Scripto – Moravian Lives

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you and your family."---- knowing herself once from medi-
tation, she asked what day it was, & being bold it was
the sabbath day, she explained with amimation: "Oh!
it is a blessed thing to die on the sabbath, and no enter
into an eternal sabbath."---- Shortly after it was
proposed to sing with her; she said: oh! you! do"----
and being asked to choose a verse, she gave out:
"O then the sole defence and aid and but owing to the
indistinctness of her voice only a few words were gath-
ered and being it could not be found at the hine. The foll-
owing was then selected: Jesus at my dispolution and "
when she said, "yes that will do." It was then hardly
sang and partly sang out, but she maintained a hea--
venly composure, and often begged those around her
not to weep for her, for she was happy. Once or twice
she said, "perhaps the Doctor is mistaken. I am
too strong to die, I do not feel as if I were dying."
But about two hours and a half before her departure
she said placidly: "Now I feel a change, it will not
be long now." and then she betook herself again to
comfort those around her, & especially her sorrowing
partner. To him she said, with tender affection:
"the lord will support you & supply all your wants,
I know he will, for I have prayed for you"--- He replies
"yes my dear I know he will, but it is hard to part
with you so soon."----"O! yes,"she answered, it is hard