A History of Moravian Missions

by J. E. Hutton

Publisher:

Moravian Publication Office

, 1922

Overview

A History of Moravian Missions, J. E. Hutton’s follow-up to A History of the Moravian Church, chronicles the birth of the modern mission movement, which can be traced back to Count Zinzendorf—the “father of modern missions.” Beginning in 1700 with the first Moravian missionaries.

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Key Features

• Provides extensive history of the Moravian mission from 1700 to the twentieth century
• Includes an epilogue by bishop Arthur Ward
• Contains four separate parts

Contents

• The Eighteenth Century Pioneers, 1700–1800
  • The Dreamer
  • The Voice in the Night
  • The Danish West Indies
  • Greenland
  • The North American Indians
  • The South American Indians
  • The Bush Negroes of Surinam
  • South Africa: The Hottentots
  • Labrador
  • The Jews
  • The Flying Scouts
  • Zinzendorf as Missionary Leader
  • The Count’s Successors
• The Builders, 1800–1914
  • Jamaica: Or West Indies; Western Province
  • The West Indies; Eastern Province
  • Greenland
  • The North American Indians
  • Surinam
  • South Africa, West; Of the Hottentots
  • South Africa East; Or the Kaffirs
  • Labrador
• The Modern Advance, 1848–1914
  • Nicaragua
  • Victoria
  • Western Tibet
  • The Leper Home at Jerusalem
  • Demerara
  • Alaska
  • California
  • North Queensland
  • East Central Africa: Nyassa
  • East Central Africa: Unyamwezi
• Methods, Measures and Ideals
  • The System of Government
  • The Work of the Synods
  • The Synod of 1914; Or, Moravian Missionary Ideals

Top Highlights

“On Zinzendorf these disasters had a strange effect. Instead of being cast down or dismayed, he composed a noble hymn in the Brethren’s honour;† other Brethren followed without a tremor; and after three more had died—including Gottlieb Israel—the first station, Friedensthal (1755), was founded.” (Page 48)

“First, they resolved to further Missions; secondly, they would give their attention to despised and neglected races; and thirdly, if they could not go themselves, they would trust in God to find recruits.” (Page 7)

“‘We resolved,’ he says, ‘to do all in our power for the conversion of the heathen, especially for those for whom no one else cared, and by means of men whom God, we believed, would provide.’” (Page 7)

“He had studied Egede’s methods; he could see why Egede had failed; he believed that if the Brethren tried a new method they would succeed; and in a letter to a friend in England he explained what that method was, and thereby made his first contribution to the Science of Foreign Missions. In that letter* we find the germ of all his later ideas. ‘You are not,’ he wrote, ‘to aim at the conversion of whole nations: you must simply look for seekers after the truth who, like the Ethiopian eunuch, seem ready to welcome the Gospel. Second, you must go straight to the point and tell them about the life and death of Christ. Third, you must not stand aloof from the heathen, but humble yourself, mix with them, treat them as Brethren, and pray with them and for them.’” (Pages 20–21)

“The man was Count Zinzendorf, the renewer of the Moravian Church, and described by a modern writer as the ‘Father of Modern Missions.’” (Page 3)

Product Details

• Title: A History of Moravian Missions
• Author: J. E. Hutton
• Publisher: Moravian Publication Office
• Publication Date: 1923
• Pages: 550

About J. E. Hutton

J. E. Hutton (1868–1937) was an English Moravian minister and author. He pastored the Fairfield Moravian Church from 1922 to 1934.