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had also done one thing which more than offset it 

 all; for they had taught them not to defend them- 

 selves, and had thus exposed the poor beings who 

 trusted their teaching to certain destruction. No 

 greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good 

 man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not 

 to defend himself or his fellows ; in no way can the 

 success of evil be made surer and quicker; but the 

 wrong was peculiarly great when at such a time and 

 in such a place the defenceless Indians were thrust 

 between the anvil of their savage red brethren and 

 the hammer of the lawless and brutal white border- 

 ers. The awful harvest which the poor converts 

 reaped had in reality been sown for them by their 

 own friends and would-be benefactors. 



So the Moravians, seeking to deal honestly with 

 Indians and whites alike, but in return suspected and 

 despised by both, worked patiently year in and year 

 out, as they dwelt in their lonely homes, meekly 

 awaiting the stroke of the terrible doom which hung 

 over them. 



VOL. V. 



