Lutheran landmarks and pioneers in America : a series of sketches of colonial times . ge revenues fromtolls. This causeway still forms an important link in theSavannah-Augusta Road. The people in the colonylived in comfortable homes, surrounded by trees andflowers. The houses were usually one and a half storieshigh, with overhanging roof in front and often in back,which formed comfortable and convenient porches. Prosperity, too, was enjoyed in all educational were built alongside of every church and teachersemployed for each one. The pastors assisted in the schoolwork, teaching
Lutheran landmarks and pioneers in America : a series of sketches of colonial times . ge revenues fromtolls. This causeway still forms an important link in theSavannah-Augusta Road. The people in the colonylived in comfortable homes, surrounded by trees andflowers. The houses were usually one and a half storieshigh, with overhanging roof in front and often in back,which formed comfortable and convenient porches. Prosperity, too, was enjoyed in all educational were built alongside of every church and teachersemployed for each one. The pastors assisted in the schoolwork, teaching when regular teachers could not be securedand imparting religious instruction in all the schools atall times. Some of their schoolmasters became prominentmen in the colony and province in after years. Vigera,the well-known teacher in the parochial schools of Phila-delphia, began his career as teacher at Ebenezer. , the surgeon of the colony, assisted as teacher andlaid the foundation of the education of the young manwho himself became a teacher in the colony and later 132. A Salzburger Home PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY AMONG SALZBURGERS was elected the first governor of Georgia under the con-stitution. His name was John Adam Treutlen. Wertschand Waldhauer, two of the best informed men whenMuhlenberg was in the colony in 1774, had both beenteachers in their earlier days. But above all the Salzburgers lived in the enjoymentof spiritual prosperity. The number of churches hadincreased to four. In addition to these, services were heldby the pastors as often as possible at Purysburg andSavannah. At Ebenezer they conducted services everySunday two or three times and held an evening serviceevery day. Communion was celebrated every six the churches erected to accommodate the people livingon the plantations to the north and south of Ebenezer,services were held every other Sunday and several timesduring the week. Farmers left their fields when the churchbell rang and attende
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