. He was Elder of the "Pilgrim Congregation" formed at Fetter Lane
in May, 1742, a congregation composed exclusively of "laborers" in the
Lord's vineyard, and he was also one of the committee charged with the
oversight of the general work.

In February, 1748, he went to Ireland, as superintendent of the
societies there, some of which had been organized by Wesley, but now
wished to unite with the Moravians. In 1752 he conducted a company of
colonists to Pennsylvania, but the next year went back to Ireland, where
certain troubles had arisen which he could quiet better than any one
else.

After Zinzendorf's death in 1760, Toeltschig was one of that company of
leading men who met in Herrnhut to provide for the immediate needs of
the Moravian Church, whose enemies prophesied disintegration upon the
death of the man who had been at its head for more than thirty years.
These predictions failed of fulfillment, and "it was demonstrated that
the Lord had further employment for the Unitas Fratrum."

Less renowned than many of his confreres, Toeltschig was a type of that
class of Moravians who carried their Church through slight and
blight into the respect and good-will of the world. Industrious and
scrupulously exact in business affairs, courteous and considerate in his
dealings with others, firm and fearless in matters of conscience,
bold to declare his faith, and witness for his Master, energetic and
"conservatively progressive" in promoting the growth of his church, he
took little part in the controversies of his day, but devoted himself
unreservedly to preaching the Gospel as it was read by John Hus, by the
founders of the ancient Unitas Fratrum, by the renewers of that Church
in Herrnhut, "Salvation by faith in Christ and real Christian living
according to the precepts of the Bible."

The Negro Mission.

John Toeltschig had been the diarist of the Moravian Congregation in
Savannah, as well as their treasurer and most able member, and after he
left very little record was kept of the daily occurrences. A few stray
letters have been preserved, but little of interest appears therein,
beyond the facts that the summer of 1738 was hot and dry, and that
the Moravians were not molested, although always conscious of the
under-current of antagonism.

Some time during these months Matthias Seybold left for Pennsylvania,
where he married, and was one of the company that established the
settlement at Bethlehem. He returned to Eu