31st December:
Br. Rauch preached with feeling and with blessing. After the sermon there was no other service except the Speaking [18]. We passed the evening happily together. I received another packet of letters from Europe and many of the dearest bits of news. With emotion I recalled the Watchnight in Bethlehem and everything that the Savior had done for me in the previous year, closing the year as a sinner and blessed.
1753 January
1st January:
I preached today in the palpable Presence of His Wounds. After that was a short Communicants’ and Absolution Quarter Hour Devotion during which old Brother Goepfert and his wife were consecrated by the laying on of hands with many tears for their first reception of [the Holy Communion] in the Congregation. After this was the enjoyment of the Body and Blood of the Lord with an incomparable feeling. When everything was over, the Brethren and Sisters took their leave; Br. Johann Schmidt traveled in company with his Brethren and Sisters to Donegal, but Br. Rauch to Heidelberg.
2nd January:
We began school, using the method as it is set up in Donegal and Heidelberg and it went to the mutual satisfaction of us all. We continued with it the [3rd, 4th...]
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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