The news that came to him from the "economies" that he had planted in the forests of Pennsylvania was such as to fill his generous soul with joy.

In the communities of Nazareth and Bethlehem was renewed the pentecostal consecration when no man called anything his own.

The prosperous farms and varied industries, in which no towns in Pennsylvania could equal them, were carried on, not for private interest, but for the church.

After three years the community work was not only self-supporting, but sustained about fifty missionaries in the field, and was preparing to send aid to the missions of the mother church in Germany.

The Moravian settlements multiplied at distant points, north and south.