ch, differing,
however, in its non-insistance upon a particular form of baptism. Twice
a year the members met in the Lord's Supper, to which all were welcomed
whose life was beyond reproach. In Holland they enjoyed the same
privileges as other sects, and had a following in Amsterdam, Haarlem,
Rotterdam, Leyden, etc.

It appeared that the Schwenkfelders had first addressed themselves to
these Collegiants, especially to Cornelius van Putten in Haarlem, and
Pieter Koker in Rotterdam, but when their need grew more pressing they
appealed to Count Zinzendorf. When he was not able to obtain for them
all they wanted, they turned again to the Collegiants, and were in
conference with them in Rotterdam. The Collegiants were very much
opposed to the Georgia Colony,--"the Dutch intensely disliked anything
that would connect them with England,"--and although Thomas Coram,
one of the Trustees, who happened to be in Rotterdam, promised the
Schwenkfelders free transportation (which had been refused Zinzendorf),
the Collegiants persuaded them not to go to Georgia. Their chief
argument was that the English Government sent its convicts to Georgia, a
proof that it was not a good land, and the Schwenkfelders were also told
that the English intended to use them as slaves.

Disturbed by this view of the case, the Schwenkfelders accepted an offer
of free transportation to Pennsylvania, where they arrived in safety on
the 22nd of September.

Spangenberg had wished to serve as their pastor in Georgia, thinking it
would give him opportunity to carry out his cherished wish to bear the
gospel message to the heathen, and he felt himself still in a measure
bound to them, despite their change of purpose, and at a somewhat later
time did visit them in their new home. There was some idea of then
taking them to Georgia, but it did not materialize, and they remained
permanently in Pennsylvania, settling in the counties of Montgomery,
Berks and Lehigh. Their descendents there preserve the customs of their
fathers, and are the only representatives of the Schwenkfelder form of
doctrine, the sect having become extinct in Europe.

Preliminary Steps.

While the exile of the Schwenkfelders was the immediate cause which
led Zinzendorf to open negotiations with the Trustees of the Colony
of Georgia, the impulse which prompted him involved far more than mere
assistance to them. Foreign Missions, in the modern sense of the word,
were almost unknown in Zinze