NAIN, LABRADOR. SUMMER.--FROM THE WEST.

the words in Latin, "Hoc feci pro te; quod fecis pro me," "I suffered this for thee, what hast thou done for Me?" The appeal came like a voice from heaven to his soul. The salvation of the heathen lay day and night upon his heart. He became forthwith a devoted servant of the Master and an earnest preacher of the Moravian doctrine. The exiles from Bohemia increased, and their settlement received the name of Herrnhut. Zinzendorf became himself a preacher of the Word, was banished from Saxony and went to Berlin, where he was consecrated a bishop. He forthwith set out on a missionary crusade, visited the West Indies and the British colonies, established Moravian missions at Germantown and Bethlehem, which still exist. He died at Herrnhut in 1760. His remains were borne to the grave by thirty-two preachers and missionaries from Holland, England, Ireland, North America and Greenland.

On their visit to America John and Charles Wesley came under the influence of the Moravians. It was in a Moravian service in Fetter Lane, London, that John Wesley felt his heart strangely warmed by the reading and comments on Paul's Letter to the Galatians.* He afterwards visited Zinzendorf at Herrnhut and translated many of his hymns. Some of these are still favorites, notably

India Islands, Surinam, South Africa, Thibet and Australia. In 1882 the 150th anniversary of Moravian missions was appropriately celebrated at Herrnhut. At that date they had sent out 2,212 missionaries, of whom 604 were then alive. That number has since been greatly increased.

The Labrador mission was founded about a hundred and seventy years ago. The Eskimo were then savages and heathen, and the first missionary, Johannes, or John, Erhardt, was murdered. Others volunteered to take his place. The first mission station at Nain was founded. Since then the mission has spread north and south till it has seven mission stations, with sixteen missionaries. Through their agency every Eskimo on the Labrador coast has been brought under Gospel influences.

For nearly a hundred years a mission ship, the "Harmony," five in succession, has made an annual visit from London to these ice-bound coasts.

It is the only ship which many of the Eskimo have ever seen. For over fifty years no serious harm has happened it.

The following is a more detailed account, by the Rev. Dr. Rose, of these remarkable people :

The Moravian Church is an object lesson to all Protestant Christianity in missionary zeal and liberality. Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop is authority for the statement that the Moravians "have one missionary out of every sixty of their members." The other Churches of the United Kingdom have but one missionary out of every five thousand. Were Great Britain equally zealous and sacrificing she would have two hundred thousand toilers in the regions beyond, and spend yearly £20,000,000 in the world's evangelization, instead of the pittance of £1,500,000 which she now contributes.

Surely a Church which sets so illustrious an example to all other

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organic unit throughout the world." Presbyterio-Episcopal in its constitution, the affairs of the Church are conducted by boards, while the body as a whole is governed by a General Synod, meeting, at intervals of about ten years, in Herrnhut. The religious life of the Church is said by those who know it well to realize, in a good measure, the true conception of primitive Christianity." Renouncing worldly vanities, they nevertheless escape the errors of asceticism. The commonplace duties and labors of life are made to contribute to spiritual refreshment. The hidden life is nourished by sacred. song, hymns being provided for the various experience of life, as "cradle hymns, hymns for travelling, and, before the distaff became obsolete, spinning hymns."

ses." The union had not been reached without a knowledge of the bitterness of persecution; it was followed by a "trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover, of bonds and imprisonments: they wandered in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth," thus earning for themselves the name of " Pitmen or "Burrowers."

We may not linger over the story of the baptism of fire which visited these true-hearted Christians in the days of the denomination's infancy. It is enough to say, that after various and fierce trials, in consequence of, which "public Protestantism was extinguished," the small remnant feeding their faith upon the doctrines and promises of the blessed Book, which was hidden perchance "in a cellar, in a hole in the wall, in a hollow log, or in a space beneath the dogkennel," and ministered to by pastors who, at the risk of their own lives and the lives of their congregations, preached the truth as it is in Jesus, led by by Christian David, himself a convert from Roman Catholicism, found a haven upon the estate of