25th February:
About 10 o’clock I preached emphatically and with true feeling and a burning of
my heart on the Gospel Lesson of the day. Nowhere have I seen more joy than was here today. It was a large gathering. My heart was quite open. One perceived clearly and felt that it was very blessed. In the afternoon I also held the Communion Quarter Hour Devotion spoke on the Text for the Day.
26th February:
Brother Neubert kept school. The children were very lively and the school itself sweet and blessed. In the evening I held the usual Quarter Hour Devotion for the Communicant Brethren and Sisters and spoke on the regular Congregational Text. After the Quarter Hour I took leave of the Brethren and Sisters. Each of them expressed their tender love and thanked me so heartily for everything that I had done that I was quite ashamed.
The old 94 year old Father wept and said if only I could stay for another few months it would not be to long for him for he had enjoyed my company and that even though he couldn’t understand me [38] his heart still had a constant blessed feeling, especially in the services.
Because the above mentioned Lovefeast was brought up again, we had them told that they had just had one a couple of weeks ago and would have another when unexpected visitors came soon, so that they should be content until then and this came to pass.
38. He must have not spoken German
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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