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leave to go to the Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi>, which I intended soon
to do, I went first to visit my Parents once more, who
lived 130 Miles from <placename>Copenhagen</placename>, particularly for the
sake of my Mother, who really loved our Saviour.
I told her of the Call I had in my heart to devote
myself entirely to our Saviour, who had done so very
much for me, and to the Brethren's Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> in <placename>Germany</placename>,
<emotion>she wept very much</emotion> but went and fetched her old
pocket book, and took out a paper she had wrote 
when she was pregnant with me, the contents --
whereof were, that her Child yet unborn, might be-
-come the entire property of our Saviour <add>Lord</add>, and she
dedicated it to Him alone. she then told me that
painful as it was to her to part with me, being her
only son, and to see me no more in this world,
yet she looked upon what I had told her, as the
fulfillment of what she had told at that time asked
of our Lord. She upon this gave her consent and
motherly blessing to my going to the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn's</hi></hi> Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> con-
-cerning which I gave her as full an information as
I could. <emotion>She shed a flood of tears, to which mine
were joined with great tenderness.</emotion> Our conversation
could not be forgotten by me, and we continued
our correspondence by Letter till her happy departure
to our d<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">r</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> Saviour. She told me before we parted