# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 04 30_S144
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— the prayer of the father for him, and the motherly warnings of the mother, which he often heard, he yet went ever deeper into his ruin. In the sixteenth, as the last of his years of life, he was wholly carried away by evil company. Swept along in the chains of sin like a slave, he stood at last on the point of stealing away secretly from his pious parents, so as no longer to be held back in his sinful passions by their resistance. But dear God had appointed a time in which, according to the riches of His glorious grace and mercy, He would put a stop to the ruin of this youth and rescue his soul. One evening the mother learned something of his wickednesses. The terror of it penetrated deep into her heart. She could not refrain from tears. This the youth felt. The next morning he came to her and asked whether he was the cause of her grief? — The mother, who had spent the night in grief and anxiety, felt an irresistible impulse to warn her son with all her power. She seized this opportunity as though God had sent it to her, and spoke to his heart earnestly; showed him his deep ruin and the means of rescue from it out of God's Word. The young man was moved. — His conscience awoke, he stood still like that prodigal son, thought over his condition, but held his conversion to be impossible, because he believed he had plunged himself too deeply into ruin. Under the working of the prevenient grace of God, the LORD laid him upon the sickbed with the most violent pains in March 1785. And the grace of our dear LORD was glorified in him in a joyful manner. After he had felt for several days the anguish of hell in his conscience, the peace of God entered into him. Ah, pity, pity, he cried out one day, that I have walked so long the way of destruction! Now I see how the world and sin have deceived me; now there comes none of the worldly companions who led me into sin; they stand afar off, and shun my plague. Thereupon he took leave of those standing about, and believed that he should see them no more in this world, and asked that all friends of our LORD JESUS be greeted; he desired also that after his now soon to be expected departure the hymn: Wenn meine Sünd' mich kränken etc., especially the verse:

What can now harm me,
The great number of sins?
I am in grace with God;
The guilt is altogether
Paid by Christ's precious blood;
So that I need no more fear
The torment and fire of hell.

should be sung by the choir boys. He was asked whether he could believe that his debts of sin also were paid? — And he answered: The guilt is altogether paid by Christ's blood. It was replied: He should consider that he would now soon be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ, where he must yet give account of all his actions, yea, of his whole life — whether he then had no fear of that? No, he answered:

The guilt is altogether paid
By Christ's precious blood;
So that I need no more fear
The torment and fire of hell.

This was also his confession prayer, since on the same day he received the holy Supper from the hands of Supreme Consistorial Councillor Silberschlag. — At his sickbed stood one of his former schoolmates. You, my dear one! — so he addressed him — you know that we have often dishonored our LORD JESUS; but take only an example from me, and become wise by my harm. Now it is time that you turn with your whole heart to our Savior. If you will not do it, behold, I shall one day bear witness against you on that day of judgment; I will not be to blame for your perdition; therefore have I told it to you. You will not be saved otherwise than through the atoning blood of our LORD JESUS Christ. — The youth had to give the sick one his hand, and promised with many tears that he would turn.

At the last visit on his day of dissolution, when he was already about to leave his tabernacle, because the cold sweat of death already stood on his brow, hands and feet were cold and the eyes were broken — he was asked once more whether he was still sure of his salvation? — „My guilt,“ said he again, „is altogether paid by Christ's precious blood; so that I need no more fear the torment and fire of hell.“ Because the pain was too violent, he could not say much more. He was reminded yet of God's promises, and asked that he should only surrender himself as a poor sinner to his LORD JESUS. They took leave of him until the joyful meeting again before the throne of our LORD JESUS Christ. He fell asleep blessedly in his LORD, on the 16th of March 1785, at the age of sixteen years and three weeks.

Since, as there is only One God and One Lord and One Baptism, so also there is only One Faith, one departs from the faith which is the sole one, and when several faiths arise, they bring it about by their very existence that there is none any more. Hilarius of Poitiers (Pictariensis, died 368).

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