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I was a stranger, and knowing by my dress, that
I was a student, of whom the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> at that time were
afraid, as all the religious Students were Pietists, and
no friends of the Brethren, I was refused admittance,
but I begged very earnestly for our Saviour's sake to
be admitted. The person I spoke to <emotion>seemed moved,</emotion> and
went into the house to ask for me, and returned with
leave for me to enter, <emotion>which gave me great joy.</emotion> <persname>B</persname><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi></hi><persname>
Praetorious</persname> kept the meeting and spoke with
grace upon our Saviour's bloody sweat in the garden.
This discourse and the singing which followed and 
which heated of our Saviour's Sufferings, <emotion>affected me
to such a degree, that I cannot express it in words</emotion>
and thought, "now I have found the people with 
whom I will live and die. The next day I went
to the house of <persname>B</persname><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi><persname> Praetorious</persname>, and knocked at
his parlor door, which he opened himself, and I
saw a company of B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> sitting in a circle in the
room. He wanted to excuse himself from <sic>leting</sic>  <corr>letting</corr>
me come in, and said they were busy, but I told
him I was come for a blessing, and wished to 
disclose my whole heart to him. Upon this he desired
me to come in, which I did, and seated myself 
among the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi>, but perceiving them all to be 
silent on my account, I began to speak and told