Moravian Lives

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I was a stranger, and knowing by my dress, that
I was a student, of whom the Brn at that time were
afraid, as all the religious Students were Pietists, and
no friends of the Brethren, I was refused admittance,
but I begged very earnestly for our Saviour's sake to
be admitted. The person I spoke to seemed moved, and
went into the house to ask for me, and returned with
leave for me to enter, which gave me great joy. Br
Praetorious kept the meeting and spoke with
grace upon our Saviour's bloody sweat in the garden.
This discourse and the singing which followed and 
which heated of our Saviour's Sufferings, affected me
to such a degree, that I cannot express it in words
and thought, "now I have found the people with 
whom I will live and die. The next day I went
to the house of Br Praetorious, and knocked at
his parlor door, which he opened himself, and I
saw a company of Brn sitting in a circle in the
room. He wanted to excuse himself from leting  letting
me come in, and said they were busy, but I told
him I was come for a blessing, and wished to 
disclose my whole heart to him. Upon this he desired
me to come in, which I did, and seated myself 
among the Brn, but perceiving them all to be 
silent on my account, I began to speak and told