"Where the spirit of God is
in any great degree, there will be union of avail, tho' there may be
difference in sentiments. This I have learnt, my dear Brother,
by happy experience, and find great freedom and peace in my soul thereby.
This makes me love the Moravian Brethren tho' I cannot agree with them
in many of their principles. I cannot look upon them as willful deceivers,
but as persons who hazard their lives for the sake of the Gospel.
Mr. Wesley is as certainly wrong in some things as they,
and Mr. Law as wrong also. Yet I believe both Mr. Law and Mr. Wesley
and Count Zinzendorf will shine bright in Glory. I have not given way
to the Moravian Brethren, nor any other who I thought were in the wrong,
no, not for one hour. But I think it best not to dispute
when there is no probability of convincing."
Hagen remained in Savannah until February, 1742, when he went to Bethlehem,
accompanied by Abraham Bueninger, of Purisburg, who entered
the Moravian ministry in 1742, and labored among the Indians,
the white settlers, and in the West Indies.
Nine more residents of Georgia followed the Moravians to Bethlehem in 1745,
John Brownfield, James Burnside and his daughter Rebecca,
Henry Ferdinand Beck, his wife Barbara, their daughter Maria Christina,
and their sons Jonathan and David, all of Savannah,
and Anna Catharine Kremper, of Purisburg.
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