Rev. J. Mortimer Levering, which has recently been published.
Not only on account of its successor the "Oeconomie", at Bethlehem,
and others copied therefrom, but in view of the various modern attempts
which have been and are still being made to demonstrate
that the action of the early Church at Jerusalem can be duplicated
and made financially successful, it is worth while to rescue
the resolutions of the Moravian Congregation at Savannah from the oblivion
of the manuscript Diary, in which they have been so long concealed,
noting the claim that this was the first time since Apostolic days,
that a Congregation had formed itself into such a "Society", --
a "Gemeinschaft".
"In our gathering we read Acts 2, and spoke of the `Gemeinschaft',
for we are planning to work, to sow and reap, and to suffer with one another.
This will be very useful, for many a man who has not understood
or exerted himself, will by this means see himself and be led to improve.
Others also will see from it that we love each other,
and will glorify the Father in Heaven. There has been no "society"
like that at Jerusalem, but at this present time it becomes necessary,
for material reasons.
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