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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF 
the publication of a volume of about four hundred pages* 
containing the result of their united eilorts. As we shall 
again recur to this, in connexion with his other perfor¬ 
mances, it will not be necessary here to interrupt our re¬ 
marks to present its peculiar merits as a scientific pro¬ 
duction. 
Near the close of his residence at Niesky he began 
to exercise the functions of a preacher* and was, in 
1807, called to the Moravian settlement at Gnaden- 
burg, in Silesia, where his acquisitions were soon turned 
to good account in various ways connected with his 
profession. Besides parochial duties, he again dis¬ 
charged the office of a teacher, in bringing forward 
many of the young men of his community, who w T ere 
preparing for the duties of his own calling. Upon his 
character as a preacher, there is the less necessity that we 
should comment, even were this the place, and were we 
competent to such an undertaking, because, in that ca¬ 
pacity, his brethren have already exhibited to the pub¬ 
lic a view of his meritorious labours.* We would 
merely state, that, considered as literary performances, 
his sermons were characterized by the utmost simpli¬ 
city, both in style and delivery, and were addressed 
more to the heart than to the head. His discourses 
were invariably practical, not argumentative;—experi¬ 
mental, not speculative. 
The period of which we are speaking, it will be re¬ 
collected, was that of Buonaparte’s continental wars, and 
Germany* the scene of his operations. Mr. Schweinitz 
* See the United Brethren’s Missionary Intelligencer, vol. v. p. 97. 
