Moving from one year to the next was an opportunity for the Moravian communities to stop and consider the goodness of the Lord. Thus December 31st, new year's eve, was a unique day on the Moravian calendar. Consider the following notation in the Bethabara Diary on the last day of 1785.
"When the changing year was announced by the trombonists we fell on our knees and thanked our dear Lord for all the mercy and goodness vouchsafed us during the year just passed. Then the daily text was read ... and the service closed with the Old Testament benediction."
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