3rd February
Brother Rauch and I visited various families and everywhere were received wby parents and children with the greatest love and warmth. As in Quittapahilla and Donegal they wanted to keep me for a year. Through their children the parents receive blessing and say the children come home full of joy and are busy day and night with the things that they have heard and learned. When they [the children] recited something, in order to practice, they made the gestures with their hands as they had seen it in school. There is quite a strong movement among them.
4th February:
Preached at 11 o’clock with a sinner’s heart on the story of Mary Magdalene from Luke 7. After that held the Quarter Hour Devotion for the single men [27] and Brother Rauch held the Quarter Hour for those Received [into the Congregation]. After that all the Brethren and Sisters came and took hearty leave and were almost beside themselves because of their children. We still had many visitors in the evening. Then I spoke thoroughly with Nixdorfs and went peacefully to sleep.
5th February:
I took my leave early, but couldn’t depart earlier than 10 o’clock because of heavy rain. I was accompanied by Brother Rauch as far as old Father Riehm on Muddy Creek, where a sermon was planned for 1 o’clock. I arrived just at the right time and preached on John 7:37,38 with feeling and a burning heart. There were many people there and the power of the Wounds was clearly to be noticed. We spent the night and continued to visit with Jacob Riehm and his wife who used to be a Communicant Brother and Sister, speaking openly and from the heart with them.
27. He never says Single Brethren, Ledige Brueder, but “ledige Mannsleute” single male persons
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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