24 Indian tribes, and at Bethlehem. Be this as it may, he often found a lukewarmness manifested when he should have received zeaIons[counciland efficient aid. Scarcely had the echoes of the war whoop of the previous border war died away when a new disturbing element arose. British emissaries induced the Monseys at Schoenbrunn to throw off their allegiance as Christian converts; They then entered a plot to forsake the mission, to join the hostile Indians ■ , and to capture and send away the missionaries. Zeisberger, who was then at Lichtenan, hearing of the conspiracy hastened to Schoenbrunn. and on his arrival found the town in possession of the conspirators, the missionaries who had been left in charge having fled. On the 19th of August he called together as many converts as could be rallied, and taking the road to Lichtenan via Gnadenhutten, left Schoenbrunn in the hands of the deserters. To show that moral courage would have been the only thing necessary to have kept the Monseys faithful, we only need to state that when less than a year after they came raiding around Lichtenan, they were brought back to the fold by the earnest- ______ J
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