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Less renowned than many of his confreres, Toeltschig was a type
of that class of Moravians who carried their Church
through slight and blight into the respect and good-will of the world.
Industrious and scrupulously exact in business affairs,
courteous and considerate in his dealings with others,
firm and fearless in matters of conscience, bold to declare his faith,
and witness for his Master, energetic and "conservatively progressive"
in promoting the growth of his church, he took little part
in the controversies of his day, but devoted himself unreservedly
to preaching the Gospel as it was read by John Hus, by the founders
of the ancient Unitas Fratrum, by the renewers of that Church in Herrnhut,
"Salvation by faith in Christ and real Christian living
according to the precepts of the Bible."
The Negro Mission.
John Toeltschig had been the diarist of the Moravian Congregation
in Savannah, as well as their treasurer and most able member,
and after he left very little record was kept of the daily occurrences.
A few stray letters have been preserved, but little of interest
appears therein, beyond the facts that the summer of 1738 was hot and dry,
and that the Moravians were not molested, although always conscious
of the under-current of antagonism.
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