he enormous difficulty under which mission work was conducted in
those days, when the most momentous events might transpire months before
the authorities at home could be apprised of them.

Hagen had become very ill on the way from Charleston to Savannah,
and with none of his own people to turn to he bethought himself of
Whitefield's offers of friendship, and went to his house. He was kindly
received by those who were living there, and though he went down to the
gates of death the portals did not open, and he rapidly regained his
health.

Visiting Irene he found only a few Indian women, for Tomochichi was
dead, and the men were all on the warpath. The opportunity of going to
the Cherokees seemed very doubtful, for there were none living nearer
than three hundred miles, and distances looked much greater in the
Georgia forests than in his own populous Germany. So he concluded to
accept the kind offers of Whitefield's household, and stay with them,
making himself useful in the garden, and doing such religious work as
he was able. Several Germans living in the town, who had learned to like
the Moravians, asked him to hold services for them, to which he gladly
agreed.

He was much pleased with the prospect for work in Savannah, where the
people had been greatly stirred by Whitefield's preaching, and he wrote
to Herrnhut urging that two married couples be sent to help reap the
harvest, a request warmly seconded by Whitefield, who had returned to
Savannah on June 16th. Whitefield reported the Moravians busily engaged
in erecting a Negro school-house for him in Pennsylvania, and told Hagen
he would like to have the two couples come to assist him in carrying out
his large plans for Georgia.

But by the 14th of August this invitation had been withdrawn, Hagen
had left Whitefield's house, and had been refused work on Whitefield's
plantation, for fear that he might contaminate the Whitefield converts.
The trouble arose over a discussion on Predestination,--not the first or
last time this has happened,--and the two men found themselves utterly
at variance, for Whitefield held the extreme Calvinistic view, while
Hagen argued that all men who would might be saved. Hagen therefore went
to the home of John Brownfield, who shared his views, and made him
very welcome, and from there carried on his work among the residents of
Savannah and Purisburg.

Whitefield returned to Pennsylvania in November, 1740, nursing his
wrath against Hag