[101] The brethren’s house was thus given up in 1812, some time before the date above assigned.
[102] An enthusiastic friend says, “It is a well-known and abundantly substantiated fact that fewer unhappy marriages were known among the Moravians than among the same number of people in any other denomination of Christians while the lot was in practice.” If so, let us burn our romances.
[103] This perhaps occurred during Zinzendorf’s banishment from Saxony. See note at close of this article.
[104] This building, Ephrata, was once a “nursery,” where as many as fifty-six young children were placed at one time. Some were removed from their mothers at as early an age as eighteen months, and placed under the common charge. See Transactions of Moravian Historical Society, 1857-58.
[105] A friend adds: “These Christmas dialogues are still to be heard in Moravian towns, in their parochial schools.”
[106] The tendency to pronounce s like sh will be observed.
[107] A friend says, “Schmaus” is a vulgar term,—use “Fest.”
[108] The corpse is sent to the corpse-house by some families, to this day.
[109] Another person says, that if a man had no proposal to make, he left it to the authorities to suggest a woman; but the authorities never forced a woman upon him against his will.
[110] A lady whom I met at Nazareth spoke of the visits that she used to make in the widow-house, when they went at one, had vesper of coffee and sugar-cake at two, and left at five.