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and signed in 1755, we began to prepare for
building and in 3 years time the hall and
2 Choir houses for the sa? brn & srs were fini-
shed and sundry houses and gardens bought.
The congregation encreased so fast that the
number of souls ? amounted at the
end of 1760 to 202. December the 10th 1758.
the congn was settled by brother Johannes,
& the meeting hall concecrated, and In April
1761 having been releas'd from my office
by brother Risler, we sat out for Herrnhut
where we ^arrived after a difficult journey. arr
Thus far our late brother.
He stayed with his wife about a year in
Herrnhut from whence he was called to have
the care of the Congn at Dublin, where they
arrived in the som summer of of 1762, previous
to which they had brought their 3 sons to Cath
rineuwhatt?, to be educated in the childrens Oecy.
In 1767 he was called to Bedford to be
the Minister and Congn helper in that Congn
It is sufficiently known from the reports of
that Congn with wat what unction and grace he
served it. In 1775 he was called to the Synod
at Barby and ordain consecrated a Bishop
of the brethren's Church. Before he returned
to Bedford he visited his children in Uper-
Lusatia and Silivia and the Congn at Neu-
wied (where his former services are still remembe
red with gratitude). He returned from thence
by way of Teist? to Bedford, where he arrived
dec the 12th. From that time his strength de-
cayed and he grew mostly blind. In 1779
he got a stroke of the palsy which lamed his
right side. about a year after he had another
attack of the same disorder which showed
plainly that he was mean his end. He
behaved himself under all these afflictions
as a servant of Christ and expressed his
joy at the prospect of being soon at home
with the Lord, our in short he was in
last illness an edificiation and blessing to