of the i)e;-ple, ami ! iiersoiis were reporieil as having,
been brou-hl, iiiulei- reliL;ioiis instruction, allhougli it is admitted that very few of them conh! 1h> n-arded as con- verts to the faith of the Gosj.el. The Danish mission to Greenland was nllimately translened to the 'United Brethren.' Here should be mentioned the mission to Lapland {q. v.).
'■^United JJrethren's Missions [see Moravians]. — The mis- sionary spirit of the Moravian Church manifested itself at an early period after the esiablishmenf of the settlement at Herrnhut. When I'alsclv aciiiscd, and declared an ex- ile from Germanv. conni, Zinz.aidoil -.ive a reply which indicated the spirit bv which he was actuated, and the gen- ius of the people with whom he had cast in his lot. _ He said: 'Now we must collect a congrpgatic)ii of pilgrims, and train laborers to go fcn-th into all the world, and i)reach Christ and his salvation to every creature.' He was led to this by a visit made to the Danish capital in 1731. When the new colony only numbered about COO persons, all of whom were poor exiles, and when just beginning to build a church for their own accommodation in what had lately been a wilderness, they resolved to labor for the conversion of the heathen world. Within ten years from that date, 1732, they sent missionaries to St. Thomas and St. Croix, in the West Indies ; to the Indians in North and South America ; to Lapland, Tartarv, Algiers, West- ern Africa, the Cape or(;ood Hope, and t'eylon. Abont> the rear l^iU an association was formed in Loudon, which raised about iWrno i)er tinnum in aid of Moravian mis- sions, and this i)roveil a Lrieat help to the canse. Subse- quently the Uniteil Brethren sent out agents to other West India islands, including Jamaica, Tobago, Anti.sjua, Barbadoes, and St. Christopher's ; to South America, Lab- rador, Greenland, Egypt, Persia, and India. The first mis- sions of the Mortivian Brethren were not very snocessfnl, but their agents persevered amid numeroiis ditticnlties,
privations, and siilTerin-s, to which iIh ' i; -d i n well
trained by the painlul exi)erieiice ol' lli :i ' Uisto-
rv, and the ultimate result has been \ cr, u, i; i . . i.'. _ " '' Statistics of Moravian Mis.^ions.—A leceiit publication says: 'The Moravian mission statistics for IhiO show 89 stations; 313 missionary agents; 1041 native assistants and overseers; 20,571 communicants; 16,528 non-com-
MISSIONS
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municants under regular instruction ; 10,304 candidates, " new people," etc , and 23,2SS baptized ciiildren ; making a total i)f (;s,V51. The receipts have been X-i'-'U fioiii mem- bers of the I'.rellu-cnV (•oii-n'L'.iiicjiis : X'.t;-J4 froin fiicnds of other deiiDiniiialions ; A-ir.75 tVum the IJi-elhrcn's scitie- ty in PennsvlvMiiia, and 1,'41:>T from k-'.'aties, endowments, etc.; makin"g a total of X2(i,S44. In Surinam there are 24,1SC under instniclion, 12,328 in Jamaica, and smaller numbers in other i)arts of the West Indies, in South Afri- ca, South America, Greenland, and Labrador.'
''Setherlainls Mi.sxivnani Society.— This institution was formed at Kolterdam in 1796, mainly through the influ- ence of Dr.Vanderkemp. Before the eccentric doctor em- barked for his distant sphere of labor in South Africa, to which he had been appointed by the London Missionary •Society, he visited Rotterdam to take leave of his friends, and while there he found leisure to publish a Dntch ver- sion of an earnest address which bad emanated from the London Sucicty, the r('>ull of wliicli was the organization of the Nclhi'iiaiids Missionary Society. For some time the tinancial aid ofiV red to the enter))iise was very slen- der, and no immediate steps were taken towanis coin- nienciug operations. This interval was widely < ini>lciyiil bv the directors in endeavoring to leaven ilic JiiiK li mind with the true missionary si)int. When the tiiii(N wcie available, and they contetn])lated entering ujion foi<vgn lields of labor, they were deterred from doing so IVoni the loss of most of" the Dutch colonies, whicli had fallen into the hands of France dniinir the war. 'Die dinrinrs therefore made an arranjeincnt \\ itli the I.mimImh Mi- -i ,ii- nry Society to sui)ply men aini nie.in- i^i- . mi \ in^ on the work in Africa and 'India uii(hT ilieir .insphc- and n:an- agement. In this way they tiained and sent out several excellent missionaries to the Cape ollJood Hojie and the East, where their knowlechjc of the Dulch laiiLniaL'e was at once available for eanyim: on the work. In l^u Hol- land rose again to indiiJ^inleni e. :ind recoveied its colo- nies, when the Nelht tIhhIs ^.H hiv toidv immediate ad- vantage of the I'avorahh' rleneje in national aflairs. and sent out live young mi.--i.innriis IV.im their seminary. on their own account, to enter favorable openings which presented themsehes in the Eastern Archipelago among the Malays. Other agents followed from year to year, and that part of the world was largely and well occupied by the societj'. In 1S20 two missi<inaries weie sent out to India, and" a few years afterwards they were followed by Dr. Gut/laft", who, tinding a number of Chinese at Rio- sew, his appointed sialinii, was ultimately induced to ex- lend his lalxiis to the -Celeslial Emp.ire."' A missien was also estahli-hed at Siiiinam, in Dulch Gui:in:\, and the Ketherlands SMciriy was able to rei'ort 17 stations and I'.t missionarii's un<lei' their direction, with a goodly iminber of native converts to the faith of the (iosjicl united in Church fellowship.