ABSTRACT
Dr. Sourby and our hero reached, without any adventure worthy notice, a Moravian settlement on the banks of the Delaware, called Bethlehem. The town was small, but well built, and supplied with water. The houses and streets were remarkably uniform, neat, and simple, like the dress and manners of the inhabitants; who had emigrated and settled under the auspices of the celebrated count Zinzendorff, whose religious doctrines are well known through Europe. Their leading / principle is universal love, and their most peculiar rite, washing the feet of each other. Their hymns are very mysterious, and often bordering on vulgarity and obscenity. They deny the lawfulness of war, and form a religious and civil community, maintaining a strict uniformity in their dress, habitations, and modes of life. 409
