Moravian Lives

to such a change of life and climate, and an ac-
count of the poor State of her health she found it
no easy task to learn a new language in short
this proved a new trial to her in all respects.
But she looked up to Him, who remembers
his Servants and handmaids in affliction,
who has numbered all their days and noted them
down in his book; and whenever it appeared
to her as if she was entirely useless, she pos-
sessed her Soul in patience and looked for-
ward to the time, when she hoped to be Ser-
viceable and active.
Meanwhile the Cough she had had before,
increased and she fell into a gradual decline.
We made two short trials, whether she might
be helped by a change of air, which did not
answer our expectations, and when we were
about making a third trial, a fit of illness,
which seized myself, prevented it entirely.
Many a time we both have taken the recove-
ry of her health, as an important matter for
us, into our most Serious consideration, and
not knowing what to do, we have recom-
mended it to our Savior jointly in fervent prayer
& with many tears; which being
answered by a most comfortable experience
of the peace of God, we could take all the