MORAVIAN PUBLICATION OFFICE,

32, FETTER LANE, E.C.

ALSO AT THE BRETHREN'S CONGREGATIONS AND CHAPELS IN GREAT BRITAIN

AND IRELAND.

1895.

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CONTENTS.

I. Beginning of the Building of Herrnhut by //

the first Emigrants of Moravia. For June

the 17th.

II. The laying of the Foundation Stone of the

first Meeting Hall and Academy at Herrn- 4

hut. For May the 12th.

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III. The Renewal of the Brethren's Church, 1727.7

Appendix A.B.C. For August the 13th.

IV. The great awakening among the Children at

Herrnhut. For August the 17th.

V. Beginning of the Hourly Intercession. For /

August the 27th.

VI. First Mission of the Brethren to the Heathen, 13

viz., the Negroes in Saint Thomas.

August the 21st.

For

VII. Beginning of the Mission among the Heathen 16

in Greenland. For January the 19th.

VIII. Powerful experience in the Unity of the

Brethren, that Jesus is the Chief Shepherd

and Head of His Church. For September

the 16th, and November the 13th.

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PREFACE.

THE

HE following eight Narratives, and their Appendices, contain historical accounts of those events which have given rise to the memorial days of the renewed Church of the Brethren. They are in close connection with the Narratives published in 1821, comprising the account of those two memorial days which have a reference to the history of the ancient Church of the Brethren; and this connection is necessarily the closer since none other but the descendants and survivors of that oppressed Church (which had been completely destroyed in those regions where it existed originally) commenced in the year 1722 the building of Herrnhut, the firstling of all our Congregation places. Having found in that