Moravian Lives

In the year 1769 I was favoured with some
precious opportunities in attending weekly on
Tuesday evenings a private meeting at the Rev
Mr Kingdow's, a Baptist Minister. In these
meetings which were opened with a hymn & a
prayer, a text of Scripture was expounded in an
evangelical manner by some of the Ministers &
Members present, which often proved a real
blessing to my heart. I still attended pub-
lic worship in the Church of England, into
whose communion I had been initiated from
my infancy, I usually was a monthly guest
at the Holy Communion under a deep sense of
my own unworthiness.
It was towards the close of my abode in
Frome that Crank's History of the Brns mission
among the Greenlanders was put into my
hands by a man in my service who was a mem
ber of the small Brns Society at that time (in the
year 1771) in Frome, under the care of the late Br
Hn Jacob Rogers. The natural history of Green-
land afforded me much pleasure & instruc-
tion; but when I proceeded to the history of the
Mission, my heart was filled with amazement
& joy at the powerful work of the Holy Ghost on