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pastors; and many distinguished men showed a sincere attachment to the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. Amongst these may be mentioned Feneburg and Winkelhofer, who lived near the close of the eighteenth century; and subsequently Sailer, De Wessenburg, Jahn, Hug, and others. The instructions of Sailer appear to have exercised great influence upon the mind of Boos.

Through the labours of these, and other like-minded men, many were brought to a saving knowledge of Christ; and by means of a Society established among the Roman Catholics in Bavaria for the purpose, the Bible, in the German language, was very widely circulated. Many of the people went beyond their teachers; carrying out their views with more consistency and courage; and having discovered the errors of Popery they rejected them entirely, and walked in the light and liberty of the gospel, though encompassed with persecutions and trials.

The following memoir is abridged from a Life of Martin Boos, by Johannes Gossner, of Berlin, who was formerly an intimate friend and a coadjutor of Boos; and who, like him, suffered much persecution for the cause of Christ.

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