Like Spangenberg he was a highly educated man, and an able leader,
fitted to play an important part in the Church of his adoption.
In December, 1737, he was ordained at Herrnhut by the bishops,
David Nitschmann and Count Zinzendorf, and in later years he, too,
became a bishop of the Unity.
On the 22nd of February, Boehler and his companions
called on Gen. Oglethorpe, who at first supposed they were simply going over
to join the Savannah congregation. Boehler explained that Richter,
who spoke French as well as German, had come as the Agent of the Moravians,
in accordance with the suggestion made by the Trustees to Bishop Nitschmann
in 1736; that Wenzel Neisser was going on an official visitation to America,
especially to the West Indies; and that he and Schulius were the missionaries
promised by Count Zinzendorf for work among the negroes in Carolina.
The General courteously invited them to confer with him further,
either by letter or in person, and offered to take them with him,
as he expected shortly to sail for Georgia with his regiment.
Later, when they wished to come to a definite agreement with Oglethorpe,
who represented the "associates of Dr.
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