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After All, Sharing the Gospel Shouldn't Endanger Your Neighbor's Dental Work.
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1. Not Margaret Grundt (as in Pearson or SPCK sources). W. Germann, of England were (Hanoverian) cousins. Francke's former student
Missioniir Christian Friedrich Schwartz-Sein Legen und Wirken aus Anton Wilhelm Boehme served as a link between them and between
BriefdesHalleschen Missionsarchivs (Erlangen, 1870), pp. 3-4: "Meine Francke and the newly formed SPCK.
lieben Eltern sind gewesen George Schwartz und Maria Grunerin." 4. These are found mostly in his letters to authorities of the Waisenhaus
2. Copies of lecture notes he took while listening to Baumgarten, (orphanage) in Halle and of the SPCK in London, later printed in the
Michaelis, and Freylinghausen were long preserved by the Society famous "Halle Reports."
for Promoting Christian Knowledge in London. 5. Thomas Robinson, The Last Days of Bishop Heber (Madras: Vepery
3. Circumstances of collaboration between Copenhagen, London, and Mission Press, 1829), appendix, "Legacy and Memorials to C. F.
Halle are not entirely clear. The king of Denmark and Queen Anne Schwartz."