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She arose to perform it, but Spener, as we know, had gone away the day before. This Spenersberg, about which Leonhard was not a little eager to know more when he shut the door of the apartment into which his host had ushered him for he must remain all night what was it? A colony, or a brotherhood, or a community, six years old.
"That means," said the good woman, hastening in at her husband's call, and reading the name with a pleased smile "that means that you belong to us. I thought you did. I am glad." Were these folk so intent on securing a convert that in these various ways they made the young stranger feel that he was not among strangers in this unknown Spenersberg?
They went farther to the east, and Spener led the way down the rough hillside until he came to a point whence the descent was less steep and difficult. There he paused. A beautiful view was spread before them. Little Spenersberg lay on the slope opposite: between ran the stream, which widened farther toward the east and narrowed toward the west, where it emptied into the river.
He would have fallen asleep just here with a pleasant thought but for the recollection of Wilberforce's letter, which startled him hardly less than the apparition of his friend in the moonlight streaming through his half-curtained window would have done. Is it always so pleasant a thought that for ever and ever a man shall bear his own company? But this Spenersberg?
He is satisfied when he lies down upon the bed, which awaited him, it seems, as he came hither on the way-train quite satisfied that Spener of Spenersberg must be a man worth seeing. Breathing beings possessed of ideas and homes here must have been handled with power by a master mind to have brought about this community, if so it is to be called, in six short years, thinks Leonhard.
In Spenersberg it is better that the poor and the old and the sick should be cared for in their homes, by their own households: there is no want here." "Will you read what I have been reading?" said Elise, hesitating, not willing yet to give up the project which looked so full of promise.
"I never before found myself in a place I should like to stay in always; so what does the rest signify?" answered Leonhard. "What's in a name?" "Not much perhaps, yet something," said Loretz. "We are all Moravians here. I was going to look in this book here for the names of your ancestors. I thought perhaps you knew about Spenersberg."
The furniture had all been made at the factory; the floor-mats were woven there; and one gazing around him might well have wondered to what useful or ornamental purpose the green willows growing everywhere in Spenersberg Valley might not be applied.
Instead of giving this direction, however, Loretz said, after a brief consultation with himself, "I don't know as there's another house in Spenersberg that ought to be as open as mine. I live here, sir. How long have you been listening?" "Not long enough," said Leonhard; and he passed through the gate, which had been opened for the minister, and now was opened as widely for him.
It must have been something for the Spenersberg folk to know that such a woman dwelt among them, yet probably two-thirds of her influence was unconsciously put forth and as unconsciously received.
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