At a "Helpers' Conference" held on March 13th, it was decided
to have nothing more to do with Vollmar, the Wittenberg carpenter,
who had crossed with the second company, had proved false and malicious,
and had now joined Herr von Reck's party without the consent of the Moravians.
More important, however, than the Vollmar affair, was the proposed departure
of Spangenberg for Pennsylvania. Most faithfully had he fulfilled
his commission to take the first company of Moravians to Georgia,
and settle them there, patiently had he labored for and with them
during their days of greatest toil and privation, controlling his own desire
to keep his promise and go to the Schwenkfelders, who were complaining
with some bitterness of his broken faith; but now his task was ended,
the Savannah Congregation was ready to be thrown on its own resources,
Gen. Oglethorpe had provided him with letters of introduction,
and the "lot" said, "Let him go, for the Lord is with him."
Final questions were asked and answered, Spangenberg's Commission
was delivered to him, and then Bishop Nitschmann "laid his blessing upon" him.
In the Lutheran Church, to which he belonged before he joined the Moravians,
Spangenberg had been an accredited minister of the Gospel.
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