Moravian Lives

Suplement  Supplement to the 11th Week 1769.
Containing the Personals of the Widow Sister
Anna Magdalena Rollerin (formerly Schulzen:)
She has left the following Account of her path thro  through time:
I was born the 10th of March 1698 at Breslau.
In my tenderest Infancy I receivd such an Impression of the
fine Hymns which my Father was used to sing that I often
wish'd: Oh that I could but love my dear Lord Jesus with my
whole Heart; since he has suffer'd so much for me. As soon
as I had learnd to read, my Father keept  kept me stricktly  strictly to reading the
Bible, and explaind to me the most Necessary passages of Scripture,
and I often wish'd, particularly at reading the Narative  Narrative of our Saviours
Suffrings, that my whole Life, might be a Joy to the Lord Jesus.
In my 12th Year being admitted to the Lord Supper, our Saviour was
inly near my heart, and the Holy spirit took to me from that time
forward in so blessed a Manner, that during my single state I was
preserved from the Temptations of the World, and continued stedfast  steadfast
in my Childlike simplicity in Christ Jesus. In my 18th Year at my
Fathers earnest perswasion  persuasion, I married a Trader named Christian
Vogel. This Marriage was but of 2 Years Duration, and my only Son
soon follow'd the Father into Eternity. Meantime, I found that thro  through
my change of State, I had Cost pretty much of my former Happiness
and in my widdow  widow state, began to reflect thereon seriously, was
Ashamed and Humble, and my faithful Saviour forgave me all,
Vouchsated to give me the Sensce  Sense of his sweet nearness as formerly, so that
for near 3 Years I was a happy widdow  widow. After this I enterrd the Married State
a 2.d Time with M.r Andrew Roller. Connctor at 3duny
I had a very happy life with him which lasted 17 Years, and god bless'd in Poland.
us with 3 Sons and 3 Daughters, 2 of my Sons are yet living, The one
in Clergyman at Heiniz, the other a Surgeon in the Single Brns
House here. As I had a loving and sensible Husband, I thought I would
endeavour to lead a life that should please God, and did all I could to
serve him, but this my good intention brought me into such Confusion
that I scarce knew what I did. I read frequently in the Bible, and allthough  although
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