The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . Missionary Preaching to ths Indians. THE MORAVIANS. A L L E D usually by the name of Moravians arethe class of Christians of whom we have now towrite, because they first arose as a distinctchurch in Moravia, and in Europe they are fre-quently styled Hernhutters, from one of theirfirst settlements in Hernhut; they however,describe themselves, Unit as Fratrem, that isUnited Brethren. In their History, as given by Crantz, theirHisto
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . Missionary Preaching to ths Indians. THE MORAVIANS. A L L E D usually by the name of Moravians arethe class of Christians of whom we have now towrite, because they first arose as a distinctchurch in Moravia, and in Europe they are fre-quently styled Hernhutters, from one of theirfirst settlements in Hernhut; they however,describe themselves, Unit as Fratrem, that isUnited Brethren. In their History, as given by Crantz, theirHistorian, they are distinguished into ancientand modern. The former refers to them beforetheir settlement in Upper Lusatia, in 1772 ; the latter after it. In an address on their behalf to the English Privy Council in 1715,they are called The Reformed Episcopal Churches, first settled inBohemia, and since forced by the persecutions of their enemies to retireinto the greater Poland and Polish Russia. In an address also fromthemselves to the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., theyclaim to have been free for about 700 years from the encroachmentsof the Romish See; and speak of Huss and Jerome of Prague, as
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