly sat knowledged to be an (ancient Protest-
ant and Episcopal Church *, The Brethren have
at creseet severed coegregations in Folgland,
Sectlaml, and Ireland ; but their ',umbels are
catty where small, and their ability of support-
ing the.cork of enlightening the Heathen very
elender, If it could be ascertained how much
they hate done, and with how little means, the
world mieht be held in wonder and admiration ;
-gs but they themselves would ascribe the whole to
the idessiug of the Almighty. No inconsiderable
arnportion of these small means has been fur-
visited by rite occasional boanty of Christians of
other denoutinar ions,
When the Moravian Refugees. on Count Zin-
zendort's estate, scarcely amounted to 600 ; when
they had only just found rest from suffering them-
selves, and a-ere beginning to build a church and
batitations, where there had previously been a
(I sett ; their desire to promote the spiritual and
temporal welfare of heathen nations becetne so
pee rind, that in the short period of eight or nine
years they sent Missionaries to Greenland, to•the
Indians fled Negroes ie North end South Ame-
rica, to many of the 'West India Islands, to Lap-
lead, to T,rtary, to Algiers, to Guinea, to the
Cape of Good (Jape, to Ceylon, anti the Nico-
bar Is heed,, to Persia, and ro Egypt.—la 1732,
pitying title I:6.3cry of the Negroes in the West
Indies, two Brethren sailed to the Dattish Island
to St, Thomas ; and such wits their devotedness
to the work, that having hearth that they could
leo have itoercotnae with the stares, unless they
, theinielves became slaves, they went with that
fell purpose, that they might have the opportts-
airy of teaching the poor At; leans t .e way of de-
liverance from Heathen darkness and superstition.
Thrush not called Upon in the event to make this
sacrifice, they had for many years to labour for
their bread under a tropical sun, while every hour
of leisure was employed in iustructing the flea-
theo. The fruits of their zeal and perseverance
in tine rime eppeared ; and in the West
( Danish and British) there are non'
more than tweety-three thousand Negroes joined
to rite Brialtree's• Congregations, and a vast num-
ber have entered into eternal rest, stedfast in the
Christian taint. Not a step behind these in .nr-
dour and self-denial were the first Missionaries
that went to Greenland iii 1733. These were
plain non, who knew only their outlive tongue,
and who, in order to acquire one of the most bar-
heroes dialects on the earth, had to learn the
Denish language first, that they avail
its of the Grammar of Mr. Egide,
Daeisli Missionary thee in Char counny. Now,
the principal part of the population of Greenland
is become Christian ; the state of society is won-
tha fully changed, and instruction is at least as
eniversal in that inhospitable region as in our
owe country. Iu 1734, some Brethern went
among the Italians of North America. Their
labours, their trials, their sufferings, and their
StICCVSS, were extraordinary even in Missionary
History. Many thousands of these roving and
turbulent savages, of all others the most haughty
and untraetable, were converted front the errors
of their ways, and adorned the doctrines of God
their Saviour, both in their lives and by their
deaths. Oo one occasion 96 men, women, and
children, being treacherously made prisouers by
white Banditti, were scalped and toms asked its
cold blood, and, according to the testimony of
their murderers, with their latest breath gave
ailecting evidence of their faith. At another
time eleven Missionaries, male and female, were
burnt alive in their dwellings, or massacred and
thrown hack into t flames in attirrept-
ing to escape, by a troop of Indians in
the French sereice. In the late war 'also,
the Brethren's Settlement at Fairfield, in Canade,
eves plundered arid burnt to the ground by the
A tiler can Artny under General Harrison. A
Missionary such his wife accompanied the Chris-
( i4l) Indians on their flight, who endered for two
seats the most deplorable privation, with unshaken
resigeation, thanktel to God that they had yet the
bread of life, and the means of grace, when they
bad scarcely anyother comfort lett. In 1737 George
Schmidt settled in South Africa, and built himself
a hut, and cleared a piece of ground near Ser-
geant's Raver. Finding it impossible to learn
the hotteutot language, be set resolutely
upon the task of teaching the Barbarians his
o,vri. He semi so won the affections of these
riffle people, that -they became willing scholars,
end meae profijency in learning to read the Scrip-
tures. Jo the course of seven years he baptized

See Journals of the Howe of Commons, and Acts .10
Geo. 11. cap.. 4.4, and 21 Geo. iI. cap. 30.; also a Congratu-
Litory Letter from rclibis'iop Potter to one oft heir Bishops,
on the occasion of his Congyerat .written in. Latin,' with a
translation, in Cranz's Ilaiciv of the United Brethren—
Preface.