The Moravian Missionaries who Sold themselves into Slavery “Two young Moravians heard of an island in the West Indies where an atheist British owner had 2000 to 3000 slaves. And the owner had said, ‘No preacher, no clergyman, will ever stay on this island. If he’s ship wrecked we’ll keep him in a separate house until he has to leave, but he’s never going to talk to any of us about God, I’m through with all that nonsense.’ Three thousand slaves from the jungles of Africa brought to an island in the Atlantic and there to live and die without hearing of Christ. Two young Moravians heard about it and sold themselves to the British planter. As the ship left its pier in the river at Hamburg and was going out into the North Sea carried with the tide, the Moravians had come from Herrenhut to see these two lads off, never to return again, for this wasn’t a four year term, they sold themselves into lifetime slavery. The families were there weeping, for they knew they would never see them again. And they wondered why they were going and questioned the wisdom of it. As the boat drifted out the young boys saw the widening gap, and one lad with his arm linked through the arm of his fellow, raised his hand and shouted across the gap the last words that were heard from them, they were these, ‘MAY THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN RECEIVE THE REWARD OF HIS SUFFERING!'” -the first Moravian missionaries of 1732 a couple of days ago I was listening to John Pipers sermon called DOING MISSIONS WHEN DYIING IS GAIN- amazing sermon you can go to Desiring God to listen to it if you please.. But he briefly mentions the two Moravian missionaries, but doesnt tell their full story. I was so curious that i stopped the podcast and immediately went to the website and looked up the written sermon and there I found a link that would tell me the story that is written above.. after reading I was still and began wondering if my heart was there… I mean man.. when was the last time you were so moved by the lost that you thought it a good idea to give up your life?hmmm just something I’ve been thinking about the last couple of days and thought I would share.
