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bloody Sacrifice, and feel his kind and forgiving
heart towards me, <emotion>I should be inconsolable.</emotion> He owns
me poor as I am, and his precious atoning blood is
my never <add>failing</add> consolation.
About the time of my first marriage I received a Letter
from my late Father in <placename>Holstein</placename> wherein he asked me in a 
very solemn manner, whether I intended to come home, for 
if I did not, he would settle all his property upon my
only Sister, according to the Kings edict, whereby all those
who left <placename>Denmark</placename> and joined the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rns</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> abroad,
were end off from all right of possessing any part of their inherit-
-ance. I wrote him a dutiful answer, and told him, that I
had given up all these things, before I ever left my native
country, and he was at full liberty, to dispose of his property,
as he should think best; adding, that having found the
Salvation of my soul in our blessed Redeemer and his atoning
Sacrifice, I found it no hard matter to part with every
thing else; and being now joined to a people, owned by
our dear Saviour as his, tho' despised by the world, and
being also engaged to serve him in his vineyard, I could
not think of deserting the cause and service of so good
and gracious a Lord, on any account whatever. This
Letter reconciled my Father entirely to me, and he wrote
me a very kind answer, accompanied with a present
in money, and a few weeks After he departed this
life, and as I was told, in a happy manner. On