Moravian Lives

The single Sister Martha Ashly.
She wrote of herself as follows:
I am born the 21st. Sept. 1736. at Stornhill near Wike.
& brought up in the engl. Church. In my Childhood I
heard the Brethren testyfying  testifying the tender Love of our
Saviour that I got a deep Impression therefrom in my
Heart; but this, by myn  my unsettled state of Mind, soon
faded away. Till the Time when Br. & Sistr. Held a School
for Girls errected  erected, there our Savr. came so powerfully on
my Heart, that I could from the Bottom of my Heart weep
to him, to make me a happy Child. I never shall forget
the blessed Time among us Children, especialy  especially what feelings