Aug. 31 [ 1815]

My birthday. An other year of my short life has closed a few more setting suns or a few more years at most and I also shall close my pilgrimage and enter the grave the house appointed for all the living. Shortly my immortal spirit will be transported to the glorious world on high and be made complete in bliss in the presence of my Saviour forever and ever on  O painful to tell I must be the companion to an endless eternity of devils and damned ghosts in the regions of dispair. But through rich superabounding grace in God I still have