Moravian Lives

it pleased our Savior to call her dear
Husband into his everlasting rest.
The circumstances she was left in added
greatly to her distres  distress  March 2d 1802
she was safely delivered of a healthy boy.
The symptoms of a consumption which
had appeared during her pregnancy, now
increased in the most rapid manner; her
speedy dissolution was evident to all around
her, that she herself, was very unwilling
to believe it: she once broke out into these
words: "Our Savior will surely never
deal thus with me, to take me from
my dear children the eldest not 3 years
old": the struggles of her mind on this
account were beyond description: about
the middle of March our merciful Savior
granted her resignation to his divine
will. Upon being visited by a friend
she expressed herself in the following
manner: "I am now not only resigned
but longing to go to our Savior: and
feel I can give my dear Children up
into the hands of Him who has