This  was  polyglot  singing,  when  companies  were  gathered  in  which
persons  of  various  nationalities  and  languages,  or  at  least  persons
acquainted  with  such  languages,  were  present.  One  such  occasion
was  on  August  21,  1745,  the  thirteenth  anniversary  of  the  departure
from  Herrnhut  of  Leonard  Dober  and  David  Nitschmann  to  begin
the  first  missionary  work  of  the  Moravian  Church  among  the  heathen.
Then  the  same  verses,  as  rendered  in  English,  German,  Swedish,
Danish,  and  Jewish-German,  were  sung  simultaneously  to  the  same
tune,  by  persons  whose  native  tongue  belonged  to  this  list.  It  was
observed  on  that  occasion  that  eighteen  languages  were  spoken
among  converts  of  Moravian  evangelists  in  different  countries.
Another  such  object-lesson  in  song  was  given  on  September  4,
following.     Three  days  before  that,  Pyrlaeus,  master  of  the  school

"In  this  term,  as  applied  to  the  cemetery,  another  interesting  specimen  of  the  odd  phrase-
ology introduced  by  Cammerhoff  appears.  Elsewhere  occurs,  for  interment,  the  expression
"  in  das  Laboratorium  auf  den  Test  bringen  " —  to  put  into  the  cupel  in  the  laboratory  —
and  "zw^  verzuandelung  des  Fleisches'''' — transmutation  of  the  flesh — in  the  sense  of  I  Cor.
