The frankness and earnestness of the simple Moravians had won respect with the many tribes of Pennsylvania Indians, and they lived without incident until 1755.

On June 20, 1775 the Moravians in their diary, noted that James Parke Farley had located on his plantation on the Dan River, " 100 negroes whom he bought from Antigua.

After its completion, word came that Whitefield had returned to Pennsylvania, bristling and angered by theological disputes with certain Moravians, particularly on the issue of predestination.

There, however, the authorities told him that the money would go back to the Moravians — but he had shown his loyalty to Ferdinand, the future Emperor.

Moravians also had a tradition of secular art music that included the famed composer Johann Friedrich Peter, who was a German born in Holland who emigrated to Bethlehem in 1770.

Moravians had accepted the hereditary right of the Austrian Habsburgs to rule and thus escaped the intense struggle between native estates and the Habsburg monarchy that was to characterize Bohemian history.

Moravians also had a tradition of secular art music that included the famed composer Johann Friedrich Peter, who was a German born in Holland who emigrated to Bethlehem in 1770.

The Moravians had considered schools secondary in importance only to churches.

It had a mixed population, Hungarians, Serbs, Germans and Moravians.

Among his observations of the incident was that " one Nathan Rollins & brother had had a father & uncle killed took the lead in murdering the Indians, ...& Nathan Rollins had tomahawked nineteen of the poor Moravians, & after it was over he sat down & cried, & said it was no satisfaction for the loss of his father & uncle after all ".

Menumorut's name ( as he was called by the Hungarians because he had concubines ) is composed of two parts: its first part ( menu ) may have originated either from the Hungarian word for stallion ( as the anonymous writer of the Gesta suggests ) or from the Bulgar-Turkic word meaning “ great ” ( men ); his name ’ s second part ( morut ) is the ancient Hungarian name of the Moravians.

The Presbyterians and Methodists would have accepted the Historic Episcopate, but since the Moravians already had this, they would have changed nothing.

Although the Moravians managed to reach the safety of the fort, they had to abandon 644 fully equipped horses in the narrows.

A letter written by the margrave soon announced that the legates were returning from Svatopluk and the Moravians who had agreed " to give themselves in friendship ".

Pribina, the Slavic dux of Lower Pannonia died fighting the Moravians in 861 which suggests that Carloman also had conceded this province to Rastislav.

As the Byzantine missionaries enjoyed Rastislav's protection, Louis the German dispatched Bishop Solomon of Constance to Rome where he described how the diocese of Passau had been " fragmented and brought to ruin " by the defection of the Moravians.

The Moravians were a religious group of German origin who had settled here in 1746.

Although Innu have been only in Sheshatshiu since fur trading posts were established by the Hudson's Bay Company in Northwest River in the mid-1700s and only in Davis Inlet / Natuashish since the Moravians set up along the Inuit Coast in 1771, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams struck a deal on September 26, 2008, with Labrador's Innu to permit construction of a hydroelectric megaproject to proceed on the proposed Lower Churchill site.

Hope Township is one of the earliest planned communities in the United States, having been established by German Moravians in 1769.

Having been released due to the Moravians ' rebellion against the Franks, Svatopluk joined the rebels and defeated the invaders.

Today, 7 of every 10 Moravians are in a former mission field and belong to a race other than Caucasian.

In 1761, missionaries from the German Moravians ( also known as the Renewed Church of the United Brethren ), set out from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to set up a mission in the Tuscarawas Valley.

On the edge of this lake was an Indian village where the Moravians early established a mission that did great work among the Indians.

It was established as a mission to the Lenape by Moravians from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, lower on the Lehigh River.

On Christmas Eve in 1741, David Nitschmann and Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, leading a small group of Moravians, founded the mission community of Bethlehem along the banks of the Monocacy Creek by the Lehigh River in the colony of Pennsylvania.

The Moravians ministered to regional Lenape Native Americans through their mission in the area, as well as further east in the New York colony.

A third group of Lenape, many of them converted Christian Munsees, lived in several mission villages run by Moravians.

They were forced by the Electoral Saxon government to emigrate to Pennsylvania, and Zinzendorf sent 2 Moravians to accompany them in 1734 – 35, in order to scout out the mission possibilities in America.

In 1801 the Moravians established a mission to the Cherokee Nation in present day Murray County Georgia that remained until the forced removal of the Cherokees to Oklahoma, and remained active there through the end of the American Civil War in 1865.

Believing that Svatopluk was dead, the Moravians selected another member of their ruling family named Slavomír and made him their ruler.

It is one of the relatively few Sundays some Reformed denominations may offer the communion meal, and is one of the days of the year specially appointed among Moravians for the celebration of their Love Feasts.

In the 1980s there were discussions in England by which an agreement was created that would have created full communion between the Moravians, Presbyterians, Methodists, and the Church of England.

The area was originally settled by members of the Moravian Church in 1753, and Moravians owned the waterfall for many years ( the waterfall is named after the church ).

" The differences between the two approaches led to permanent impasse between Lutherans and Moravians, especially after a December 1742 meeting in Philadelphia.

Aribo never reconciled with Arnulf after the Wilhelimner War and his contacts with the Moravians were kept secure.

Moravians hold a Lovefeast on Good Friday as they receive Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday.

Located adjacent to the Moravian Church on of land, Linden Hall School was founded by the Moravians in 1746, a decade before the borough was incorporated.

Prior to the arrival of the Moravians, there was no distinct town, but several families farmed on Jenny Jump Mountain, to the south of Hope, in surrounding area and on John Samuel Green, Jr .’ s farm in the center of what is now the Village.

Throughout the 1760s, Moravians from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania traveled through this area on their way to New England to establish new communities.

Of Protestant fellowships, perhaps the Holy Week services ( Passion Week ) of the Moravian Church are the most extensive, as the Congregation follows the life of Christ through His final week in daily services dedicated to readings from a harmony of the Gospel stories, responding to the actions in hymns, prayers and litanies, beginning on the eve of Palm Sunday and culminating in the " Easter Morning " or Easter Sunrise service begun by the Moravians in 1732.

After the end of World War II, and following the Beneš decrees, these German speaking Moravians were evicted ; it is estimated that hundreds died on the arduous trek to Austria.

As such, diverse groups such as Adventists, Anabaptists, Baptists, Charismatics, Congregationalists, Evangelicals, Holiness churches, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Reformed, and Unitarians ( depending on one's classification scheme ) are all a part of the same family, and with further doctrinal variations within each group.

) Although there was influence by Pietism and the Moravians on the founders of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, there is no direct organizational link.

This sentimental, anti-intellectual form of pietism is seen in the thought and teaching of Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravians ; but more intellectually rigorous forms of pietism are seen in the teachings of John Wesley, which were themselves influenced by Zinzendorf, and in the teachings of American preachers Jonathan Edwards, who restored to pietism Gerson's focus on obedience and borrowed from early church teachers Origen and Gregory of Nyssa the notion that humans yearn for God, and John Woolman, who combined a mystical view of the world with a deep concern for social issues ; like Wesley, Woolman was influenced by Jakob Boehme, William Law and The Imitation of Christ.

In the papers collection Hlasowé o potřebě jednoty spisowného jazyka pro Čechy, Morawany a Slowáky (" Voices on the necessity of a united standard language for the Bohemians, Moravians and Slovaks ") published by Ján Kollár in 1846, Šafárik moderately criticized Ľudovít Štúr's introduction of a new Slovak standard language ( 1843 ) that replaced the previously used Lutheran standard which was closer to the Czech language ( the Slovak Catholics used a different standard ).

Talbot published single sermons ( 1691 – 1717 ), his speech in the Lords on the Sacheverell case ( 1710 ), two charges ( 1712 – 17 ), and a circular to the Salisbury clergy directing collections for Moravians ( 1716 ).