Moravian Lives

the Houses & Lands at Pilgerruh, and we remained
thither in 1750. This business proceeding but slow
-ly, I went before with my Child to Herrnhut in
Company of Br. & Sr. Grasman, and arrived then
Sepr. 27th 1751 with the remarkable text "Thy
"right hand, O Lord doth wonders." Exod. 15.6. 
What I felt at the sight of this dear Congn. I
cannot describe: tears of Love & gratitude flow
-ed at his feet, who thus graciously had heard
my prayers. Jany. 26.1752 I had the favor to
be recieved  received into the Congn., by wch. opportunity
I surrendered myself anew with Soul & Body
to my Savior as his property; & July 25th the
same year I enjoyed for the first time in the
Congn in company with my dear Husband
the Body & blood of Jesus in the H. Communion
but the joy and pleasure we felt in being now
in the midst of a Congn of Jesus, which we
had so ardently longed for, was soon interrupted
by the departure of my dear Husband to our
Savr. Decr. 31st. in the same year. he rejoiced
at departing, that I and our Childn. were in
the Congn, the latter in the Childns. Oeconomy  Economy
but his loss proved very painful to me, and
nothing could have comforted me, but the