# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 12 11_S64
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door, said to her that they would visit her in the holy days, she answered: "I shall not be at home in the holy days." But when they asked in astonishment thereupon whither she would then travel on such a high festival, and what had moved her to such a resolution, she replied: "I shall travel to Bethlehem to the manger of my JESUS, and shall therefore not be at home to those who come to hold conversation with me only about worldly and vain things." — Mark this, you young men and maidens, yea, you Christians all, for the approaching festival!

(From an old Manuscript.)

Christmas Dialogue.

What, dear child, makes thee so glad today?
Oh, today I am heartily glad!
Tell me, what is thy joy?
Today is born JESUS Christ.
Has one only learned this today?
No, already eighteen hundred years ago.
Where was this first made known?
At Bethlehem in the Jewish land.
To whom was this joy made known?
To the shepherds by the mouth of the angels.
Does it belong to them alone?
No, to all men in common.
What then did the angels say there?
An eternally great word of joy!
How did it run? — was it so full of joy?
The Saviour is born to you.
Who is the Saviour? dost thou know already?
The only-begotten Son of God.
For what purpose is God's Son born?
To seek here that which was lost.
Who is lost? dost thou know this?
We sinners, that is only too certain.
Then does He concern us also? —
Why yes, He receiveth sinners.
How? would I also be received?
Today thou canst still come to JESUS.
How, if I dared this step?
Only bring thou repentance and faith with thee.
Has JESUS also patience with me?
He took upon Himself thy guilt.
And shall I too be saved?
He leads thee into heaven.

(Submitted.)

Awakening through a Dream.

A certain Christian K. had in earliest youth received from his parents a thoroughly Christian upbringing. Afterwards, however, he fell into evil company, and then, alas! the good seed sown in his heart was so choked that scarcely anyone could match him in worthlessness. No thought of God came any more into his soul. Church-going and Christianity were to him only laughable. Days and nights he spent in the taverns with drinking and gaming. Nevertheless God gave him an upright and pious wife. By this proof of divine grace, however, his heart was moved as little as, later on, by another, which saved all his possessions for him in a great danger in a most remarkable manner. Only through the severest sufferings could he be won. Therefore the LORD first took from him two of his children, whom he loved very much, shortly one after the other. Immediately thereafter his wife became so dangerously ill that he despaired of her recovery. That worked indeed for the moment, but hardly was the danger past when he was again quite the old man. God had therefore to resort to a still harder means. He let him himself unexpectedly fall into a very severe sickness, in which he not only suffered the most cruel pains but also came near to death. The sufferings at last awakened the long-stupefied conscience. The sins of his youth and all the misdeeds of his former life appeared in the most terrible form before his anguished soul. The hand of the LORD lay so heavy upon him that his end was expected every moment. He fell, however, only into a deep, long sleep, and after waking he asked very urgently for the preacher, at which everyone was astonished to whom his former godlessness was known. Scarcely had the preacher appeared when he disclosed to him, in a stream of tears, how he had now, to his terror, fully recognized his condemnable state, and how he only wished he could tell all sinners what awaited them. In his sleep, he said, it had seemed to him as though an angel had led him to the Judge of the quick and the dead. All those whom he had offended, vexed, and seduced had appeared here against him; the Judge Himself had set all his crimes, yea, the most secret designs of his heart, as also all the proofs of divine grace despised by him, before him and the whole world in a fearful light, and had already opened His mouth to the sentence of terror: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels!" — Then a bright cloud had suddenly taken him away from the dreadful place, and he had awakened. — Weeping and sobbing he now begged the preacher and his wife that they would but pray God with him and for him that He would preserve him from that which he had seen in the dream. These did so sincerely and had the joy of seeing that the sick man gave, not only then but also later, after his recovery, the most unequivocal proofs of the sincerity of his conversion.

What a living proof is this history not only of the word: "He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain, that he may be kept back from the pit," but also of the other: "In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man!" (Job 33, 15—17.)

Wolff.

Church Notice.

On the 31st of October of this year Mr. Anton Weyel, lately a pupil at Fort Wayne, who had received a call from a small congregation, was ordained before the same by Pastor Selle, with the assistance of Pastor Stubnatzy. The post-office of the dear brother is: Crete P. O., Will Co., Ill.

Changed Address:

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