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same to you, and therefore you must pray to him. For
my part, I talk with him as the disciples talked with him
during his bodily presence, and cast myself on his promise
that he is with me and hears me. I pour out my heart
to him just as it is, with all its joy and all its grief.”

Ludwig. Oh, Mr. Adler, have you no more letters
of the same kind ?

Carl, Here are numbers of them in this volume.
Try this one,—“ B.’s letter has done me good. I agree
with that faith of his which demands a formula, and
only inquire whether he will agree with mein my for-
mula, which says with Luther’s Catechism,— I believe
that Jesus Christ, very God, begotten of the Father in
eternity, and also very man, born of the Virgin Mary,
is my Lord, who has redeemed, delivered, and won
from all sin, death, and the devil’s power (now comes
a capital point) me, a lost and condemned sinner ; not
with gold and silver, but with his holy, dear blood,
and with his innocent sufferings and death, that I
should be his own, to live under him in his kingdom,
and to serve him in eternal righteousness, innocence,
and happiness; likewise, he has arisen from the dead,
and lives and reigns evermore. This is assuredly true.
So speaks Luther; and I have written it here as fear-_
ing it might be unknown to B., as within a few years
it was unknown to me,’

Ludwig. And to me/ But let me hear a word or
two concerning his death,