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of br. Christian J. Buch concerning his home missionary operation in Berthelsdorf and the surrounding country in Saxony, in the year 1852.

We have great reason to bless the Lord for his mercy shown to Berthelsdorf during the past year, in graciously extending his hand over us, warding off all harm and danger, and granting us a profusion of blessings. While the two villages in our vicinity, Chemnitz and Strawalde were visited by destructive hailstorms, one of which destroyed a good portion of the crops at the former, and set fire to a house in the latter place, we were mercifully spared. During the past year we were moreover exempt from the Scourge of the potato-rot, with which we had been afflicted for several successive years, and were blest on the whole with a good crop of this indispensible necessary of life.

It is at all times delightful to witness the peaceful departure of an anxious soul out of this world, and were we favored to witness such a sight, in the death of the married sister Christiane Muhe. The decrepitude of her frame, broken down by hardships and sickness, often led her anxiously to look forward to her dissolution, and being truly desirous of consolation, she gladly imbibed it, and cheerfully obeyed to the advice which we gave her, to apply, as a poor sinner, to the Savior of sinners, for the purification from sin, through the power of his blood. She entered a blissful eternity with the conviction and heartfelt consolation, that all her sins were remitted by the great victor over sin and the world.

The knitting and sewing school has been uninterruptedly continued. At present there are thirty-two girls frequenting the same. Several sisters at Herrnhut, together with sister Roemer of this

place, alternately devote their time, to the instruction of these children, closing the same by a scripture meditation.-Eighty-six children at present frequent the spinning school at Berthelsdorf. The majority of them being boys, it is no very easy matter for the teacher, to preserve discipline and order among them. Still we put our trust in the Lord, more especially in regard to providing the requisite funds towards maintaining this institution, which just now, appears to be rather a difficult matter. From twenty to thirty children voluntarily attend the religious Sunday meetings kept by the spinning teacher, who, from the behavior and occasional expressions of his pupils, has been led to indulge the hope, that his labor has not been in vain in the Lord. We feel exceedingly grateful for the continued countenance and support afforded to this training school by a number of our brethren and sisters. Besides their regular contributions in money, they made considerable Christmas presents, consisting among others, in useful articles of dress, to our female Sunday scholars on the 19th, and to our little spinnerson the 23d of December. The poorest among them were the happiest recipients, since without these gifts, they would not have received any Christmas presents at all. May the Lord graciously reward all their benefactors for their kindness.

One day in the month of August the school was honored by a visit from her majesty, the queen of Saxony, who every where takes a lively interest in the prosperity of all institutions of Saxony, got up for the benefit of youth. She expressed her approbation of all the arrangements to the spinning master, during her short stay in the room, which had been adorned with festoons of flowers for the occasion.

Our first tour into the country, we took to Reichenau, in Upper Lusatia. There our diaspora people had kept a festive celebration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of their meeting, when they solemnly covenanted anew, to cleave to the Lord, who amidst so many changes had mercifully kept them together. They deeply regretted the untimely departure of the married brother Kiesling, who died in the full vigor of manhood, universally respected. It was a great comfort to the survivors to know, that he left this world fully prepared, in order to reap in his eternal home, the fruits of his faith. Even on his dying bed he continued to be a cheerful witness for Jesus, and fervently besought his wife faithfully to cleave to the Savior, and lead the children to him. He moreover exhorted all that called to see him, by no means to depart from the path of salvation, nor to suffer themselves to be drawn away froth the Savior, by the vain and perishable things of this world. Although we regret his loss the more, owing to his being a talented exhorter, and promising to become a valuable assistant to the minister, still we feel in some measure comforted by his peculiarly happy departure, which proved a blessing to many a