# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 10 01_S24 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 24 could be carried further. Now the LORD knows what we need, and will direct it, if it is otherwise His holy good pleasure. Entreat Him now right diligently with us, and open also thy hands, that we may be put in a position to satisfy the manifold claims upon our poor mission treasury. Thou hast indeed heard this time so much that is gratifying. Let it move thee to praise and thanksgiving toward God, and prove thy gratitude, if thou art otherwise able, gladly also with deed. That the cause which the LORD here carries on through us weak instruments may become ever dearer to thee, and thou ever more at home with us here in the far North, I will soon give thee, if the LORD grants grace and strength, a comprehensive account of the whole mission work here, from its first beginning up to the new joyful events, in brief sections. — To the LORD alone be the glory! August Crämer. Landgrave Philip. Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous deserved this name, which properly means: the stout-hearted, the brave, also in the sense in which we use the word nowadays; he was a lord who knew well how to do at the right time and in the right place now this and now that, and who from his subjects, of whom he well knew how faithful they were to him, could hear and bear much. Besides, he was charitable and generous. Once he had levied an extraordinary tax throughout the whole land, for to carry on his wars, which he undertook for the most part for the sake of the evangelical faith, he often needed money and much money. The poor, however, and in particular the widows, were, it was his express command, to be spared the tax. But one of his stewards, who wished perhaps to make himself popular by a large sum of collected taxes, or perhaps even to shear his own little sheep in the process, had nevertheless demanded the tax also of a widow in his district in the name of his prince, and since she could not pay it, had distrained her cow. Just then the cow was being led away, and the woman went along beside the cow weeping aloud and lamenting. It happens that the Landgrave comes riding by with his retinue, whom the woman, however, does not know. The Landgrave asks what ails her? and she tells him her fate. The Landgrave gives her a thaler to redeem the cow. Full of joy the woman goes her way, looks at the thaler and says: "Now I would that the thaler were glowing hot and burned the prince in clear flame upon his heart." And what did the Landgrave do? Laughing, he turned to his retinue and said: Hear ye, hear! have I not invested my thaler well? At times the gentlemen of the court wished to set bounds to his benevolence, saying that this or that man, to whom he had given something or was minded to give, was not worthy of the benefaction and the alms. "He has asked me," answered the Landgrave then, "in the name of my Lord Christ, therefore I do him good, although he is not worthy of it." But when once one of his noblemen, at the time when the many fine cloister estates were being confiscated, took a fancy to one of them, and applied to the Landgrave for it, that he might give it to him for his long faithful services, the Landgrave said: "How could We come to give thee such an estate? It is not Ours, but God's and His Church's. Should We then take it from God and give it to thee? That is not fitting. These estates must be given back to where they came from, to churches and schools and for the support of the poor and the sick. If thou hast need of anything, wait until a worldly estate that is Ours becomes free, and ask for it, and We will not forget thy request and thy service." And the glory of having faithfully used the church estates for right purposes Philip the Magnanimous had in his day above all princes and lords, and shall keep it above them. (Contributed.) 5. From the Song of Songs. Knowest thou not thyself, Heartily Beloved? Show thy countenance. Cease only from weeping, And turned to me, Let thine eye beam. Fairest among all! Go forth and see, Where of the dear flock Tracks are in the sand, Of their feet the prints Can be read in the sand, There follow after! How will I lead thee, To follow after them! How will I teach thee, Heartily to love me! How will I fill thee With the best pasture! Numberless are the hosts That have gone before. True the Shepherd's voice, True to my voice. As from far away Canst thou see them in the blue, Where the mountains golden Go above the clouds, Still with eyes see, How they all shine! How they all beam! How they all praise And have the harps! Go by the houses, Where the shepherds dwell, There take thou the lambs Guiding, teaching, to thee. Feed my kids, Carry my lambs That golden way Yonder up the mountain! G. Schaller. Church Notice. After Mr. Pastor Schliepsiek, until then near Waterloo, Ills., had been regularly called by the Lutheran congregation at Pleasant Ridge, Madison Co., Ills., as successor to the dear Pastor Lochner, and had accepted this call, he was on the 17th Sunday after Trinity of this year, by commission of the Presidium of our Synod, publicly installed into his office by Pastor Strasen. The post-office of the dear brother is: Callinsville, Madison Co., Ills. In Reply to an Inquiry. The chorale-book of Layritz is indeed set in four parts for organ, but without preludes and interludes. Books and Pamphlets to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner at the prices affixed. Dr. Martin Luthers kl. Catechismus, unaltered reprint 10 The dozen $1. Hundred copies $7. Die Verfassung der deutschen evang. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. St., with an introduction and explanatory remarks 5 The dozen 50 cents; 25 copies $1. First Synodal Report of the German Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, of the year 1847 10 Second Synodal Report of the same Synod, of the year 1848 10 Third Synodal Report of the same Synod, of the year 1849 10 Third volume of the Lutheraner, 1846—1847, Nos. 8—26 50 (The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.) Fourth and fifth volumes of the Lutheraner $1 Christliches Concordienbuch, that is, Symbolical Books of the Evang. Luth. Church, New York edition, bound in embossed leather $1. 25 Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus, (in pamphlet form) 1 copy 5 Dr. M. 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J. 1840, together with the writings exchanged between him and several Lutheran pastors of Missouri 15 Printed by Moritz Niedner, Chestnut Street, between Main & Second, No. 16.