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Patron and patriarch of this period was a Saxon count, Nicholas von Zinzendorf, on whose estate a group of Moravian refugees settled in 1722. They established a community called Herrnhut-the place God will guard-and here developed some of the customs that are peculiar to the Moravians today, such as reviving the early Christian agape, or love feast, which, unlike Communion, is a real meal shared in mutual devotion...
...world; today there are three times as many Moravians in the foreign mission churches as there are in the home churches. Moravians founded a city in Pennsylvania and called it Bethlehem (1740). Winston-Salem, N.C. was started by the Moravians in 1766. All such Moravian settlements were patterned after Herrnhut-all land and commercial enterprise was owned by the church; single men, single women and widows were housed apart. Last week the 55,000 U.S. Moravians (world membership: 300,000) celebrated in decorum and hope, gathered to commemorate their long history with long speeches, their Protestant fervor with prayer. President...
...Anglican world. Presiding Bishop Perry of the U. S. Episcopal Church and Presbyterian Moderator McDowell are not international figures. But Dr. John Raleigh Mott is. For his work as an organizer and inspirational leader in foreign missions he is famed from the Oasis of Helwan in Egypt to Herrnhut in Germany. As an active Y. M. C. A. man his influence has been felt from Finland to Jerusalem. Called "this Ulysses of modern missionaries" by the Bishop of Ely, Dr. Mott needs a good big book to move around in. Such a biography was published last month, a respectful "official...
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