Moravian Lives

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bloody Sacrifice, and feel his kind and forgiving
heart towards me, I should be inconsolable. He owns
me poor as I am, and his precious atoning blood is
my never failing consolation.
About the time of my first marriage I received a Letter
from my late Father in Holstein wherein he asked me in a 
very solemn manner, whether I intended to come home, for 
if I did not, he would settle all his property upon my
only Sister, according to the Kings edict, whereby all those
who left Denmark and joined the Brns Congn abroad,
were end off from all right of possessing any part of their inherit-
-ance. I wrote him a dutiful answer, and told him, that I
had given up all these things, before I ever left my native
country, and he was at full liberty, to dispose of his property,
as he should think best; adding, that having found the
Salvation of my soul in our blessed Redeemer and his atoning
Sacrifice, I found it no hard matter to part with every
thing else; and being now joined to a people, owned by
our dear Saviour as his, tho' despised by the world, and
being also engaged to serve him in his vineyard, I could
not think of deserting the cause and service of so good
and gracious a Lord, on any account whatever. This
Letter reconciled my Father entirely to me, and he wrote
me a very kind answer, accompanied with a present
in money, and a few weeks After he departed this
life, and as I was told, in a happy manner. On