Moravian Brethren
Americanplural noun
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Most of the Eskimo voters would be picked up offshore from the missions of the Moravian Brethren who came out from Germany to Christianize the Eskimos in 1764.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others have found a wealth of good tunes in the hymnals and psalmbooks used by the Moravian Brethren of 18th century Pennsylvania.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Schmalcald, and still more the Thirty Years' War, had brought frightful suffering and persecution upon the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
E. of Dresden; gave name to a colony of Moravian Brethren who took refuge there in 1792, and were protected by Count Zinzendorf.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
Some of the Eastern sages professed the same principles in this respect as the Moravian Brethren.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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