Moravian Lives

3d. The Single Br. Nils Paulsen. He has left the following
Account of his Path thro time. "I was born at Tondern in the
Dutchy of Hollstein the 1st. of July 1708 from the age of 14
My Parents put me out to service. For three Winters together
I keept  kept School for little Children, and Summers I work'd for
the Farmers. In the Year 1729 I came to a Village not far
from Flensburg, where I keept  kept School 2 Years. From my tender
=est Infancy I frequently felt the drawings of the Holy ghost in
my heart, but did not then understand what it was. Of thines
when I read in the Bible it was plain to me that the lives and
Manners of Christians in our days was not suited to the Bible
and I secretly wish'd to become a true Christian, such as are
described in Holy Scripture. In the Year 1731 I was taken into
a Merchants Service at Flensburg, and continued there 4 Years.
Hitherto I had lived pretty much in Innocence and Simplicity,
but now I had an Oppertunity  Opportunity to become acquainted with many
sorts of People, and might have easily been drawn into a 
worldly and sinful Life, had not an Invisible hand protected
me. At length I was no longer Satisfied to live at Flensburg
and went to Coppenhagen to seek my fortune, tho I knew not
in what, I should find it, but it happen'd that I came pre
=sently to a Brewer to learn the Busness  Business, in which I made
so much Progress that in less then 3 years I was able to carry