Moravian Lives

The marryed  married B.r John Kopatshek went home the 11th
The following are his own Words.
I am born in Bohemia at the Village Radbori in the Cirle
of Czaslaw. My Vater who had some knowledge of the Word
of God, advised & brought me up, as much as in his Power &
according to his best Judgment to Religion & instructed me
that I must lern  learn to know our Lord Christ Jesus. After I
got the New Testament & other prostestant Books in my
Hand, I very often was touchd in my Heart & embarrasd
about my eternal Salvation. But as I couldn't see
how to come through in my Mother Country I soon resolvd
to emigrate cost what it will, only to get Liberty of 
Conciense & to enjoy my happyness  happiness according to my Wish.
For that reason I went 1734 from Bohemia & by good
Luck, came without molestation to Henersdorf, where
I Magister Waneck to the true blessing of my Heart heard
to preach. From thence I went to Berlin, but found there
nothing for my Heart & resolv'd to to go in my Mother
Country back again. However the restlessnes  restlessness of my Heart
                                                                                               persecuted