# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 12 27_S72
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St. Augustine's Address to a Preacher Who Wishes to Rebaptize a Christian Baptized in Childhood.

What lack do you find in him whom you wish to rebaptize? You cannot give him what he already has, but make him deny what he has. What worse thing did the heathen persecutors of the Church do? Swords were drawn against the martyrs, wild beasts were let loose upon them, fire was brought against them. To what end? That whoever was to suffer this might say: I am no Christian. What else do you teach him whom you wish to rebaptize, than that he should first say: I am no Christian? What the persecutor once brought the flame to, you accomplish by speech. You effect by seduction what that one could not effect by bloody persecution. (In ev. Joh. expos. Tract. 5.)

He who now still demands miracles in order to believe (the Scripture) is himself a great miracle, since, now that the whole world believes, he will not believe.

Augustine.

A Terrible End.

The late Scriver relates the following in his "Siech- und Siegesbette":

There lived in a neighboring Saxon city, not too many years ago, a citizen who busied himself with healing other people's hurts, but felt not his own wounds of heart and conscience, and sought and desired no plaster for them; to soak his tongue in the noble beer which by God's blessing falls in the same city, and with it to curse and blaspheme bravely, was a daily habit with him. At length he was seized with dropsy, which reminded him of his approaching end and of God's judgment, and, according to His goodness and longsuffering, gave him time to bethink himself and repent. But he remained, in spite of all persuasion, in his habit, and when he perceived that death was at hand, he commanded his son to have the coffin made for him, so that, when he was departed, he might soon be laid in it, because he feared the swollen belly might burst. The son demurred somewhat, saying that when he had passed away the coffin would soon be found. The father cried: Go, you — that this one and that one may fetch you! — and order me the coffin in the other's name! The son went and had the coffin made and brought it into the house, and afterwards reported to the father that the coffin he had demanded was now at hand. The latter desired that he should have it brought before his bed, that he might see it; when this was done, he began to cry out: May the — take me, the thing is too short for me! The son replied that it would not be too short, but the other repeated the former words: May the — take me — and went thus with the word, as it is said in the Low Saxon tongue: Hale, hale mick de —! away into the unchangeable and endless eternity. — Now, you Christian and God-loving souls, remember in this the saying:

Man, as you believe, so you live,
And as you live, so you die,
And as you die, so you fare,
And as you fare, so you remain.

Therefore: let here in time, there in eternity, be your rule!

The Queen of Madagascar, a Negro kingdom in Africa, notorious for her cruelties against the Christian missionaries and those converted by them, has, according to the latest news from there, departed by death. Her son and successor professes Christianity. (Wahrheitsfreund.)

I speak not presumptuously, writes Chrysostom, but as I have it in my heart and as I judge: I do not think that among the preachers there are many who will be saved, but far more who are lost. (Hom. 3 in Act.)

Changed Address:
Rev'd C. Strasen,
Ruma P. O., Randolph Co., Ill.

New Address.
Mr. Julius Koch,
Lancaster P. O., Ohio.

For Information.
The 3rd Synodal Report of the Synod of Missouri, etc., is being sent out from the place of printing by Pastor Selle in Chicago.

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$3.00 from the congregations of Pastor Heid.
$7.95 collected by the boys of the school in the local Trinity Church and delivered as a Christmas gift.

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Miss Marie Brinkmeier $1.00.
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