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great Comunion August 13<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>. 1727, and I begged the Lord Jesus,
with many Tears to think also of me. I went here to
School to Mr. Krumpa, who often told us that he loved the
Lord Jesus, because he had shed his Blood for us. This excited
in me a Confidence to our Savior that he probably had also
shed his Blood for me, and would have Mercy upon me. At the
Time when in Herrnhut the great Awakening among the Children
began, he asked once his Scholars: Whether they also would love
our Savior and give him their Hearts, so that He might wash them
wih his Blood? With those who expressed a Desire for it, he
made a Covenant, to love Him above all Things who loved us
first. Upon which Occasion He in whose Eyes we were precious
walked certainly in our Midst, and none of us knew what had hap
pened unto us. It occasioned a great Joy in Herrnhut, that our 
Savior had also graciously visited the Children in Berthelsdorf.
We went and prayed together during an inexpressible Feeling of the
Nearness of Jesus.
     My Parents moved soon after to Herrnhut, where we had
it outwardly very pinching and hard. But I must say to the 
Praise of our Savior, that I could suit myself pretty well into
poor Circumstances, for I had left my Mother Country with
no other Intention, than to be satisfied with Bread and Water.
But the Holy Ghost begun a new Work in me. I learned to know
our Savior as the Friend of poor Sinners; he forgave me 
the Sin of Not believing in Him and His Merit, and showed me my

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Name engraven into his Hands. Now happy did my Heart
feel when he cleared it up to me, that His Sufferings, his Death
and Bloodshedding had also happened for my sake, and that I was
his Property. I could not sufficiently contemplate our Savior
in his Sufferings Beauty, whereby all external Troubles and
Difficulties were made quite easy to me. In January 1729
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