In the life of any individual, association, or nation, there will probably be
one or more occurrences which may be considered as success or failure
according to the dramatic features of the event and the ultimate results.
Of this the Battle of Bunker Hill is a striking example.
On the morning of June 17th, 1775, a force of British soldiers
attacked a small body of raw, ill-equipped American volunteers,
who had fortified a hill near Boston, and quickly drove them
from their position. By whom then was the Bunker Hill Monument erected?
By the victors in that first engagement of the Revolution? No,
but by proud descendants of the vanquished, whose broader view showed them
the incalculable benefits arising from that seeming defeat,
which precipitated the great struggle, forcing every man in the Colonies
to take a position squarely for or against the American Cause,
convinced the timid that only proper equipment would be needed
to enable the American army to hold its own against the foe,
and taught the British that they were dealing, not with hot-headed rebels
who would run at first sight of the dreaded "red coats", but with patriots
who would stand their ground so long as a charge of powder remained,
or gunstocks could be handled as clubs.

Very much the same line of argument may be applied to the first attempt
of the Moravian Church to establish a settlement on the American Continent.
The story is usually passed over by historians in a few short paragraphs,
and yet without the colony in Georgia, the whole history of the Renewed Church
of the Unitas Fratrum would have been very different. Without that movement
the Moravian Church might never have been established in England,
without it the great Methodist denomination might never have come into being,
without it the American Moravian provinces, North or South,
might not have been planned. Of course Providence might have provided