God's provision and turnips

On their way to North Carolina, from Nazareth/Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Moravian pioneers met many people who had at least a vague notion of who the Moravians were. One was a “Free Negro, who is the only smith in these parts.” He understood German well, and he and his wife, a Scotch woman, had heard Moravians preach in Lancaster and Philadelphia. They welcomed the Moravians for they “loved people who spoke of the Saviour.” 

Later on they asked an old man by the name of  Muller to sell them some turnips, but “He

was so good as to make us a present of a nice quantity, and gave an invitation that any of our people passing this way should visit him. He had heard perhaps a hundred lies about the Brethren — that we were ‘bearded people,’ that we enjoined celibacy, etc. — and now learning the truth, the old man rejoiced, and took a friendly leave of us.”