is there a trace of the gradual elaboration of any plan dictated
by human wisdom. The leading men in the Ancient Unity, the emigrant
founders of Herrnhut, Count Zinzendorf himself, and those of his
fellow-labourers who were instrumental in introducing the Church into
England, were all led gradually and by a way which they knew not to
results they had not contemplated. As an anonymous writer, one of their
body, remarks, "What a striking proof is here afforded of the wisdom and
faithfulness of God! Surely it well becomes the members of a community
which has been so undeservedly favoured to inquire whether they, as
individuals and collectively, have faithfully improved the privileges
bestowed upon them."

But about the chapel. Turn to Baxter's Diary, and we find the place
mentioned there. He writes: "On January the 24th, 1672-3, I began a
Tuesday Lecture at Mr. Turner's church in New Street, near Fetter Lane,
with great convenience and God's encouraging blessing." It is, writes
Mr. Orme, that between Nevill's Court and New Street, now occupied by the
Moravians. It appears to have existed, though perhaps in a different
form, before the Fire of London. Turner, who was the first minister, was
a very active man during the Plague. He was ejected from Sunbury, in
Middlesex, and continued to preach in Fetter Lane till towards the end of
the reign of Charles II., when he removed to Leather Lane. Baxter
carried on the morning week-day lecture till the 24th of August, 1682.
The church which then met in it was under the care of Mr. Lobb, whose
predecessors had been Dr. Thomas Goodwin and Thankful Owen. This church
still exists, but on the opposite side of the way, under the care of the
Rev. J. Spurgeon. The Moravians came into possession of the building in
1740. They had previously met in Fetter Lane, but in a smaller room.
The present chapel was then known as the Great Meeting-house, or
Bradbury's Meeting-house. Tradition says that the place was once used as
a saw-pit, and as a place of asylum when the State Church was busy at the
work in which it has ever been untiring, no matter how remiss in other
matters--that of enforcing its rights real or fancied, and disregarding
those of other men. Tradition also says that the place was built, for
the same reason, with two modes of egress, that the good men in the
pulpit might have an additional chance of safety. It was in the meeting
that Emmanuel Swedenborg was for a time