Hagen therefore went to the home of John Brownfield,
who shared his views, and made him very welcome, and from there
carried on his work among the residents of Savannah and Purisburg.
Whitefield returned to Pennsylvania in November, 1740, nursing his wrath
against Hagen, and finding Boehler to be of the same mind, he peremptorily
ordered the Moravians to leave his land. Neighbors interfered,
and cried shame on him for turning the little company adrift
in the depth of winter, and he finally agreed to let them stay for a while
in the log cabin which was sheltering them while they were building
the large stone house. The opportune arrival of Bishop Nitschmann
and his company, and the purchase of the Bethlehem tract,
soon relieved them from their uncomfortable position,
and later the Nazareth tract was bought from Whitefield,
and the work they had begun for him was completed for their own use.
Whitefield, in after years, rather excused himself for his first harshness
toward the Moravians, but a letter written by him to a friend in 1742,
is a good statement of the armed truce which existed among
the great religious leaders of that day.
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