Excerpt from The Text Book of the Moravian Church Being the Scripture "Watchwords" And "Doctrinal Texts" For the Year 1920: One Hundred and Eighty-Eighth Year; With an Appendix The Church of The Unitas Fratrum Moravians at Herrnhut (17224727) felt the need of having for each day a short word of Scripture as a guide to their meditations, praying, speaking and general conduct. Count Zinzendorf undertook to select suitable texts. To these he added a few lines from hymns, that were at that time in use in the services of the congregation. These additions, it was hoped, would lead to a right understanding of the texts and sug gest the application of the truths to the individual heart. In the first years a Scripture text, with lines from a hymn, was announced in the daily evening service as the Watchword for the following day. It was not till 1732 that a series of Watchwords was printed in advance for the whole year. One of the last labors of Count Zinzen dorf was the selection of the Watchwords for the year 1761. After his decease the duty of selecting them de volved on the newly constituted Governing Board of the Church. The book underwent some changes as regards title and form. Two texts of Scripture were given for each day. The Watchword was always taken from the Old Testa ment; the Doctrinal Text was chosen from the New Testa ment, so that in one year the Gospels, the Acts and the Book of Revelation were represented, in the next year the Epistles, and in the third all the books of'the New Testa ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.