The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . orcement was a company of pious Moravians, whothough poor in this worlds goods, came well supplied with Bibles andhymn-books, and what is better, they had a treasure laid up in received them gladly. They made a little settlement, andcalled it, Ebenezeb. ; and they raised a column of stone, in tokenof their gratitude to God, who had brought them safely to these endsof the earth. General Oglethorpe bears a great l
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . orcement was a company of pious Moravians, whothough poor in this worlds goods, came well supplied with Bibles andhymn-books, and what is better, they had a treasure laid up in received them gladly. They made a little settlement, andcalled it, Ebenezeb. ; and they raised a column of stone, in tokenof their gratitude to God, who had brought them safely to these endsof the earth. General Oglethorpe bears a great love to the servantsand children of God, wrote the pastor of Ebenezer to his men from England visited this peaceful little colony, and lovedits interests. Wesley came over, and for two years lived and laboredhere ; and it was the head-quarters of many a band of missionaries,who went forth to the savage tribes, and told the story of the Saviourslove in the wigwams of the forest. It was also blessed by the preach-ing and labors of Whitefield ; and here he founded an asylum for poororphans, in whose welfare good people both in England and America took. Genl. James Oglethorpe. 895 The Moravians. 897
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