Like John Wesley,
he came with the strictest ideas of Sabbath observance, etc.,
and as one said, in answer to a reproof, "these were new laws in America."
The effect may be summed up in his own words: "My chief business
was daily to visit the people, to take care of those that were sick,
and to supply them with the best things we had. For a few days at the first,
I had everybody's good word; but when they found I watched narrowly over them,
and reproved them sharply for their faults, immediately the scene changed.
Instead of blessing, came cursing, and my love and kindness
were repaid with hatred and ill-will."
Oglethorpe remained on the Altamaha but a few days,
and then returned to Savannah for the rest of his colonists.
Meanwhile the Moravian Congregation was being fully organized.
During Spangenberg's visit to Oglethorpe on his vessel, the Moravians,
including Bishop Nitschmann, met together, and John Toeltschig
was elected manager (Vorsteher), Gottfried Haberecht, monitor (Ermahner),
and Gotthard Demuth to perform various minor duties (Diener).
The name of the nurse (Krankenwaerter) is not given,
but he was probably John Regnier, who acted as physician,
not only for the Moravians, but for many of their poorer neighbors.
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