The Good Name - Moravian

The good that the old Moravians left behind in their wake was noted.  In 1762 John McDowell, an Anglican clergyman, asked whether the Moravians could educate his son, since “I look upon them to be a sober, pious and exemplary prudent Society of Christians.”

The year 1762 was not a propitious time to begin a boarding school for others such as this Anglican boy. That year though they did begin holding school for their own children, female as well as male, in Bethabara and Bethania.