# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 03 18_S120
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For also the gifts of grace
For my pilgrim time,
These shall I have, all of them,
They are prepared for me:
Courage, joyfulness and strength,
Humility and valor,
For each of my works,
For every righteous strife.

Where grace is, there is also honor
Before all the saints here,
Yea, even the choirs of angels,
They give honor to me,
Because I am beautifully adorned
With Jesus' wedding-garment.
My faith triumphs
After brief battle and strife.

So am I well kept
In my JESUS' hand:
He will ever provide for me
In office, calling and station.
No good thing will
My Lord and God let me lack;
Therefore let the world hate me,
I defy all its scorn!

So let me then one day come,
Thou Lord of Sabaoth!
To all Thy faithful,
To life through death!
Thou hast promised it indeed,
Whoever trusts in Thee,
To feast with eternal bliss
At the blessed feast of jubilee.

A. Selle.

The Peasant and the Bishop.

Gailer von Kaisersberg (died 1510 as preacher at Strassburg) relates, in a sermon delivered in the year 1482 before many prelates and priests, in which he urges a reformation of the corrupted Church, the following pleasing story:

Once a mighty bishop, armored and surrounded by a great band of armed horsemen, comes rushing along with great tumult past the field of a peasant. Terrified, the peasant leaves his plow and remains standing with open mouth before the pompous train. The bishop notices him, rides up to him and addresses him with a friendly countenance as follows: "Good friend, I would ask thee something, wouldst thou give me a plain and true answer to my question?" The peasant answers: "Who am I, and who are all my kindred, that I should refuse to answer my most serene prince and gracious lord?" The bishop continues: "Then tell me, what didst thou think, when thou stoodest with gaping mouth and lookedst at me with wonder?" "I thought," replied the peasant, "whether St. Martin, who also was a bishop, was also wont to go along the streets with such clash of arms and such a troop of horsemen?" The bishop, somewhat embarrassed at this speech, replies: "I am not only a bishop and a spiritual lord, I am also a temporal duke, prince and lord; but hast thou a mind to see the bishop, then come on such and such a day (here he named a day) to my see, and I shall show myself as a bishop." Thereupon the peasant smiles and says: If the lord bishop would not take it amiss and would deem him worthy of an answer, he would like to put a question to him also. "Ask what thou pleasest," answers the bishop, "thou wilt not anger me." The peasant begins: "How? if our duke for his misdeed (God forbid) should go down into hell, where would our bishop come in?!" — The bishop is silent, and red with shame and wrath rides hastily away. —

Gailer adds (according to Wimpheling's translation of the year 1512): "O how many bishops are departed, who now tremble in hell, who have exercised jurisdiction, temporal and spiritual, had they only handled the affairs of spiritual matters, now they would be more blessed, than the blessed, and reign in the kingdom of heaven." — Perhaps the addition of a like lesson would be needful also for many a preacher of our day, who cannot refrain from meddling in worldly affairs. —

God's Judgment.

Remarkable is the story of a respected citizen, a father of seven well-grown sons, who however were all dumb. The grief over the misfortune of his children gnawed continually at the father's heart, and he could not comprehend how God visited him so terribly before other fathers. Once he led his dumb sons to a neighboring farm, where one ate fresh milk, butter and cheese with an old Swiss. The afflicted father cast compassionate glances at his sons, who sat healthy and rosy-cheeked about the table, but—were dumb. Tears trickled down his cheeks, and he sighed toward heaven: "O God! wherewith have I deserved this!" — The old Swiss, who noticed all this, took the father aside, and said with German sincerity to him: I see well that it grieves you that your sons are dumb: but I wonder not at it! Do you not remember, I have known you from youth, how as a boy you set snares for the birds, and when you caught them, tore the tongue out of their throats, and with wicked joy let them fly again? — O, the little birds under heaven, which now could no more praise God with their song, have accused you, and it seems you shall never hear from the mouth of your children the sweet name of father". (Sonntagsbl.)

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