SECTION III.-THE BRITISH PROVINCE.

Among the churches of the British Province, there are four settlements like those on the Continent, the rest are all ordinary churches. The following is the list:

In ENGLAND, London and Chelsea begun in 1738; Ockbrook, in Derbyshire, begun in 1740; a Moravian settlement, the seat of the British Provincial Board; Fulneck and Horton begun in 1742, the former a Moravian settlement, the latter an affiliated congregation in the neighborhood; Wyke begun in 1742; Mirfield begun in 1742; Gomersal begun in 1742; Baildon begun in 1780. All these are in Yorkshire. Fairfield, in Lancashire, begun in 1768, a Moravian settlement; Salem, in Lancashire, begun in 1825; Leominster, in Herefordshire, begun in 1755; Woodford, in Northampton, begun in 1792; Bedford, in Bedfordshire, begun in 1742; Kimbolton, in Huntingdonshire, begun in 1823; Risely, in Bedfordshire, begun in 1742; Pertenhall, in Bedfordshire, begun in 1323; Bristol, in Gloucestershire, begun in 1748; Kingswood, in Gloucestershire, begun in 1740; Brockweir, in Monmouthshire, begun in 1833; Bath, in Somersetshire, begun in 1760; Boltonsborough, in Somersetshire, begun in 1852; Tytherton, in Wiltshire, begun in 1742; Malmesbury, in Wiltshire, begun in 1742; Devonport, in Devonshire, begun in 1769; and Dukinfield.

In WALES, Haverfordwest, with Purdine and Portfield, begun in 1753.

In SCOTLAND, Ayr, in Ayrshire, begun in 1768.

In IRELAND, Dublin begun in 1746; Gracehill, Antrim County, a Moravian settlement, begun in 1751; Ballinderry, in Antrim County, begun in 1751; Gracefield, in Londonderry County, begun in 1751; Kilwarlin, in Down County, begun in 1751; Kilkeel, in Down County, begun in 1752; Cootehill, in Cavan County, begun in 1754.

Enterprises of the British Province.

A. EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES.-This Province has no Theological Seminary or College of its own. Young men studying for the ministry are generally educated in the institutions of the church on the Continent. There are, however, a number of Boarding Schools, namely: At Bedford, one for girls; at Dukinfield, one for girls; at Fairfield, two, (one for boys, the other for girls ;) at Fulneck, two; at Ockbrook, two; at Gracehill, two; at Gomersal, one for girls; at Mirfield, one for boys; at Tytherton and Wyke, each, one for girls; fifteen in all.

B. HOME MISSION.-This is a cause carried on by means of Scripture readers in Ireland, who visit the cottages of the poor, reading and explaining to them the word of God. The Foreign Mission work engages the particular attention of the British Province, which takes the lead in promoting this cause.

C. PUBLICATIONS.-The Church Book Store is located in London. Periodical publications are the following: The Text Book, as in the other Provinces ; the Periodical Accounts, a quarterly magazine, devoted to the interests of the Foreign Mission work, and established in 1790; the Fraternal Record, a monthly miscellany not published by the church, but a private enterprise.

Having given an account of the three Provinces of the Moravian Brethren's Unity, as they at present appear, and of the enterprises carried on by each, we proceed to the great work which engages the chief attention of the church, and in which all the Provinces unitedly take part. It is the cause of Foreign Missions.

SECTION IV.THE FOREIGN MISSION WORK OF THE

MORAVIAN CHURCH.

The Foreign Mission work was begun in the year 1732, ten years after the erection of the first house at Herrnhut, when this congregation, numbering about six hundred souls, constituted the only Moravian church in existence. Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann, the latter afterwards the first Bishop of the Renewed Church, were the pioneers, and proceeded to the island of St. Thomas, where a mission was established among the negro slaves. Since that time, although not all the enterprises which were undertaken proved successful, the cause has prospered beyond the most sanguine hopes of the early

Brethren. The missionary spirit, in the first stage of its development, manifested itself particularly among the immigrants from Moravia. It was, therefore, the life of the Ancient Unitas, a life which Rome could not quench, that gave the impulse to the great work in which all evangelical churches are now actively engaged, and extended the principles of the Reformers before the Reformation, to countries whose existence. was. unknown when Hus preached the gospel in Bohemia, and Gregory laid the foundations of the Brethren's Church.

Up to the year 1852, the church had sent out one thousand nine hundred aud forty-seven missionaries, male and female. Taking the annual average of those who entered the service since then to have been twenty, the whole number of missionaries, male and female, who went forth from the Moravian Church in the one hundred and twenty-seven years of the existence of the Foreign Mission enterprise, amounts to two thousand and eighty-seven.

Since the commencement of the work, unsuccessful attempts to establish Missions, have been made in the following countries: Lapland, among the Samoyedes, Algiers, Ceylon, China, Persia, East Indies, Caucasus, and Demarara. In the following countries Missions were established, but suspended again: Guinea, among the Calmucks, Abyssinia, and Tranquebar.

The present extent of the Foreign Mission field, which is generally divided into Provinces, is the following:

FIRST PROVINCE, Greenland, four stations: New Herrnhut, Lichtenfels, Lichtenau, and Fredericksthal.

SECOND PROVINCE, Labrador, four stations: Nain, Hopedale, Okak, and Hebron.

THIRD PROVINCE, North America, four stations: New Fairfield, in Canada West, among Delaware Indians; Westfield, in Kansas, among Delaware Indians; New Spring Place, and Canaan, among the Cherokees, in the Cherokee country.

FOURTH PROVINCE, Central America, three stations: Bluefields, Magdala, and Rama Key, among the Mosquito Indians and the negroes of the Mosquito Coast.

FIFTH PROVINCE, Danish West Indies, eight stations: New Herrnhut, Nisky, Town of St. Thomas, in St. Thomas; Friedensthal, Friedensberg, and Friedensfeld, in St. Croix; Bethany and Emmaus, in St. Jan.

SIXTH PROVINCE, Jamaica, thirteen stations: Fairfield, New Eden, Irwin Hill, New Carmel, New Bethlehem, New Fulneck, New Nazareth, Beaufort, New Hope, Lititz, Bethany, Bethabara, Springfield.

SEVENTH PROVINCE, Antigua, seven stations: St. Johns, Gracehill, Gracebay, Cedar Hall, Newfield, Lebanon, Gracefield.

EIGHTH PROVINCE, St. Kitts, four stations: Basseterre, Bethesda, Estridge, Bethel.

NINTH PROVINCE, Barbadoes, four stations: Sharon, Bridgetown, Mount Tabor, Clifton Hill.

TENTH PROVINCE, Tobago, two stations: Montgomery, Moriah.