The Moravians still at Savannah came in a boat to welcome them,
and take them to their house, but Boehler was anxious
to see the scene of his future labors, and stayed in town only a few days,
leaving on the 21st for a tour through Carolina. Schulius accompanied him
all the way, and several others as far as the Indian town
where Rose was living with his wife and child. Here they talked
of many things regarding the Savannah Congregation,
but on the following afternoon the missionaries went on their way,
Zeisberger, Haberland, Boehner and Regnier accompanying them to Purisburg.
There Boehler and Schulius lodged with one of the Swiss
who had come to Georgia with Spangenberg and the first company.
His wife expressed the wish that the Moravians in Savannah
would take her thirteen-year-old daughter the following winter,
and give her instruction, for which she would gladly pay.
Boehler took occasion to speak to the couple about salvation and the Saviour,
and they appeared to be moved. Indeed this was the main theme
of all his conversations. To the owners of the plantations visited,
he spoke of their personal needs, and their responsibility
for the souls of their slaves; while to the slaves he told the love of God,
filling them with wonder, for most of them were newly imported
from the wilds of Africa, and suspicious even of kindness.
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