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50 Mission Monographs.John Wesley wanted the Methodists to occupy in him to clear np our minds in this important af-England—to be, in shoirt, a merely spiritual com- fair, and to lead us in the right way. Thereuponmunity—a company of pietists—an association of our hearts were filledwith uncommon joy, andgood people hving together for their own edifica- we omitted no longer to lay our desire before thetion and that of their neighbors. But as they in- congregation in writing, with perfect resignationcreased in numbers they could not help organiz- as to which tribe of heathen our allotment shoulding, and in the end they became, insensibly be, though we felt the strongest leanings to tbealmost, a distinct denomination, Count Zinzen- Greenlanders."dort being one of their earliest bishops.Hltimately it was resolved to send a missionI have referred to Wesley, It may give an from Herrnhut to Greenland ; and the firstidea of the character of the Mora.vians at the agents designated to the work were the youngoutset, if I quote the impression which his firstin- man whose words I have just quoted and a cousinterview with them made upon his mind. He met of his own—their names being respectivelysome of them in 1736, and thus wrote to his Matthew and Christian Stach, The leader ofbrother J "God has given me at length the the Moravian band, however,' from the east—desire of my heart I am with a Church whose Christian David—resolved to accompany themconversation is in heaven "and see them fairly settled in the fieldthey wereBut how came the Moravians to engage in for- to occupy.eign missions ? It was in this way. Their preparations were easily made. " WeIn the year 1731 Zinzendorf was sent by the had nothing," they tell ns, "butthe clothing onKing of Saxony to Denmark to be present at the our backs ; but we had been nsed to make a shiftmarriage ot the King of that country ; and while for ourselves, and did not trouble our heads aboutthere he »w and conversed with two Eskimos how we were to get to Greenland, or how wefrom Greenland and a negro from the West In- were to live when we got there."dies. They set out for Denmark on January 11,What he heard produced a deep impression on 1733, and arrived in course of tune at Copenhismind and imagination; and, when he returned hagen, wbich was the Antioch of those days—to Herrnhut and told the story to his co-religion- the place whence the successors of the apostlesists there, an inextinguishable fire was kindled in set-out on their missions to convert the world.their bosoms hkewise.But they did not meet irom the Danish Chris" I was then at work," writes one ofthose who tians the hearty reception they had anticipated.were present—"I was then at work with Fred- A mission to Greenland had been maintamed forerick Boenish on the burying-ground called the a number of years, but little success bad attendedHutberg. He was the firstperson that I made it, and it was to be abandoned. But tbe friendsacquainted with what was passing in my mind, from Herrnhut were not easily daunted. Tbeyand I found that he was actuated by the same persevered in their endeavors to re-awaken tbedesire as I had to promote the salvation of the interest, and tbey succeeded ; aud about the beheathen.. . As we were both of one mind, ginning of the month of June tbe little band ofand confidently believed that our. Saviour's pioneers landed at the mouth of Ball's-Riverpromisewould be verified in us, ' If two or three tbe only river that Greenland is known to possess.shall agree on earth as touching anything that The country which we know so well by namethey shall ask,' we retired to the wood near at from the missionary hymn we so often sing ishand, and kneeled down before him and begged four times the size of the present Germam Em-