23rd January:
Although I began the school in the morning and afternoon I let them keep it completely after that. They do it right well and can find their way around better and more easily because they have already been instructed in the main points by Brother Gottschalk. The children are quite lively and happy.
24th January:
In the afternoon they had a Singstunde instead of school. They have this in Heidelberg on Thursday, the same in Donegal, in Quittapahilla on Friday, and here in Warwick on Wednesday afternoon. The Singstunde has become well beloved since the children here in the whole country cannot sing or sing badly. During this they are also catechized in song. Until now they have been held everywhere with marked blessing and feeling.
25th & 26th January:
[School] followed its order right sweetly
27th January:
Visited the Georg Klein and [Georg?] Schnell families and by the way spent the day in a Sabbath sort of way.
28th January:
About 11 o’clock preached on I John 4:10 with marked blessing. After the sermon was the Quarter Hour Devotion for the Lord’s Supper and after that a right emotional and blessed Lovefeast [26] with the single men. There are some good people among them.
26. The lovefeast, the Agape meal, not the Eucharist
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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