In religious matters, the organization
of the Savannah Congregation had been modeled after that at Herrnhut,
so far as possible, but in material things the circumstances
were very different. At Herrnhut the estates of Count Zinzendorf,
under the able supervision of the Countess, were made to pay
practically all the general Church expenses, and many of the members
were in the service of the Saxon nobleman, Nicholas Lewis, Count Zinzendorf,
in various humble positions, even while in the Church
he divested himself of his rank and fraternized with them as social equals.
But the men who emigrated to Georgia had undertaken to support themselves
and carry on a mission work, and Spangenberg, with his keen insight,
grasped the idea that a common purpose warranted a community of service,
the labor of all for the benefit of all, with every duty,
no matter how menial, done as unto the Lord, whom they all,
in varying degrees, acknowledged as their Master. Later, in Bethlehem, Pa.,
with a larger number of colonists, and wider interests to be subserved,
Spangenberg again introduced the plan, and elaborated it
into a more or less intricate system, which is described
in a clear and interesting manner in "A History of Bethlehem",
by Rt.
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