VII. The Link between the Ancient and Modern Churches of the United Brethren formed by the Lives and Labors of the Bishops Comenius and Jablonsky (his grandson). 52 Works. VIII. The Life and Writings of Count Zinzendorf. 120 Works. IX. Opponents and Detractors of Zinzendorf and the Brethren, with Occasional Replies to them. 163 Works. X. The Renewed Church of the Brethren, its History, Missions, Doctrines, Discipline, etc. 285 Works. 22 Works. Missions. XI. Protestant Exodus from Salzburg in 1731-2. 20 Works. XII. Books not necessarily connected with the Brethren's History: Biblical Literature. 22 Works. Devotional. 9 Works. Ecclesiastical History and Controversy. 52 Works. History, Biography etc. 30. MS. Catalogue of the Moravian Library Collected by the late Daniel Benham, Esq., of London, England. I Work. I am indebted to Prof. H. A. Jacobson for information in regard to the Malin Library. EVENTS AT NAZARETH IN THE YEAR 1800. THE placid and retired life, peculiar to the Moravian hamlet, was not without admirers, and among its visitors whose minds and feelings responded to a calm and genial state of society, some distinguished personages have been recorded. Small and isolated as the little village was, during the close of the last and beginning of the present century, a stray traveler was not an unfrequent guest. Before the time we are now dwelling upon, Lord Montague, the Governor of South Carolina, accompanied by his lady, came and spent the night at the Rose Inn; at another time, the Governor of the Province with his suite sojourned here, upon a hunting expedition in the Blue Mountains. During the War of Independence, Baron de Kalb made a special detour in order to reach Nazareth, and his impressions of this visit have been read to the Moravian Historical Society, from a MS. translated from the French language. Another instance of the strong attraction these quiet homes presented is offered us in the circumstance of Timothy Pickering's desire to become a resident of Nazareth. This event occurred in the year 1800. Col. Pickering was one of the most eminent and patriotic statesmen of that day. He was born in Massachusetts, in 1745, and at an early age was promoted to various useful offices in that State, previous to the American Revolution. After having served in the army under General Washington, and passed through long cam 26 paigns, he was chosen Secretary of State, in the year 1795, and, at the close of that year, was transferred to the office of Secretary of War, in which he remained until the event we are recording took place. A tract of land in the Wyoming Valley had come into his possession after his retirement from office, and he found it expedient to remove thither with the view of improving it, and making his personal residence in that region of Pennsylvania. While preparations were being made for his future withdrawal from public life, he chose this little Moravian village as a place of temporary seclusion. After his arrival at Bethlehem, he was escorted to Nazareth by the Brethren John Ettwein and William Henry, and his proposition to be entered as a denizen of the place together with his family, was duly laid before the Elders' Conference. He desired his three sons to enter Nazareth Hall, and pass through the system of training and education pursued in the schools of the Church. He had fixed upon two years as the time of his stay in Nazareth, and he selected as his temporary home, in the event of a favorable reception, the house occupied by the widow Dealing, which stood next but one to the Brethren's House. This house is a permanent stone mansion, and is now more than a century old. Its structure conforms to the general style of building of those days, being of massive blue limestone, and it strikes you it might be able to battle with the elements for centuries. As an antiquarian, I regret that its present proprietor has been induced by the influences of the day and the ruling love of innovation, to modify his front door, which was one of those double- or hatch-doors, of the Elizabethan period, occasionally commemorated by Shakespeare and other writers-and in place of this ancient and classical door, he now prides himself in having a front entrance in conformity with that of all the men of But if that precious old door is gone, modern times. (and scores of other hatch-doors in Nazareth and our other villages throughout the land have shared the same fate,) that remarkable house, remarkable because selected as the abiding place of such an eminent man, stands there intact in other respects, and long may it remain undisturbed by the hand of the modern architect. The Elders' Conference took the matter in hand and deliberated on it. It was long before the age of photography that the transaction took place, otherwise there would have been a possibility of transmitting to posterity the interesting picture of the little but august Elders' Conference of Nazareth weighing and reasoning upon the important matter of receiving a great retired statesman into the midst of their exclusive and primitive family, and granting a request for entrance that was made with all due humility. But the difficulties of admitting a stranger of his celebrity and of alien creed, the possible influences his and his family's presence might entail, influences from which the Moravians of that day endeavored to keep aloof, swayed their minds in favor of a general opposition to the proposal placed before them and the question was finally decided in the negative. Col. Pickering, on being informed of this decision, and of the reasons given for it by the body of Elders, expressed his entire acquiescence, and he evinced no displeasure in being refused admittance into Nazareth. seemed to fully comprehend the motives the Brethren gave in laying restrictions upon the entrance of strangers into the place, and he withdrew his request with the best of feelings towards the good people, whose wide-spread reputation had attracted his notice and esteem. He THE NAZARETH CEMETERIES. THE first burial place at Nazareth was called the "Hutberg," and, occasionally, "The Hill of Rest." It was situated on the summit of the woody hill that rises up beyond the present Cemetery, so that funeral processions had to walk a great distance in order to reach it. The draft of the plan of the primitive burial ground has been preserved and gives the names and dates of interment of a portion of the first congregation, then occupying the few solitary dwellings constituting Old Nazareth, or Ephrata. The total number borne to the Hutberg was 66, but the places appointed for them have been only partially transmitted to us. The tablets, for the most part, were in crumbling condition, and small fragments of them have been deposited in the room of our Society, but far the greater number of them have been wasted away, and left no record behind them. The first burial made on the Hutberg was that of George Kremser. All the interments from the several nearest settlements took place here and the fear of the savages during the Indian war occasionally demanded an armed escort for the processions. Much additional interest attaches itself to the Hutberg from the fact that the remains of some of the earliest Moravian emigrants and particularly of the primitive Zauchtenthal refugees repose here. Christopher Demuth sleeps on the "Hill of Rest," since 1754. He was born in 1689, was a Roman Catholic, and joined the Brethren at the time of the formation 3 |