# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 08 16_S183
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and pour out the water which works regeneration, without anyone knowing what I do."

Method of Mr. Pompallier, Bishop of New Zealand, for Effecting Conversions.

He says: "I visited new tribes whose chiefs had long desired my presence. The consequence of this long journey was that 40 tribes were converted to the Catholic faith. Over 15,000 natives I have incorporated into our Catholic Church. I could stay only a few days with each tribe; this short time was employed in instruction concerning the most important religious truths and in refutation of the calumnies which heresy (the heretics) puts in circulation against me and the holy Church."

(Cf. Annales de la Propagation de la foi, Janvier 1841.)

Steadfast Confession of the Gospel.

Gillius von der Banner, a rich and respected, but withal pious and God-fearing merchant in the Netherlands, was a zealous, steadfast confessor of the evangelical Christian religion; he was threatened with death if he would not forsake the evangelical religion of Jesus. He answered boldly: "I hold it to be the eternal divine truth, and will never depart from it." He was given time to consider; and since he would not change his opinion, he had both his thighs broken in two by the executioner with a wooden club, and it was thought that by such astonishing torture he would be brought away from the truth he had recognized and confessed. But — anything but that; he remained ever steadfast and, with heartfelt joy, struck up one hymn of praise after another. On the next day he was questioned again: whether he had not yet thought better of it? — "No!" was the answer; "I thank God from my heart that He has let me attain to His saving knowledge: would that you too might have it, that you be not lost forever!" — Thereupon the executioner had to break both his arms with the club. But even by this he let himself not be made to waver in the confession of the truth; he rather praised God still with an almost more cheerful heart. Thereupon they let him hunger and thirst some days. This means of compulsion also remained without success. Then they had his back and the ribs in his body beaten to pieces with the club; — all in vain. At last, on the fourth day, because he was as immovable as a rock in his confession, the executioner had to cut and tear the skin and hair from his head with a razor, and thereupon to pour hot lead down his throat — whereupon this faithful martyr of the evangelical faith succumbed to the pains, and obtained the crown of eternal life. (Rom. 8, 35.

Touching Death of Three Children.

Ali Pasha had resolved upon the destruction of the Christian inhabitants of Suli, and to this end allied himself with the Vizier of Berat, the Pashas of Delvino and Paramythia, and with the mighty Bey Chamury against them. These murderers of Christians marched suddenly, without the unhappy little people having the slightest inkling of it, into their mountains, threw to the ground the courageous resistance hastily set against them, and slew everything their sword and their flames reached, from the aged man to the infant at its mother's breast: for the extermination of the whole people had been firmly resolved, so that the whole booty might be shared. Of the manner in which the barbarians and robbers proceeded in this, here only one example.

The close of the unhappy victims of Suli was made by 3 children of extraordinary beauty. Of these the eldest was a boy of 14 years, the second an exceedingly lovely girl of 11 years, the third a still younger boy. — All three were led, surrounded by exulting dervishes, to the place of execution beneath the plane trees of Kalo-Tschesme. With cheerfulness the innocent children went to meet the cruel death. The beautiful girl led her younger brother in the midst of the executioners, with firm step. When they had arrived beneath the shade of the trees of death, their eldest brother was first thrown to a wild bear, which tore him to pieces; to her younger brother a sword-stroke struck off the head before her lap, while she, fallen upon her knees with hands raised high and with a loud voice, prayed to God: "All-merciful Father, God of the suffering and the weak! have mercy on my poor brothers! Christ, Thou Son of God, take them up into Thy kingdom!" until a saber-stroke robbed her also, the steadfast one in the greatest suffering, of her young life. (Matt. 10, 28.

Receipt and Thanks.

$11 through Pastor H. Wunder in Chicago, Illinois, from the Young Women's Society of his congregation, I hereby acknowledge having received.

May the kind God richly bless the benevolent givers for their gifts, both bodily and spiritually.

Fort Wayne, April 22, 1853.

H. Grätzel.

The Song of Eternity.
IV.

What is our eternity, then?
A wealth of joys,
An end of sufferings,
A beginning of delights,
A shining of suns,
An abyss of jubilee years ever new.
Ask not what our eternity is.

What is our blessedness, then?
We have suffered,
We have striven,
Drunk much wormwood,
Sunk in misery;
Now it is over, now it is past:
Do you ask what our blessedness is?

What is our glory, then?
It cannot be grasped,
What is beyond measure,
With your senses
You cannot attain it,
No pen, no mouth, no fancy
Will tell you what our glory is.

G. Sch.

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