en, and finding Boehler to be of the same mind,
he peremptorily ordered the Moravians to leave his land. Neighbors
interfered, and cried shame on him for turning the little company adrift
in the depth of winter, and he finally agreed to let them stay for
a while in the log cabin which was sheltering them while they were
building the large stone house. The opportune arrival of Bishop
Nitschmann and his company, and the purchase of the Bethlehem tract,
soon relieved them from their uncomfortable position, and later the
Nazareth tract was bought from Whitefield, and the work they had begun
for him was completed for their own use.

Whitefield, in after years, rather excused himself for his first
harshness toward the Moravians, but a letter written by him to a friend
in 1742, is a good statement of the armed truce which existed among the
great religious leaders of that day. "Where the spirit of God is in any
great degree, there will be union of avail, tho' there may be difference
in sentiments. This I have learnt, my dear Brother, by happy experience,
and find great freedom and peace in my soul thereby. This makes me love
the Moravian Brethren tho' I cannot agree with them in many of their
principles. I cannot look upon them as willful deceivers, but as persons
who hazard their lives for the sake of the Gospel. Mr. Wesley is as
certainly wrong in some things as they, and Mr. Law as wrong also. Yet
I believe both Mr. Law and Mr. Wesley and Count Zinzendorf will shine
bright in Glory. I have not given way to the Moravian Brethren, nor any
other who I thought were in the wrong, no, not for one hour. But I think
it best not to dispute when there is no probability of convincing."

Hagen remained in Savannah until February, 1742, when he went to
Bethlehem, accompanied by Abraham Bueninger, of Purisburg, who entered
the Moravian ministry in 1742, and labored among the Indians, the white
settlers, and in the West Indies.

Nine more residents of Georgia followed the Moravians to Bethlehem in
1745, John Brownfield, James Burnside and his daughter Rebecca, Henry
Ferdinand Beck, his wife Barbara, their daughter Maria Christina, and
their sons Jonathan and David, all of Savannah, and Anna Catharine
Kremper, of Purisburg. All of these served faithfully in various
important offices, and were valuable fruit of the efforts in Georgia.

John Hagen was appointed Warden of the Nazareth congregation, when it
was organized; and died at Shamoki