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 and 5th January:
in the same way. The number of children might have been as large as in a country town if they all could have come, but since they all have so far to come, the number is seldom more than 17.
6th January:
I journeyed with Br. Beck across the Swatara and visited all our Brethren and Sisters there, both inside and outside the Hohl [sic] [19] , spending the night at Ludwig Born’s. How the Brethren and Sisters there rejoiced; it is indescribable.
7th January:
About 10 o’clock amid a blessed movement of hearts I preached to a great number of people on the Gospel for the day and baptized two little boys with the stream flowing from the Side of Jesus into His Death. Held the Children’s Lesson as well as the Quarter Hour Devotion for the Communicant and received Brethren and Sisters. They are right sweet people among whom I felt very happy. I departed for Quittapahilla about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, passing happily over the Swatara, arriving happily again at night in the home of our Brother and Sister in the school house there.
19. The word means “hollow” but I have been unable to clarify it further; it does not seem to be the Congregation at Bethel between Lickdale and Fredericksburg , which was not across the Swatara Creek from Lebanon
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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