Moravian Lives

be remember'd by me as a distinguished day
of blessing. I mean the 4th of May, when it was
50 Years since the single Sisters had made this
first Covenant. When we kept the Lord's Sup-
per at the close of the day, and I renewed that
Covenant with our Savior, which I had made
so often with him, to seek for nothing in the
world, but how I might be His with soul &
body, with an earnest desire, that each drop
of blood might be devoted to Him; I felt the
peace of God in such a manner, that I was
fully assured, He himself had seated this Co-
venant and that nothing should pluck me
from his hands. In this blessed hour I de-
sired to depart and to be with Christ, lest
I should be disturbed again in this happi-
ness.
God be praised for all the grace, He has
bestowed upon me while in the single Sisters
Choir. Admidst all my wants & failings,
which bowed me in the dust and made me
appear as a great Sinner before Him, I could
hartily rejoice over my lot of grace, and had
no other wish, than to continue in this course
all my life.
In 1786 the marriage to my present husband
was proposed to me, and having duly consider'd