23rd December:
I journeyed all the way to Quittapahilla, arriving to the pleasure of our Brethren and Sisters there. Br. Beck had gone over the Swatara to hold the holiday services for the Brethren and Sisters there.
24th December:
I preached on the Gospel, drawing in the Epistle Lesson as well, also held the other services and in the evening Br. Engel held a Singstunde. The Savior acknowledged it and His Presence was powerfully felt. We sat together until Midnight, recalling the Vigil of our Dear Hearts in Bethlehem with Grace and Feeling.
25th December:
I preached on the Festival Gospel to a formidable number with a tender feeling of my heart and the blessing out of the Little Manger moved among the hearers. After the sermon there was a general Children’s Lesson in genuine blessing and after that the Quarter Hour Devotion for the Communicant Brethren and Sisters at which the main thing announced to them was that the Holy Communion will be celebrated 31st December and how it would be held. In the evening there was again a blessed Singstunde.
26th December:
I preached on the Gospel for the Day. After the sermon I announced to them that about noon on the 27th the two children of our dear Br. Gerhard Etter would be baptized in his house because they are weak and live eleven miles from the Meeting House.
Brother Bader's Diary
of his Journey and Visit to the Schools in the Country from
16th November 1752 to
28th February 1753
Translated by Pastor Roy Ledbetter
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