The results of a week of prayer and fasting in 1727

The Moravians, a refugee colony from Bohemia, settled on the estates of Count Nicholas Zinzendorf in Herrnhut,
Germany, where a powerful revival began in 1727. It launched 100 years of continuous prayer and within 25 years
100 Moravians were missionaries, more than the rest of the Protestant church had sent out in two centuries.
The Holy Ghost came upon us and in those days great signs and wonders took place in our midst.
From that time scarcely a day passed but what we beheld His almighty workings amongst us.

Fifty years before the beginning of modern Foreign Missions by William Carey, the Moravian Church had sent
out over 100 missionaries. Their English missionary magazine, Periodical Accounts, inspired William Carey.
He threw a copy of the paper on a table at a Baptist meeting, saying, 'See what the Moravians have done!
Cannot we follow their example and in obedience to our Heavenly Master go out into the world,
and preach the Gospel to the heathen?' That missionary zeal began with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Count Zinzendorf observed ' The Saviour permitted to come upon us a Spirit of whom we had hitherto
not had any experience or knowledge. ... Hitherto we had been the leaders and helpers.
Now the Holy Spirit Himself took full control of everything and everybody'.

The full account is here … http://www.evanwiggs.com/revival/history/moravian.html
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