Memoirs of John Frederic Oberlin, Pastor of Waldbach, in the Ban de la Roche, from the third London edition (Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1832), "Fragment, written by Oberlin, in 1784," pp. 275–276

And thou, O my dear parish! neither will God forget nor forsake thee. He has towards thee, as I have often said, thoughts of peace and mercy. All things will go well with thee. Only cleave thou to Him, and leave Him to a…