# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 03 05_S112 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 112 also from their error into which they had fallen, they should find themselves compelled to become sober. But I do not know how it came about, since he was not otherwise accustomed to such a thing, that he became at that time very vexed and embittered in mind. In such a state he lay down to sleep; for it was evening. Toward midnight, when he was accustomed to awaken for prayer, he awoke indeed and rose, but had had a restless and broken sleep, not without disturbance of mind. Since he therefore was not sufficiently on his guard in prayer and in converse with God, he said with indignation to himself, in anger at those two sinners: "It is not right that these ungodly men, who pervert the right ways of the LORD, should still live; and thereupon he asked God that He would utterly destroy the life of both by a storm and lightning. Immediately after he had said this, — so he reported — he saw suddenly how the house in which he was was at first violently shaken, and thereupon from above was split in two through the middle by a flash of lightning; and a great bright fire fell from heaven — for now he stood under the open sky — down to him, but heaven itself he saw standing open and JEsus sitting in the midst of it, surrounded by innumerable angels and perfected saints. With wonder he looked upward. But when Carpus cast his eyes down again, he saw, according to his report, the ground as a great and dark abyss, split asunder, and the men whom he had cursed standing before him at the edge of the great chasm, trembling and in a pitiable form, as if on account of the insecure footing of their feet they were about to plunge down at once. Further he saw serpents come forth out of the abyss, which partly wound themselves about their feet, already unsteady and slipping, and tried to drag them away, and partly seemed with their teeth, tails, jaws, throats, tongues and the whole movement of their bodies to strike a fearful terror into them, and accordingly strove in every manner to cast them down. There were also some men there who likewise rushed upon them together with the serpents, and tormented, thrust and struck them. They seemed thus to be very near the fall, partly by force and against their will, partly also willingly, as those who were gradually compelled and driven by the evil. But Carpus reported that when he looked on at this below, he took delight in it and let what was above go out of his mind; yea, it vexed him greatly that they nevertheless did not fall down; and when he was often provoked, and strained himself to thrust them in, but in vain, he felt it very ill and cursed them. Behold, hardly had he lifted his eyes upward again, when he saw heaven as at first; but JEsus, full of compassion at what was happening, rising from His heavenly throne and coming down to those men and reaching them His gracious hand, while the hosts of angels helped and held up the two men; but JEsus, still standing with outstretched hand, said to Carpus: Now strike at me, for I am ready also a second time to suffer for the salvation of men; that is pleasing to me, if only other men sin no more; but do thou look here, whether it is more profitable for thee to prefer the dwelling of this abyss among the serpents to the fellowship of God and of the good and loving angels? — This I have heard from him (concludes Dionysius), and I believe that it is true. Witnesses to the Truth in the Papacy. When the renowned Württemberg theologian Johannes Brentius visited the monastery Norhalden in the year 1560 with several other evangelical theologians, he found over the door, hewn in stone, an old inscription, which ran thus: Ex merito Christi tantum salvamur abunde, Ergo tuis factis ne fidas, optime frater! Which words old Michael Sachse has rendered into German as follows: Through Christ's powerful merit alone We are made righteous and pure before God And enter into heaven; Therefore, dear brother, do not ground thyself Proudly upon thine own works, For they do not hold good before God. Brentius at once used this inscription to convince the prior and the monks of the monastery that the doctrine of justification by grace through faith alone without any works is not a new one, first invented by Luther, but the doctrine of the true Church of all times, and how foolish it is therefore to wish to merit heaven by monastic vows and other works. Though the self-righteous monks indeed blushed for shame at this, the only effect was that they had the stone with its inscription, which they had formerly often read thoughtlessly, now removed and broken to pieces. By oversight, at the close of the articles: "Die Pfarrer sind selbst nicht einig"; and: "An Mitteln fehlts ihm nicht," the statement that they were taken from the Wucherer'schen Sonntagsblatt was left out in the preceding number. Correction. In the 3rd Synodal Report of the Synod of Missouri, etc., it should read on page 22, column 2, line 8 from the bottom: Congregation Kosciusko, Marshall Co., Ind., $6.00. (The missing $1.00 will be received in the next account.) Changed Addresses: Rev'd A. Hoyer, Long Green P. O., Baltimore Co., Md. Rev'd Gottlieb Schaller, Baltimore, Md. Rev'd N. Volkert, Wickliffe, Cook Co., Ill. Letter-box. Mr. P. J E. W. Br.... The receipt for $7.00 shall follow in due time. Mr. P. G. K. S.... in Marshall Co., Ind. Your letter with $7.00 for the Mission Fund and $8.00 for the Lutheraner has not arrived and has probably gone "astray." In order to be able to drop the latter item, a more exact statement of the individual amounts and names is requested. Received for the building of the German Evangelical Lutheran College in St. Louis: From the congregation of Rev. J. G. Böhm in Mayville, Dodge Co., Wis., $1.15. From the widow Sperber in St. Louis $2.00. From Mr. Jakob Beck in Columbia, Ill., $10.00. From some members of the congregation in Columbia, Ill., $2.35. From Rev. Geyer in Lebanon Town near Watertown, Wis., $5.00. From the congregation Ebenezer, Franklin Co., Mo., through Rev. Dr. Stibolt $21.25. From the congregation in Paitzdorf, Perry Co., Mo., through Rev. Gruber $2.15. From Mr. Heinrich Conrad Krannes 95 Cts. From the Lutheran congregation in Philadelphia, Pa., through Rev. Schaller $10.50. E. Roschke, Treasurer. Received for the Synodal Mission Fund: $1.75 from Rev. 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