Johann
Gold (1678-1745)
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for tears of love and thankfulness. "I sit, said he, here in the bosom of the church, and eat and drink, and am nourished by Jesus' wounds, as a child on the mother's breast. One thing, said he, I could scarcely get over, I have wrote a full letter of deprecation to the church in Europe entreating them to forgive me all for the wound of Jesus sake. It laid exceedingly heavy upon me that I had caused them so much smart. Joseph and Mary comforted him heartily by letting him know that the church in Europe knew of his conversion to our Savior, in part, and promising to send them a full and special account of it the next opportunity. They assured him also that the church had kept nothing against him, and they would thank our Savior with joy that his soul was brought home and secured in the wounds of Jesus. From that time forwards he became weaker in body, and as the Brother Hencke, C. Demuth, Vetter, and Father Hauntch, they were all quickened and greatly rejoiced at the happiness he felt in the Wounds of the Lamb. At last on the 9th of April he sweetly fell asleep under this verse: "For he's thy herritage indeed etc. haveing sometime before rejoiced at the thoughts of his going soon to kiss and inly [?] greet the prints on his hands and feet."
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