Two Moravian Missionarys

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"In 1732 he (David Nitschmann)went to the West Indies as one of the first two foreign missionaries of the Moravian church, who declared their readiness to sell themselves as slaves if there should be no other way of reaching the negroes."

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[puritan]

Thank you for your comments Ikissjesus

[puritan]

Sensbach, a professor of history at the University of Florida, offers a fascinating study of a woman and a religious revival in the 18th century. His heroine is Rebecca Protten, a freed slave living and working in the Dutch colony of St. Thomas. Born around 1718, Rebecca was freed by her master, for reasons the historical sources do not reveal, sometime after 1730. Always religiously inclined, her ...

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[Lachance8]

Absolutely wonderful touching video!!!

[puritan]

Maybe, at the time they thought that someone might not come back.

Maybe the owner of the plantation himself, might have gotten saved. I didn't find that in the readings, but we don't know.. Not all the evidence can be found in just a few references. What I am saying is that you might be making a too quick judgment on this based on so little. Yes, they came back, But in coming back, doesn't change the story one bit. He said again, that they didn't know if they would be able to come back.

[haddonjames]

Hey, like I said, it's a great example of faith, that doesn't need the embellishments. Listen to it again....the guys never 'sold' themselves into slavery, they did come back and lived long lives..the story is that they never saw their families and friends again....i'll send you some links about the two guys.

[puritan]

I don't think that he said they never came back, but that they left, thinking that they will not be coming back, sellling themselves into slavery. How could they have known what would be their future, but one road that they were determined to take was the Gospel Highway to reaching those lost slaves for Christ.

[ikissjesus]

當船從德國漢堡市的河邊離開時，船離開了碼頭，並準備向北海的方­向駛去。有其他的摩拉維亞教徒，他們從Herrnhut(另一個­城市)來給這二位年輕人送行。這二位年輕人的年紀只有20初頭，­而他們將永遠不會回家。這並不是一個4年的宣教計畫，因為他們已­把自己終身賣成奴隸，好讓那個島上可以有基督徒傳福音給其他的奴­隸。

[ikissjesus]

有3,000名奴隸從非洲的叢林被帶到一個在大西洋的島上，他們­將在那裡生活，也將在那裡死去，而且將不會聽到基督。

這二位年輕的摩拉維亞教徒聽到這件事。於是，他們就把自己賣給那­位英國殖民者，並用錢來買船票到那個島上，因為那個英國人連把他­們送到那個島上的錢都不願意出。

[ikissjesus]

這英國人曾說：「沒有任何傳道人或神職人員能夠駐留在這個島上。­如果有神職人員遭受海難而來到這島上，我們就會把他隔離在一個屋­子裡，直到他必須離開。但是，他永遠不能跟我們當中的任何人傳講­神的事情，因為我已經受夠了。」

[ikissjesus]

Chinese translation as below:

二個摩拉維亞教徒的宣教士

作者：派瑞．雷漢德牧師(Paris Reidhead)

譯者：馬強盛／顏美娟夫婦

曾有二位年輕的摩拉維亞教徒(Moravian)。他們聽說有一­個英國人，他擁有在西印度群島中的一個島嶼，其上有2,000到­3,000名奴隸，而這英國人是位無神論者。

[emcedusia]

wow.awsome... thx for uploading it!