‘Our method to proclaim salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb (das herzliche Lamm) which died for us, and although he was the Son of God, offered himself for our sins, – as his God, his Mediator between God and man, his preacher of the law, his Confessor, his Comforter, his Saviour, his throne of grace, his example, his brother, in short his all and in all, by the preaching of his blood, and of his love unto death, even the death on the cross; never, either in the discourse or in argument, to digress even for a quarter of an hour from the loving Lamb; to name no virtue, except in Him and from Him and on His account; to preach no commandment except faith in him; no other justification but that he atoned for us; no other sanctification but the privilege to sin no more; no other happiness, but to be around him, to think of him and do his pleasure; no other self-denial, but to be deprived of him and his blessings; no other calamity, but to displease him; no other life, but in him’. – Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, in ‘Home Missionary Operations of the Brethren in the United States, 1742–1752: Home Mission Sermon preached by Br. Levin T. Reichel’, in The Moravian Church Miscellany (Bethlehem: The Church of the United Brethren, 1852), 234–5.