# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 10 29_S33
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall pass away nevermore."
(Rev. John, Chap. 14, v. 6, 7.)
Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 7.  St. Louis, Mo., October 29, 1850.  No. 5.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for subscribers living at a distance, who are to pay the same in advance and bear the postage. — In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 cents.
Only those letters which contain communications for the paper are to be sent to the editor; all others, however, which contain business matters, orders, cancellations, money, etc., are to be sent hither under the address Mr. F. W. Barthel, care of C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo.

"Der Lutheraner"

has this time been delayed longer than usual. The reason for this is that on the 26th of October the printing office of Mr. Niedner, in which the printing of the "Lutheraner" is now done, was destroyed by fire together with all its equipment. Since Mr. Niedner soon saw the prospect of resuming his business, with God's help, as before after a short interruption, the editorial staff preferred to wait until then with the publication of the next number rather than to have it done in another printing office. The esteemed readers will therefore kindly excuse the rather long delay of the paper. Mr. Niedner will do everything in his power to make up in a short time what has been missed.

The Editorial Staff.

In addition to the above declaration of the editors, I feel myself especially constrained to beg indulgent forbearance, both from them and from the esteemed subscribers, on account of the irregularity that has occurred in the appearance of the "Lutheraner." Although after the calamity of the fire I received new type sooner than I could have expected, yet the other material belonging to the printing office was withheld from me so much the longer, so that under the existing circumstances, despite my exertions, it was impossible to issue a number of the Lutheraner sooner. From now on, however, we shall be able, with God's help, to let the Lutheraner appear regularly again — and indeed weekly until the arrears are made up.

Moritz Niedner, Printer.

Mission Address of the Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission at Leipzig.

(Delivered in the church of Young St. Peter in Strasburg)

Beloved in the Lord!

Being just now on a mission journey of several years' duration to East India, I could not find it in my heart to pass by your dear Strasburg. For in the first place, here is the outermost province of our Evang. Luth. Church, lying on my long, long way: how then should not the longing have come over me to lay down my pilgrim's staff once more and to rest in the bosom of the mother. In the second place, this will be, for a long, long time, perhaps for ever, the last opportunity in the church of my homeland where I can speak a word for our mission, — the mission of this Church: how then should I not be heartily urged to open my mouth before you about it and to lay it upon your heart! And finally, many a gift of love has already flowed to us from your midst: how could I then have passed by without a brotherly greeting and clasp of the hand! And so I greet you, as sons of the house, with the greeting of peace from our Lord Jesus Christ, and reach you in spirit the hand of brotherly love. For we stand and labor in complete fellowship of faith, of love and of hope; our mission is indeed your mission, as the daughter of our Church and of yours, which has brought up both you and us with the pure milk of the Gospel; we give our missionaries no self-made confession, but only our good old Augsburg Confession, the confession sealed with the heart's blood of our fathers, the confession with the full sound kernel, the confession with the shining star of justification by faith alone, upon the foundation of the holy Sacraments, — this we give to our missionaries and thus teach the heathen to "observe all things whatsoever the Lord hath commanded." So then I may open my mouth about our mission before you, — you sons of the house! — with full joyfulness of heart and conscience.

Permit me, therefore, to lead you out to East India, our most important mission field, and to set before your eyes a picture of the history of the Evang. Luth. Mission there. The historical picture which I intend to hold before you can be summed up in the last verse of the 126th Psalm, which reads thus:

"He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."

This saying of the holy Psalmist furnishes four fundamental strokes for the historical picture