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globe, and sent out about 1000 individuals to proclaim 
his doctrines, he finally died at Herrnhut in 1760, where 
we are informed, his obsequies were attended by 2000 
of his followers, and his body borne to the grave by 32 
of those messengers of his faith who were at the time as¬ 
sembled there from Holland, England, Ireland, Green¬ 
land and North America. 
The contemplation of this example, of a man who was at 
once the ancestor of his family and the father of his deno¬ 
mination, with that of other distinguished progenitors, 
early impressed the imagination of the youthful Schwei- 
nitz with an ambition for a career of similar activity, and 
gave the first impulse towards the acquisition of literary 
and scientific eminence. 
1 he society of those friends with whom the early years 
of his childhood were spent, wns calculated to inspire 
him with the same affections and views which had operat¬ 
ed on bis ancestors for two generations. His mind was here 
imbued with those principles, which, at a later period, 
shone forth in the purity and simplicity of his manly 
character. 
Endowed with powers of conception of no ordinary- 
cast, he gave early indications of his bias for intellectual 
pursuits, and by his assiduity more than compensated 
for any deficiency in the means of improvement then 
within his reach. The clear and explicit manner in 
which his juvenile ideas were expressed, encouraged 
his fond parents to indulge the hope, that he would one 
day become an active instrument for advancing the cause 
to which themselves and their predecessors had been so 
