guidance, in perfect faith that the Lord would plainly answer his
servants, who were seeking to do his will. This standard was not always
maintained, but the leaders of the Moravian Congregation in Savannah had
the early, absolute, belief that God spoke to them through the lot,
and felt themselves bound to implicit obedience to its dictates.
Their custom was to write two words or sentences on separate slips,
representing the two possible answers to their question, and after
earnest prayer to draw one slip, and then act accordingly. Sometimes a
third slip, a blank, was added, and if that was drawn it signified
that no action should be taken until another time, and after further
consideration.

Some time in July, Peter Rose and his wife, (the widow Riedel) went
to live among the Lower Creeks, giving all their time to learning the
language, and teaching what they could about religion.

On August 9th, Mr. Ingham went to the Moravians with a new plan. Gen.
Oglethorpe had agreed to build a schoolhouse for Indian children, near
Tomochichi's village, with the idea that it would give opportunity also
to reach the older men and women with the Gospel message. The house
was to contain three rooms, one for Ingham, one for the Moravian
missionaries, and one to be used for the school, and it was suggested
that the Moravians undertake the erection of the building, the Trustees'
fund to pay them for their labor. The proposition was gladly accepted,
and preparations were at once made to send the necessary workmen.

On Monday, the 13th, Toeltschig and five others went to the spot which
had been selected for the Indian Schoolhouse, usually called 'Irene'.
The site of this schoolhouse has been considered uncertain, but a
short manuscript account of "the Mission among the Indians in America",
preserved in the Herrnhut Archives, says distinctly that it stood "a
mile above the town (of Savannah) on an island in the Savannah River
which was occupied by the Creeks."

When the carpenters arrived the first act was to unite in prayer for a
blessing on their work, and then they began to fell trees and cut down
bushes, clearing the ground for the hut in which they were to live while
building the schoolhouse. The hut was placed on the grave of an Indian
chief. "The Indians are accustomed to bury their chiefs on the spot
where they died, to heap a mound some 24 feet high above them, to
mourn them for a while, and then to abandon the spot," and thi