The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 #222045

Very much the same line of argument may be ap plied to the first attempt of the Moravian Church to establish a settlement on the American Continent. The story is usually passed over by historians in a few short paragraphs, and yet without the colony in Georgia, the whole history of the Renewed Church of the Unitas Fratrum would have been very different. Without that movement the Moravian Church might never have been established in Eng land, without it the great Methodist denomination might never have come into being, without it the American Moravian provinces, North or South, might not have been planned. Of course Provi dence might have provided other means for the accomplishment of these ends, but certain it is that in the actual development of all these things the unsuccessful attempt in Georgia, 1735 to 1740, played a most important part.