So he concluded to accept the kind offers of Whitefield's household,
and stay with them, making himself useful in the garden,
and doing such religious work as he was able. Several Germans
living in the town, who had learned to like the Moravians,
asked him to hold services for them, to which he gladly agreed.
He was much pleased with the prospect for work in Savannah,
where the people had been greatly stirred by Whitefield's preaching,
and he wrote to Herrnhut urging that two married couples be sent
to help reap the harvest, a request warmly seconded by Whitefield,
who had returned to Savannah on June 16th. Whitefield reported the Moravians
busily engaged in erecting a Negro school-house for him in Pennsylvania,
and told Hagen he would like to have the two couples come to assist him
in carrying out his large plans for Georgia.
But by the 14th of August this invitation had been withdrawn, Hagen had left
Whitefield's house, and had been refused work on Whitefield's plantation,
for fear that he might contaminate the Whitefield converts.
The trouble arose over a discussion on Predestination, --
not the first or last time this has happened, -- and the two men
found themselves utterly at variance, for Whitefield held
the extreme Calvinistic view, while Hagen argued that all men who would
might be saved.
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