Periodical Accounts Relating to the Missions of the Church of the United Brethren Established Among the Heathen Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...to Sr. Rebecca Schnall of Bethlehem, on the 13th of September, and on the 28th of the same month set out with lis wife for that island. 2. Br. C. R. Moehne, of Sareptn, whose parents were employed for a number of years as Missionaries in Greenland, has been appointed to the service ot the Mission in the island of Antigua. III. Celeanation or The Centenaay Jurilee At Durlin.--(From a Correspondent.)--The solemnities of this festal day were commenced by a morning-service at the chapel of the United Brethren in Bishop-street. A discourse was delivered by the minister, Br. R. Grimes, on the text of the day; in which a view was taken of the Brethren's endeavours to obey the command, Go ye, and teach all nations, Src.; and the labours of their fellow Christians of other denominations, in furtherance of the same blessed object, were successively referred to. The Missionaries, their converts, and the heathen world in general were also commended in fervent prayer to the Divine blessing and favour. At 5 p. m. we assembled again to a solemn love-feast, which was attended by a numerous company of Brethren aud friends. On this occasion, an outline was given of the history of our Missions, both of those that have been successful, and those that had failed of the desired effect, noticing briefly the causes of their failure. The Rev. Dr. Hinds, chaplain to his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, then delivered a most encouraging address, in which he described the beneficial effects of our Missionary labours among the negroes, of which he had been an eye-witness in the course of his own Missionary service in Barbadoes. He also stated, as a proof of the estimation in which they were held by the black and white population, that at a time when insurrectionary movements distracted ...