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Transcriber's Note:
The original images were of very poor quality, some punctuation has been inferred.
This document was originally published in 1822 and containsarchaic spelling, and a number of obvious typographicalerrors, the latter of which have been corrected. For a complete list, please see theend of this document.
Page numbering is consistent with the original document.
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MORAVIANS
IN
LABRADOR.
THE
MORAVIANS IN LABRADOR.
| From Greenland's icy mountains The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation Has learnt the Saviour's name. Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole. |
| Heber. |
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY J. RITCHIE.
SOLD BY W. WHYTE & CO., W. OLIPHANT, WAUGH& INNES,
AND J. LINDSAY & CO., EDINBURGH;
M. OGLE, AND W. COLLINS, GLASGOW;
HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO., AND J. NISBET, LONDON.
M.DCCC.XXXIII.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The present small volume which, in some measure, owes its origin tothe suggestion of that long tried, excellent, and first friend of theMoravians in Scotland, R. Plenderleath, Esq., and being cordiallyapproved of by the Rev P. Latrobe, London, though connected withconsiderable labour, great part of it having been translated from theGerman, has been cheerfully executed, and is intended to promote apurpose similar to that of the first edition of the Moravians inGreenland—to aid the subscriptions of some private friends who wishto communicate occasionally with the Missionaries in Labrador, andsend them a few articles of comfort which the general funds do notsupply. In allusion to this, the following extract from a letter,addressed to a friend in this city, from one of these devoted men,will be pleasant to the friends of t