No Confidence in Good Works

Martin Boos, a Catholic, visiting a sick woman, said to her, “I doubt not but you will die calm and happy.” “Wherefore?” asked the sick wo- man. ‘Because your life has all been made up of aseries of good works.” She sighed and said, ‘If I die confiding in the good works which you call to my recollection, I know for certain that I shall be condemned; but what renders me calm at this solemn hour fs, that I trust solely in Jesus Christ my Saviour.” “These few words,” said Boos, “ fromthe mouth of a dying woman who was reputed a saint, opened my eyes for the first time. I learned what that was—‘ Christ for us.’ ”