Unknown to Brainerd, however, the seeds of a Christian harvest had already been sown, in 1742, in the wilderness of Pennsylvania, by the ardent Moravian leader, Count Nicholas Lewis Zinzendorf; already, in 1744, the fervent Zeisberger, prescient of his long and marvelous service in the church militant, had registered himself as _destinirter Heidenbote_--"appointed messenger to the heathen"--in the corner-stone of the Brethren's House, at Bethlehem; already the pious Rauch had collected a small but earnest congregation of Mohegans at Shekomeko, who soon removed to the Lehigh valley, and pitched the first of those five _Gnadenhütten_, "Tents of Grace," destined successively to mark the unwearied efforts of the Moravian missionaries, and their frustration through the treachery of the conquering whites.[220] It is not my purpose to tell the story of this long struggle. Its thrilling events are recounted, with all desirable fullness, in the vivid narrative of Bishop Edmund de Schweinitz, grouped around the marked individuality of the devoted Zeisberger--pages which none can read without amazement at the undaunted courage of these Christian heroes, without sorrow at the sparse harvest gleaned from such devotion.[221] When, after sixty-two years of missionary labors, the venerable Zeisberger closed his eyes in death (1808), the huts of barely a score of converted Indians clustered around his little chapel. His aspiration that the Lenape would form a native Christian State, their ancient supremacy revived and applied to the dissemination of peace, piety and civilization among their fellow-tribes--this cherished hope of his life had forever disappeared. He had lived to see the Lenape, a mere broken remnant, "steeped in all the abominations of heathenism, eke out their existence far away from their former council fires." FOOTNOTES: [172] H R Schoolcraft, _Notes on the Iroquois_, pp. 135-36. [173] _The Disease of the Scythians (Morbus Feminarum) and Certain Analogous Conditions._ By William A. Hammond, M. D. (New York, 1882). Dr. Hammond found that the _hombre mujerado_ of the Pueblo Indians "is the chief passive agent in the pederastic ceremonies which form so important a part in their religious performances," p. 9. [174] Loskiel, _Geschichte der Mission, etc._, s. 161-2. [175] Wm. Henry Harrison, _A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio_, pp. 24, 25 (Cincinnati, 1838). [176] Gallatin, _Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc._, Vol. II, p. 46. [177] Horatio Hale, _The Iroquois Book of Rites_, p. 92. [178] Edmund de Schweinitz, _Life and Times of David Zeisberger_, p. 46. [179] Heckewelder, _Indian Nations_, pp. xxxii and 60. [180] _Narrative of Hendrick Aupaumut, Mems. Hist. Soc. Pa._, Vol. II, pp. 76-77. Wenaumeen for Unami, the Mohegan form of the name. This seems to limit the peace making power to that gens. He may mean, "Those of the Delawares who are called the Unamis are our Grandfathers," etc.