The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-15
Duty Moro Than Promotion.

hem, among the Lehigh hills in Penn
sylvania, are to be found some of the
most singular buildings in this country.
They are of stone, built, apparently,
to lastfor centuries, with great buttress-
es supporting their massive walls.
They were erected by the Moravians,
who came as missionaries to the Indians
in the beginning of the last century,
and formed common households, q
Sister and Brother House for the un-
married, and Gemei7a Haas for hus-
bands and wives.
A few of the aged sisters fingered
here until q year or two ago; some of
them had entered these houses as
children, and died in them, living for
seventy years in the same quaint little
room, and knowing little of the world
beyond the quadrangle of dower-beds
outside.
There is no more inspiring record of
heroism in the history of this country
than the lives of these early Moravians
who left their homes in Europe and
settled in this wilderness, threatened
daily with rapine and murder, to teach
the gospel to the Indians.
The most remarkable, perhaps, was
that of David Zeisberger, whose parents
emigrated to Georgia and left him to
be educated, boy of 8, with the breth-
rem at Hernnhut. The brethrens rule
was one of iron. David, finding his
condition intolerable, came to this
country.
After many curious adventures he
found his parents and came with them
to Bethlehem.
At length he was ordered by the
church to return to Europe as one of
the suite of Count Zinzendorf.
It was esteemed great promotion,
but Zinzendorf found the boy in tears
when the ship had set sail.
why do you wish to stay, David?"
he said.
II want to be converted to God, and
to serve Him among the Indians was
the answer, strange enough from boy.
It is the will of God," said the
Moravlans. The Count ordered the
ship to cast anchor, and Zeisberger was
sent back.
For seventy years he preached the
gospel to the red with the fervor, the
zeal and the success of messenger
sent by God.
He died at 81. We know of no more
striking picture in our history than
that of the old man dying. surrounded
by the Indians whom he had converted,
singing the hymns of triumph which
he had written for them.
Choice Sentences.
Faith.-Faith is the earnest pressing
of the soul toward God.
Tiaakeriag.-A worldly man is a man
not mended; a religious man is often
man spoiled in mending.
Christ and Solvation-When Christ
spoke of "salvation He was Himself
the salvation of which He spake.
ForgeDa1l,aess Of Christ.-To how
many houses must Christ invite him
self, if He is ever to be guest therein?
Need.-Sometimes what we have need
OF from God we do not even wish for;
but sometimes what we greatly wish for
we dare not expect.
Bible Teaching.-The Bible is not
prlm, but it is powerful; and the nat
uralness and reality of its incidents
greatly contribute to its power.
E'edeaUor.-Take trouble to win q
blessing harder for you to get than for
others, and you will have one bestowed
on you better than you sought for.
Publican and Pharisee-The pub
lican knows that he is sinner; the
pharisee only knows that he was one,
and does not know that he is q worse
one than even once he was.
Honesty of P1rpose.-People that
know what they want, and will take
course that is plainly natural and right,
get allowance, and sometimes respect
and sometimes even help, from those
who, at first, were displeased with and
opposed them.