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Show Fell Ci'l of Duty to j Carry Gospel to Heathen Two humble workmen, setting out for un unknown country with Just thirty shillings between them and they changed the face of the world. That is the romance behind our modern foreign missions, which have celebrated their two hundredth anniversary. anni-versary. They date from 1732, when Leonard Dober and DaTld Nltsehmann, two working men. left the Tillage of Herrnhut, in Germany, to preach to the slaves in the West Indies. These pioneer missionaries wert Moravians, and for some time this church was the only one at least, in the Protestant world which regarded preaching to the heathen as a religious reli-gious duty. In the years after 1732 its missionaries went out to take the Gospel message to Eskimos, Red Indians, In-dians, Hottentots, and other primitive peoples, until gradually the other I'rotcstant churches followed the Moravian Mo-ravian example. So, really, it is these two men on a carpenter and the other a potter whom we have to thank for our Protestant Prot-estant foreign missions. London Answers. |