Moravian Lives

Meanwhile my Father was married a second
time and Gnadau being fixed upon as his fu_
ture place of abode: it was thought proper,
that he should take his Children with him,
both for his assistance & for their further edu_
cation. March 17th 1770 we arrived in Gna_
dau. This place was then in its first begin_
ing; not only the outward Subsistance was
difficult, but there was also a want of spiri_
tual encouragement, which made me regret
Herrnhut very much & occasioned some re_
missness in my course. But when the first
6 single Sisters arrived at Gnadau & with them
a Laboress of a motherly heart, who took parti_
cular care of me: I experienced a blessed revi_
val and March 20th 1771 I was admitted to
the h. Com.n which proved a great blessing
to me. In November 1772 my dearly beloved
Father departed happily in the 68th Year of
his Age. I attended him much in his last
illness. His hearty and childlike prayers to
our Savior, when he imagined to be alone,
his anointed conversation about the bitter
Sufferings and death of Jesus and even his
talk when absent in his mind, testifying
that his heart was full of this matter, left
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