Wagner occupied a room cut off from the kitchen.
In February, 1775, Frederick William Marshall, Agent of the Unitas Fratrum
on the Wachovia Tract in North Carolina, (with headquarters at Salem)
visited Georgia to inspect the Moravian property there,
accompanied by Andrew Broesing, who joined Mueller and Wagner
in their missionary work. It had been suggested that the Moravians preach
in a church at a little place called Goshen, near "Knoxborough",
a church which had been built by subscriptions of Germans and English
living in the neighborhood, and had been used occasionally
by a preacher from Ebenezer.
At this time the Salzburgers were in a very bad condition.
Bolzius had died in 1765, and Rabenhorst and Triebner,
who shared the pastorate, were greatly at variance,
so that the entire settlement was split into factions.
Dr. Muehlenberg, "the father of Lutheranism in Pennsylvania",
had come to settle the difficulties, and heard with much displeasure
of the plan to have the Moravians preach at Goshen. He declared, --
"I doubt not, according to their known method of insinuation,
they will gain the most, if not all the remaining families in Goshen,
and will also make an attempt on Ebenezer, for their ways
are well adapted to awakened souls.
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