He did so,
but we will have to pay their transportation. One is Zeisberger's son David,
about 17 years old, and the other John Michael Schober, about 15 years old.
Both are bad boys." It appears that when Zeisberger's parents went to Georgia
he was left in Herrnhut to finish his education. From there
Count Zinzendorf took him to a Moravian settlement near Utrecht, Holland,
where he was employed as errand boy in a shop. He was treated
with well-meant but ill-judged severity, and finally after
a particularly trying and undeserved piece of harshness in October, 1737,
he and his friend Schober decided to try and make their way
to his parents in Georgia. In this they succeeded, and though their story
was received with disapprobation, they soon made a place for themselves.
Schober did not live very long, but Zeisberger, from the "bad boy"
of Toeltschig's letter, became the assistant of Peter Boehler
in South Carolina, and later the great "apostle to the Indians".
During this Spring the Moravians strained every nerve
to do an amount of work sufficient to balance their account with the Trustees.
It took a little longer than they expected, but at last Toeltschig was ready
for his journey to England, the lot having previously decided
that he should go as soon as financial affairs made it proper.
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