Bray" wished to be very sure that the doctrine and rules
of the Unitas Fratrum did not conflict with the Church of England,
but being assured by the Archbishop of Canterbury that he considered them
as agreeing in all essential points, they closed an agreement with Zinzendorf
whereby the Count received 30 Pounds with which to prepare "two Brethren
to reside for the instruction of the Negroes at such place in Carolina
as the said associates shall direct." The missionaries,
when they had entered upon their work, were to receive a salary,
"not exceeding thirty pounds a year," from the "associates".
For this missionary enterprise, so much to his liking, Zinzendorf appointed
"one of my chaplains, master Boehler," and "Schulius, a Moravian brother,"
who with Richter and Wenzel Neisser arrived in London, February 18th, 1738.
At the house of their friend Wynantz, the Dutch merchant,
they met John Wesley, who offered to secure them a pleasant,
inexpensive lodging near James Hutton's, where he was staying.
Peter Boehler had been a student at Jena when Spangenberg
was lecturing there, and was himself a professor at that seat of learning
when he decided to accept Zinzendorf's call to mission work,
and join the Moravians, with whom he had been for a long time in sympathy.
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