rom Delamotte, and on the 2nd of January, 1738, sailed from
the continent that had witnessed the shattering of so many fond hopes
and ambitions.

Forty-seven years later Brierly Allen settled in Savannah, the first
minister there to represent the great denomination which grew from
Wesley's later work in England, and the first Methodist Society in that
city of his humiliation was organized in 1806.

During the preceding summer Zinzendorf had written to the Trustees,
asking once more for (1) entire exemption from military service for the
Georgia Moravians, for (2) permission for them to leave Georgia if this
could not be granted, and (3) that at least four might remain among the
Indians as missionaries.

In answer the Trustees (1) repeated their former decision regarding
freehold representation, (2) gave consent for the Moravians to leave
if they would not comply with this, and (3) refused to let them stay
as missionaries. "The privilege of going among the Indians was given
to your people out of consideration for Your Excellency, and also on
account of their good conduct, they being citizens of this colony; but
if they cease to reside there, this privilege will not be continued
to any of them. To employ them as missionaries to instruct the Indians
would be a reflection on our country, as if it could not furnish a
sufficient number of pious men to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Therefore your people may continue among the Indians, only so long as
they are citizens of the colony."

This was the death-blow to the Moravian settlement in Georgia. Had
the Trustees exemplified their much-vaunted religious toleration by
respecting the conscientious scruples of the Moravians, there were
enough members of the Savannah Congregation who wanted to stay in
Georgia to form the nucleus of the larger colony which would surely have
followed them, for while they were willing to give up everything except
religious liberty, they were human enough to regret having to abandon
the improvements which they had made at the cost of so much labor and
self-denial. The Church at large shared this feeling, and for many years
watched and waited for an opportunity to re-open the work in Savannah,
but without result. If the Trustees had even permitted the Moravians to
stay as missionaries it might have saved the settlement to Georgia,
for within a decade the English Parliament passed an Act granting the
Moravians the very exemption for which they n