Responding to tragedy is universal. How one relates to or acts out his or her response is not universal. As we have come to see over these many postings the former Moravians have something valuable to transfer to us as contemporary Christians.
In 1755 the Moravian settlement of Gnadenhutten near Bethlehem was wiped out by a band of more than 300, Delaware Indians.
The news of the massacre did not reach North Carolina Moravians for months. To the fact of the massacre the Moravians in Bethabara wrote in their 1756 diary:
“Lord, You has never made a mistake in thy ruling, thou are still our Master, and our faithful God.”
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