It seemed as if minute sectarian division and subdivision was to be forced upon American Christianity as a law of its church life.
Diplomacies ended, the synods of Holland took up their work with real munificence.

Large funds were raised, sufficient to make every German Reformed missionary in America a stipendiary of the classis of Amsterdam; and if these subsidies were encumbered with severe conditions of subordination to a foreign directory, and if they begot an enfeebling sense of dependence, these were necessary incidents of the difficult situation--_res dura et novitas regni_.

The most important service which the synods of Holland rendered to their American beneficiaries was to find a man who should do for them just the work which Muehlenberg was already doing with great energy for the Lutherans.

The man was Michael Schlatter.

If in any respect he was inferior to Muehlenberg, it was not in respect to diligent devotion to the business on which he had been sent.