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For example, no Moravian minister might marry without the consent of the U.E.C. The U.E.C. submitted his choice to the Lot; and if the Lot decided in the negative, he accepted the decision as the voice of God. In the congregations the same practice prevailed.
Drooping his head into its usual pious attitude, his face assumed its former grave expression, and he was again the sedate, quiet Brother. A Moravian settlement!
From the limited number of chapels and missionaries, it may be inferred that only a portion of the twenty-two thousand can enjoy stated weekly instruction. The superintendent of the Moravian mission stated that their chapels could not accommodate more than one third of their members. Each of the denominations complains of the lack of men and houses.
Next, all members of the Brethren's Church were to prove their claims by producing a certificate, signed by a Moravian Bishop or pastor.
Schwerin is already in Olmutz, for a month past; and towards him, or his neighborhood, the march is to be. We will leave him there, and look westward a little; before going farther into the Moravian Expedition.
That amiable personage strode down the stairs in dignified fashion, greeting the guests with a sonorous: "PAX VOBISCUM!" He could not be induced to stay long, however. He had been perturbed all day on account of the Duchess who now threatened to join the Moravian Brotherhood; she was so annoyed about a little thing which had happened.
For some years he was busily engaged first as an authorized lay evangelist and then as an ordained Moravian minister in preaching and founding religious societies in Cos. He opened his Ulster campaign at Ballymena. At first he was fiercely opposed. As the rebellion of the young Pretender had been only recently quashed, the people were rather suspicious of new comers.
One cannot find in all America sweeter and quainter memorials of a gentle past memorials still consecrated to the gracious work of the present than the churches and other denominational houses in the old Moravian towns of Pennsylvania.
He called himself a "Moravian of the higher order"; and by that phrase he probably meant that he had the Brethren's faith in Christ, but rejected their orthodox theology. He read their monthly magazine, "Nachrichten." He maintained his friendship with Bishop Albertini, and studied his sermons and poems.
Here, then, we have the key to the success which attended the Moravian Missions in all parts of the world. They brought the heathen to the feet of Christ by the spirit of love; they faced every danger and endured every hardship in the cause of their Master, for theirs' was a joyful persuasion.
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