ZEISBERGER, David

[s. 826] : Born at Zauchtenthal, Moravia, April 11, 1721 died November 17, 1808. His progenitors belonged to the ancient Church of the Bohemian Brethren, founded sixty years before the Reformation by the followers of John Hu . When David was five years old, his parents fled to Herrnhut, in Saxony, a colony of Moravian emigrants. In 1736 his parents joined the colony in Georgia, which James Ogle thorpe had established three years before, leaving their son at Herrnhut to be educated by the Moravians. From thence he went to Holland and lived in a Moravian settlement called Herrendyk, joining his parents in America in 1738. In 1740 he went North, and with others founded Bethlehem and Nazareth in Pennsylvania. In 1745 he began his work among the Indians, and was soon arrested as a spy of the sixty years.; towns, had He established thirteen Christian and tho scarcely one remained, yet many converts, and his character, motives, and efforts are “an honor to the Moravian Church, and to our common humanity.” Zeisberger was a thorough scholar. He mastered several native tongues, especially the he Delaware and Onondaga. He left in manua German and Onondaga lexicon in seven volumes quarto, a grammar of the Onondaga language in German and English, a Delaware grammar and dictionary, and several script vocabularies. All of these are deposited in the Library of Harvard College, and in the Library of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. His Diary, translated by Eugene H. Bli , was published in two octavo volumes in 1885. French by the colonial government of New York, and was imprisoned for seven weeks. Released by Governor Clinton, he labored till 1750 among the Del a wares at Shamokin (Sunbury, Pa.) and the Iroquois at Onondaga, where the Six Nations made him a sachem, and “keeper of their archives.” In 1750 he visited Europe in behalf of the mi ion. In 1752 he returned to Onondaga, but was compelled to retire to Bethlehem at the opening of the French and Indian war. Between 1755 and 1762 he visited North Carolina and the New England Provinces, labored among the Indians of Canada, and acted as interpreter for Pennsylvania in the treaty with Teedyuseung and his allies. In the time of the Pontiac conspiracy he ministered to the Christian Indians who had found refuge in Philadelphia, and at the close of the war he led the survivors of the converts to Wyalusing, Bradford County, Pa., on the Susquehanna. In 1767 he established a mi ion among the Monsey Del a wares on the Allegheny River, Venango County, and three years later began the station which he called Friedenstadt, on Beaver Creek, in what is now Lawrence County. In 1772 he went to Central Ohio, and commenced a town called Schoenbrunn, on the Tuscarawas, ten miles from the site of Canal Dover, where he 808 ZENANA BIBLE AND MEDICAL MISSION, or Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society: Headquarters: 2 Adelphi Terrace, London, W. C, England. This society was first organized under the second name in 1852, as a general mi ionary society, with the special purpose of cooperating with other societies, particularly the CMS, BFBS, and others. Later there was a distinction made between Zenana and educational work, and the scope of the society was enlarged and its present organization was effected. Its special object is to help the women of India by sending female mi ionaries to relieve sickne , promote education, establish hospitals, schools and such other institutions as may be needed. The Executive Committee, of not more than 24 nor le than 18 members, is self-perpetuating. While more closely connected with the Church of England, it cooperates with any orthodox Protestant ’ Mi ionary Societies; holding that the work which it does need not be denominational. Its work is in India, at 32 stations in the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, the United Provinces, and the Punjab. According to the report (1903) there were 104 European and 53 a istant mi ionaries, 275 native workers, 64 809 schools with 3,208 pupils and 226 under training Normal Schools, The hospital shows 1,892 in-patients and 21,083 out-patients in 5 hospitals and dispensaries, with a total of 72,921 attendances at dispensaries. In the Zenana work 4,375 houses were visited and 2,728 pupils instructed. in ZENANA MISSIONARY SOCIETY England). (Church of See Chtjkch of England. 827