# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 09 03_S8
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...of the priests and monks is rent asunder, have hitherto devoured one another, and now all together become one against us. Worldly princes and lords also in like manner. Pilate and Herod must become one against and over against Christ, who are otherwise mortal enemies to one another.

112. Yet the error of the Anabaptists is more tolerable than that of the Sacramentarians in this point. For the Sacramentarians make baptism wholly to nought; but these make it new. There is yet help and counsel, that they may come right. Well then, so much at least is accomplished, that the Anabaptists have uncertain delusion and faith, and cannot prove their thing.

113. For Satan also, through all the fanatics, now does no more than bring forward mere uncertain things, and thinks it enough if he can talk haughtily and contemptuously of us; as the Sacramentarian sects do. There none will make his conceit certain and prove it; but all their labor is, that they may make our understanding suspected and uncertain. Suspiciones docent, non fidem, and then they call it Scripture and God's Word. For the devil sees that he can do nothing against the bright sun of truth; therefore he stirs up the dust, and would fain make a mist before our eyes, that we should not see the light: and in the mist he holds up to us mere will-o'-the-wisps, that he may seduce us. That is, since they have conceived their conceit, they try how they may rhyme Scripture thereto, and drag it in by the hair.

114. But Christ, who hitherto has faithfully stood by us, would henceforth tread Satan under our feet, and keep you all, also from the seduction of your tyrant and Antichrist, and graciously help you to his liberty, Amen. 1528.

Lutheran Separated Congregation in Nassau.

Nassau is, as is well known, the first land that after the example of Prussia introduced the Union, (on the 11th of Aug. 1817. — in 1818 the Bavarian Palatinate followed, in 1821 Baden, in 1823 Electoral Hesse, in 1828 Anhalt-Dessau and Bernburg, in 1833 Hesse-Darmstadt) yet with the reservation that every adult Christian should be permitted to receive the Lord's Supper on request in the Lutheran or Reformed manner. Only in the most recent time has a reaction against it awakened. About 1843 the believing pastor Brunn was installed there in a congregation which, having been pastured by rationalists since the memory of man, lay in complete death of spirit. His living preaching of repentance before God and of faith in Christ brought forth a striking awakening, especially in the parish village of Steeden, where in fact the taverns were turned into houses of prayer. Through a visit of Director Graul of the Lutheran Missionary Society in Saxony the preacher himself was made attentive to the pure Lutheran doctrine, and an opinion of Dr. Harleß brought him to the conviction that it was his duty to withdraw from the state church. After a hard struggle he announced on the 6th of July 1846, with all like-minded persons (about 150 souls) in his congregation, his withdrawal to the superior authority. After vain attempts at settlement in good will, he received from the ducal ministry of state, together with his dismissal, the order to leave the district of his office within 24 hours. He went to Dresden, where he arrived just at the time of the missionary festival, and, on the counsel of the brethren there, after the connection with the separated Lutherans in Prussia had been arranged, returned to Steeden, declaring to the government that he would persevere as pastor of the now formally constituted congregation, and appealed to the complete religious liberty guaranteed in the Nassau constitution. A new expulsion followed, Brunn was tracked by the police, all public worship was forbidden the congregation under penalty, an investigation was instituted over every baptism, etc., until in the spring of 1847 the answer was given orally by the minister that they would let the matter rest. Recognition as a Lutheran congregation, however, no petitions could obtain, and even in the diet, which had granted recognition and full toleration to the German Catholics, 4 Catholics were the only ones who voted for it. That was in the autumn of 1847. Immediately thereupon the matter was handed over to the courts, fines for the preacher, and a repeated expulsion followed, executions and imprisonments upon the congregation. Brunn traveled to and fro, from Bavaria and Prussia, yet he thought at last that he must succumb: then came the March of 1848 and led him back into the congregation. But only for a few days, for he had again to flee from the revolutionary bands; the oppression from above was followed by that from below; but not for long. Now the congregation, 300 souls strong, is ecclesiastically organized, and in the surrounding country also (Steeden lies exactly in the middle of Nassau) individuals are falling to it.

(This report is taken from a letter of Brunn's, which was printed in the old-Lutheran "Kirchenblatt" by Pastor Ehlers in Liegnitz.)

Received
for the Synodal Missions Treasury.
From Rev. P. Dulitz in Milwaukee, collected in missionary hours $20 00
From Dr. Haynel in Baltimore 25 00
From Lutherans in Liverpool, Medina C., O. 10 00
From M. B. 1 00
From C. R. 3 00
From B. S. and L. in St. Louis 1 25
From school children in Neu-Bremen 20
F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

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Letter Box.
To P. Th.. The poem in question by A. K. is not in our hands.

Synod.

The great majority of the members of our Synod have cast their votes for this, that our postponed assembly of this year be held from the 2nd of October to the 12th of the same in St. Louis, Mo.; in making this result known, I at the same time inform the brethren that the cholera as an epidemic has already for a considerable time ceased to rage here, so that nothing stands in the way of holding our sessions at the time now appointed. Those arriving are requested to inquire for the respective dwellings of the pastors of the local congregation at the porcelain-ware store of Mr. L. Pechmann, Mainstreet No. 35.
C. F. W. Walther,
at present President.

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