As a seminary student we are often told about the wonderful example of the Moravian church, founded by Zinzendorf, in regard to the world missionary movement. They apparently had many missionaries go to the mission field long before other protestant churches began sending Missionaries. They also had a much higher percentage of missionaries than any other denomination.
My question is: What happened to them? I know the baptists began missions with William Carey, and now there are baptist churches everywhere. Same with many other types of churches, but I have never heard of a Moravian Church. Are there still Moravians around? Did they change their name? Dd they have such poor missionaries that they didn’t’ last more than one Generation?
It continually amazes me that people are incapable of doing the simplest web search by themselves. If they only could, they might find the exact answers they seek. Like this for example:
They are alive and well and crawling out of the woodwork in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Interesting anecdote: when the Civil War started and the call went out for soldiers, Salem (a very Moravian town) sent a brass band.
(For those who don’t know, Moravians are pacifists)
So-called simple web searches for topics do not yield answers as quickly, as readily, or as easily as Straight Dob people do. On a web search you first get a long list of businesses that happen to have the name of whatever you are looking up. A book or two could be written on this alone. If you want to know about the element Xenon, you’ll find all kinds of companies that don’t even know what xenon is but they think it sounds scientific and futuristic, so they call their disco by it or their cheesecake company. If you look up a country or a people, you first get an almost infinite list of TRAVEL INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY WHAT HOTELS YOU CAN STAY AT. If the people you are looking up are extremely obscure and of no monetary value to anybody whatsoever, you DO ACTUALLY GET, FOR A CHANGE, INTERESTING INFORMATION ON THEM, for instance the Ingrians and the Votes living in Ingria or Ingermanland or around Novgorod. Better enjoy Straight Dope while it still exists, because it is too good to be lasting long. Nothing I like ever does last. And the internet is definitely going to be screwed into business and profit more and more and become way too expensive for people to be putting anything of any interest on it. Mark my words, we are living in a very short period of time when information, knowledge, what I’ve always wanted from life, is now at the maximum. When something is new it is good, when it has existed for a while it is bad as all the villainous accountant types come along and ruin it. Enjoy, enjoy before $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Some questions are handled better by search engines, some by message boards. A good rule of thumb is that if you want general information on a specific entity or organization, then you probably want to use a search engine. If you’re in doubt, it’s a good idea to use the search engine first, because if it does yield good answers, it’ll yield them much more quickly than the board.
The idea is that if you ask such a question on the board, then your reply is likely to consist of just a link found by someone else who used the search engine. This indisputably takes up more time than would be taken by the original person just doing the search himself or herself.
But if you use a search engine you would never get to know that Moravian coffe cakes make flodnak hungry, what don willard’s view on the future of the internet is or Chas E has the personality of sandpaper.