disappointed to learn that
both were absent. They scarcely knew what to do, but Boehler held them
together, and when Whitefield decided to buy a large tract of land and
build thereon a Negro school, and a town for his English friends of
philanthropic mind, and when the Moravians were offered the task of
erecting the first house there, Boehler and his companions gladly
accepted the work. Bethlehem followed in due time, and all were among
those who organized that congregation. David Zeisberger, Sr., died there
in 1744, his wife in 1746. Anton Seifert was appointed Elder, or Pastor
of the Bethlehem Congregation, married, and took an active part in the
Church and School work there and at Nazareth, the latter tract having
been purchased from Whitefield in 1741. April 8th, 1745, he sailed for
Europe, laboring in England, Ireland and Holland, and dying at Zeist in
1785.

John Martin Mack became one of the leaders of the Moravian Church in its
Mission work among the Indians in New York, Connecticut and Ohio until
1760, when he was sent to the negro slaves on St. Thomas, preaching also
on St. Croix and St. Jan, and the English West Indies. He was ordained
to the ministry November 13th, 1742, and was consecrated bishop October
18th, 1770, during a visit to Pennsylvania, this being the first
Episcopal consecration in the American Province of the Moravian Church.
He was married four times, his last wife passing away two years before
his departure. He died June 9th, 1784, and was buried in the presence
of a great concourse of people,--negro converts, planters, government
officers and the Governor-General.

David Zeisberger, Jr., lived a life so abundant in labors, so
picturesque in experiences that a brief outline utterly fails to give
any conception of it. "The apostle of the Western Indians traversed
Massachusetts and Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, entered
Michigan and Canada, preaching to many nations in many tongues. He
brought the Gospel to the Mohicans and Wampanoags, to the Nanticokes
and Shawanese, to the Chippewas, Ottowas and Wyandots, to the Unamis,
Unalachtgos and Monseys of the Delaware race, to the Onondagas, Cayugas
and Senecas of the Six Nations. Speaking the Delaware language fluently,
as well as the Mohawk and Onondaga dialects of the Iroquois; familiar
with the Cayuga and other tongues; an adopted sachem of the Six Nations;
naturalized among the Monseys by a formal act of the tribe; swaying for
a