The Prayer That Outlived Them All

On August 27, 1727, twenty-four men and twenty-four women in the small village of Herrnhut, Saxony, made a quiet covenant. Under the pastoral care of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf, these Moravian believers committed to an unbroken chain of hourly prayer, day and night, with each person taking a designated watch. What began as a simple act of devotion that summer morning became something no one could have predicted.…