Moravian Lives

and how he observed their ways, with a view to save
them, and bring them to himself. These words flew like
lightening  lightning into my soul, and a flood of tears gushed out of
my eyes, and it was as if my heart would break. The
people that stood around me, looked at me with surprize  surprise,
but I instantly left the Church, and hastened home, where
I continued weeping and lamenting my woeful condition,
and asking for mercy, of which I also felt some refreshing
hopes. My companions perceiving this change in me,
attempted to laugh and banter me out of my supposed folly.
but being disappointed they gradually forsook my
company, which I was very glad of. In this state of
mind, between great anxiety and some hopes, I re-
-mained about 4 weeks, till one morning when I felt
my condition unbearable to me, I kneeled down and
laid (with broken words and sighs) my very wretched
state of heart before our dear Saviour, and implored him
to have mercy upon me, a miserable sinner, and at
that moment he manifested himself to my heart as
wounded and bleeding to death on the Cross also for me,
and forgave me all my sins, and it was really to me
as tho' I had seen him bodily hanging on the Cross full
of blood and wounds in a dying condition, it is im-
-possible for me to describe, what I then felt I threw
myself prostrate before him and wetted the ground
with my tears of love and gratitude, and felt my