The Reward of the Slain Lamb

On August 21, 1732, two young Moravian men named Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann boarded a ship in Copenhagen, bound for the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. They went to share the gospel with enslaved Africans — and they were willing to sell themselves into slavery to do it. Their sendoff from the Herrnhut community in Saxony was marked by a single phrase that became the Moravian motto: "May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering."…