Moravian Lives

forever; nevertheless she was in her whole sickness very patient, and when anyone told her that she looked very poorly; said she I am to be sure but it is no Matter , I will bear it as well as I can it wll soon be over  and then I shallbe well: about a month before her Departure he  class sisters gave her a farewell Love feast, for which reason she was carried into another Room and there as long as she well could with her Class sisters  being very much pleased among them; this was the last Time she came out of the Sick Room before her Dissolution; When she was spoke with before the last Sacrament she expressed her longing and Desire for it,sayed  I should have been very glad to have been with our Saviour before this Time, but as I am still here, I shall be very glad to enjoy it once more, it will be the last and I shall soon after go to the Lamb: so she enjoyed this inestimable Favour for the last time in this dying Life on the  4th of this present Month with such eagerness , that she could scarce wait till the Time came, when she got the Bread she took it and eat it directly with such a Feeling and Eagerness (according  to her own expression) as Words cannot express.likewise when she drunk of the Cup it was as if she thought it is my last Time I will however satisfy the great Longing, which is my Heart: A few Days before her Departure her cough stopped, and she grew sensibly weaker;this alteration was one of the chief which happened to her  life the Night before she went,to whom she kept a hearty Band with that sister.who watched with her, to whom she spoke very prettily, thanking her for all what she had done for her;soon after she begun to alter so, that one could see that the Hour of her Departure was nigh at Hand; she called out very often for our Saviour to fetch her and not to let her stay much longer here;she often times stretched out her Arms, as if she would catch at something saying O He is my dear Saviour He is my dear Saviour, O come my Dearest Lamb and take me home