mong the people,
repeating his visit at intervals during the following months.

The intimacy between Ingham and the Moravians became closer and closer,
and in July, 1742, he formally handed over the care of his societies in
Yorkshire and Lascashire to the Moravian Church, himself going into new
fields, and then giving new societies into their keeping. It has often
been stated that Ingham was a Moravian, but this is a mistake. During
these years he worked with them shoulder to shoulder, but there is no
record of his having been received into their Church as a member, nor
did they reordain him into their ministry. The situation would be
more strange to-day than it was then, for there was apparent chaos in
England, the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters before
"light shone, and order from disorder sprung," and the Moravians did
not care to emphasize their independence of the Anglican Church lest
it injure their usefulness. In 1744, when England was threatened with a
French invasion, a number of loyal addresses were presented to the King,
and among them one from the "United Brethren in England, in union
with the ancient Protestant Episcopal Bohemian and Moravian church," a
designation selected after long and careful discussion as to a true term
which would avoid placing them among the Dissenters from the Church of
England.

When the Moravians took over the Yorkshire Societies in 1742 they
established headquarters at Smith House, near Halifax, but this not
proving permanently available, Ingham, in 1744, bought an estate near
Pudsey, where the Moravians planted a settlement which they called
"Lamb's Hill", later "Fulneck". In 1746 and 1749 Ingham presented to the
Moravians the ground on which the Chapel and two other houses stood, but
for the rest they paid him an annual rent. The property is now held of
Ingham's descendents on a lease for five hundred years.

In 1753 Ingham withdrew from his close association with the Moravians,
and established a new circle of societies, himself ordaining the
ministers who served them. These societies flourished for a while,
but about 1759 Ingham became imbued with the doctrines of a certain
Sandeman, and the result was the almost total wrecking of his societies.
This broke Ingham's heart, and affected his mind, so that his last
days were very sad. He passed away in 1772, and his societies gradually
merged themselves into other churches.

John Toeltschig, Ingham's friend in