–44-. See, the Herr has let his heart experience it all, his heartjubbled, and then wept in the midst of the most severe pains of his illness and brief time upon it called the Herr. He summoned his loyal servant, his master, and said, after spiritual and bodily consultation, that he had built his house well. The Herr is very good. I don’t know much about this matter today. Soon, God willing, the news of the missionaries will come, and from the next number, I hope to be able to share something with you. Now, I want to go back a thousand years and tell you a very lovely mission story, which I found in the parish archives of Herrnannburg. I say: it is very lovely to me that I am a Lüneburger with heart and soul and no land in the whole world goes wrong. And next, that I am a Lüneburger, I am a Hermannsburger, and Herrannsburg is the most beautiful and lovely village in the land. This mission story concerns, but indeed, that I am a Christ, a Lüneburger with a Leib and Seele, and there is no land in the whole world that I find more delightful than Hermannsburg. This mission story concerns but simply my beloved Hermannsburg. From my youth, I have been such a bookworm that I could find something about Germany, or even over the Lüneburg rivers and swamps, and then rejoice! As a boy, I was so a bookworm, that I just wanted to understand Tacitus on the old Germany, I knew no greater joy than to have Tacitus in my pocket in the woods and swamps, and then sit in quiet solitude under a tree or a beech and read the descriptions of our old ancestors’ customs. I read that our ancestors were so valiant and strong,«that the Romans feared already before their high figures and gleaming blue eyes, that they were so faithful to their words that a single word more

–44-– – See, the Herr has let his heart experience it all, his heartjubbled, and then wept in the midst of the most severe pains of his illness and brief time upon it called the Herr. He summoned his loyal servant, his master, and said, after spiritual and bodily consultation, that he had built his house well. The Herr is very good. I don’t know much about this matter today. Soon, God willing, the news of the missionaries will come, and from the next number, I hope to be able to share something with you. Now, I want to go back a thousand years and tell you a very lovely mission story, which I found in the parish archives of Herrannburg. I say: it is very lovely to me that I am a Lüneburger with heart and soul and no land in the whole world goes wrong. And next, that I am a Lüneburger, I am a Hermannsburger, and Herrannsburg is the most beautiful and lovely village in the land. This mission story concerns, but indeed, that I am a Christ, a Lüneburger with Leib and Seele, and there is no land in the whole world that I find more delightful than Hermannsburg. This mission story concerns but simply my beloved Hermannsburg. From my youth, I have been such a bookworm that I could find something about Germany, or even over the Lüneburg rivers and swamps, and then rejoice! As a boy, I was so a bookworm, that I just wanted to understand Tacitus on the old Germany, I knew no greater joy than to have Tacitus in my pocket in the woods and swamps, and then sit in quiet solitude under a tree or a beech and read the descriptions of our old ancestors’ customs. I read that our ancestors were so valiant and strong.