Very much the same line of argument may be applied to the first attempt
of the Moravian Church to establish a settlement on the American Continent.
The story is usually passed over by historians in a few short paragraphs,
and yet without the colony in Georgia, the whole history of the Renewed Church
of the Unitas Fratrum would have been very different. Without that movement
the Moravian Church might never have been established in England,
without it the great Methodist denomination might never have come into being,
without it the American Moravian provinces, North or South,
might not have been planned. Of course Providence might have provided
other means for the accomplishment of these ends, but certain it is
that in the actual development of all these things the "unsuccessful attempt"
in Georgia, 1735 to 1740, played a most important part.
In preparing this history a number of private libraries, the collections of
the Georgia Historical Society, the Congressional Library, the British Museum,
were searched for data, but so little was found that the story,
in so far as it relates to the Moravian settlement,
has been drawn entirely from the original manuscripts in the Archives
of the Unitas Fratrum at Herrnhut, Germany, with some additions from
the Archives at Bethlehem, Pa.
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