Volume 2

The history of Greenland: containing a description of the country, and its inhabitants: and particularly, a relation of the mission, carried on for above these thirty years by the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that country / by David Crantz. Translated from the High-Dutch.

Cranz, David, 1723-1777.

Date:: 1767

Credit: The history of Greenland: containing a description of the country, and its inhabitants: and particularly, a relation of the mission, carried on for above these thirty years by the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that country / by David Crantz. Translated from the High-Dutch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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${ RELATION or New-Herrwavur 1740. 5 when they told them fomething of the Lord Jefus and ly roufed out of death. Many withftood the truth, par- ticularly if they were reprehended for any thing. ‘Thus when a certain woman, that was caught in a lie, was told, that at this rate fhe would not go to God, but to the father of lies; fhe anfwered with great impudence, that fhe had no mind to go to God, nor to hearken to his word. As foon as the feverity of the winter was paft, moft of them went away, though they were not compelled to it by want, and in April the reft followed them. At that time the brethren wrotethus: ‘* Our «< Lord only knows what part of the feed we have fcat- ‚€ tered among them this winter, will remain in their £© hearts. _ It is undeniable that the confcience of one ** and another has been touched; but the power of “© darknefs is ftill too flrong for them’*. At taking < leave we exhorted them, not to forget what they had *© heard, but to think of it often, and to embrace the “ grace tendered them, that their hearts might be truly “ converted. “They parted from us in peace, and, as © fome of them faid, with a heavy heart. We pitied © the poor children the moft; they had learnt very *¢ prettily this winter, and had a particular love for us; $* we would gladly have kept them, if the parents would ** have confented,. We gave them their reading-books * with them, in which we had wrote fome prayers and «many little exhortations; and as fome of them “<< could read, we bid them read it to the others. << The heathen for fevera] leagues: round about us have « alfo been vifited, as often as wind and weather would ‘© permit. ‘The effect of it is but fmall at prefent, yet _ * now and then fome of them come and beg as to vifit —* them foon again. O that grace may but once truly “© feize and foften their hearts ! It is not impofible * to the Lord. He can call that which is not, and ale ante bet... * ve“ CE * However, the brethren found afterwards, in vifiting them, a:per- ceptible difference between thefe and the other heathens, not only in their knowledge and readinefs to learn, but alfo in their walk. And the ape proaching harveft will demonftrate, that they did not fow in vain. /$