DAVID, Christian

[s. 223] : Born in Moravia early in the 18th century, his father a Bohemian, his mother a German. He was a zealous Roman Catholic, but was converted to the Moravian views early in life and became a leader in the great Moravian emigration to Count Zinzendorf’s estates. Of this, Zinzendorf writes: “Christian David was so intent on the Moravian emigration, that, when he was engaged in wainscoting the saloon of my house at Berthelsdorf in 1723, and had about finished his work, he left his tools, and set off, without hat, ona journey of nearly 200 miles, He made to Moravia, to lead back emigrants. eleven or twelve journeys in all, and, tho often in the most imminent danger from the officers of justice who rode in search of him, he was pa ed by or preserved from them in the most wonderful manner.” The removal to Berthelsdorf began in 1722 with ten persons, and within seven years 300 others had joined the little company and built In 1733 Christian the town called Herrnhut. David accompanied the first Moravian mi ion After various journeys in aries to Green land. the service of the church and another voyage to accompanied the great mis in 1748 Green land, he In August, sionary colony to Pennsylvania. 1749, after revisiting Green land, he made another visit to America, and a isted in building the chapel-house at Nazareth, Penn. He died at Herrnhut, 1750. pupils. 223