Moravian Lives

strict. At last we arrived at Maram upon the River Ocke, where 
we met with more friendly People,who looked upon & loved as par,
ticular good Christians & Children of God, & served as as well as
they could. We felt well among these People, & I believe they will be
counted among those to whom Jesus will say: I was sick and ye
have come to the highest Pitch, for he could not even move his
Tongue, & lay quite speech & senseless. The Creature begun now to
plead with the Creator, & I was quite at a Loss what to think or say, 
when I considered that the Departure of my Husband was so near
at Hand. But then in my greatest Trouble, & when I was at the
Brink of Despair, the loving Heart of Jesus interfered, & set Bounds
to the raging Waves; for our Savior gave Strength to my Husband
that he in some Measure recovered, so that, to my great Surprize Surprise he 
spoke fully with me about our Course hither to, & particularly about
this Journey, whereas he could not speak one Word before. He said
among the rest: Be not discouraged about these Circumstances; thou
knowest that our Savior already in 1738 gave Directions, that we
through Russia should go to Assia Asia, but the Enemy has thrown some
Obstacles in the Way, so that it was stopt, about which I never could
be satisfied, but now our Savr., with whom I have kept up on un,
interrupted Conexion, amidst my Weaknesses of Soul & Body has
satisfied me about it, by this that the russian Government itself
sends us now thither, so that we however shall see Asia, & sojourn in it.
My great Weakness is a natural Consequence of the great & sudden

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Alteration of my Way of Life hitherto, & belongs to the final Com,
pletion of my Sufferings. And it is a Grace to me, that also in
Sufferings I am made conformable to my best Friend. Our Savior
well certainly restore my Health so that I shall reach the Place of
our Destination. In Casan I shall probably go home to our Savior
but thote wilt go again to the Congrn. with thy Child, & with all our
Children enjoy there much Goodness & Mercy from our Savr. We
then pursued our Journey & my Husband recovered more & more,
yet I had to care for & nurse him like a Child. At last Apr 27th. 
1769 we arrived at Casan, having been three times in evident
Danger of our Lives, after we had entered the Borders of Asia. 
In Casan we found it better, than we expected. The People there
showed much Love & Respect to us, and even the Governor himself
behaved very friendly towards us. I often begged our Savior to
give us at least one Soul, where our Testimony of him might
find Entrance, & it was not a small Satisfaction to us, that
we could brave the Labour of the H. Ghost, with some Russians
and Turks. I wept & prayed much both on the Journey & particu,
larly here in behalf of the Inhabitants of this Country, & I must
own, that when I spoke right confidently with our Savior about it, he
gave me a very gracious Look, & the Assurance into my Heart
that a Light will yet spring up in this Country. Nov. 23rd. 1760
Br. Fritche departed this Life happily, & on the 9th. of the following
Month of Dec. my Husband followed him in the 63rd Year of his Age, &
entered into the Joy of his Lord, & everlasting Freedom & Peace after
a Captivity of more than 13 Years. I mentioned it directly to the Com,