He died in London, April 20th, 1774,
having been there for a year on a visitation to the English congregations
of the Moravian Church.
Chapter VII. Conclusion.
Later Attempts in Georgia.
1740.
May 18th, 1740, John Hagen arrived in Savannah. He had come over
intending to go as missionary to the Cherokees, and his disappointment
in finding that the Moravians had abandoned Georgia is another example
of the enormous difficulty under which mission work was conducted
in those days, when the most momentous events might transpire
months before the authorities at home could be apprised of them.
Hagen had become very ill on the way from Charleston to Savannah,
and with none of his own people to turn to he bethought himself
of Whitefield's offers of friendship, and went to his house.
He was kindly received by those who were living there,
and though he went down to the gates of death the portals did not open,
and he rapidly regained his health.
Visiting Irene he found only a few Indian women, for Tomochichi was dead,
and the men were all on the warpath. The opportunity of going
to the Cherokees seemed very doubtful, for there were none living nearer
than three hundred miles, and distances looked much greater
in the Georgia forests than in his own populous Germany.
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