# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 11 12_S41
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Der Lutheraner.
(Rev. John, ch. 11, vv. 6, 7.)
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall not pass away, now or evermore."
Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Year 7.  St. Louis, Mo., the 12th of November 1850.  No. 6.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for out-of-town subscribers, 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, which contain business matters, orders, cancellations, money, etc., are to be sent under the address Mr. F. W. Barthel, care of C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo., outside.

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

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

(Conclusion.)

First of all, it cost our Society, which for a long series of years had faithfully lent a helping hand to another missionary society, no small struggle to loosen the old familiar bond; weeping in heart it had to part from that mother society, in many respects so venerable, because she could not resolve to carry on the work of missions in the spirit of our Church. It was a very small company that at that time came together in the name of the Lord, and took into its weak, unpracticed, trembling hand the missionary work of our Church, long interrupted by unbelief that had crept in between; and in this it had to be "as a deaf man that heareth not, and as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth, and as a man that hath no reproofs in his mouth," and had to suffer it quietly that in a missionary paper which goes through the land in many, many thousand copies it was branded as a "sect" which had hitherto lacked "the justifying blessing" of the Lord. And when the first missionary came out to the old mission field of our Church, they indeed did not leave him standing before the gate nor in the marketplace, but he had to be very glad that they were willing to make use of him as a hand-laborer in the Danish mission; yes, and his heart had to bleed when he beheld the mission field, neglected so long, without being permitted, to the best of his knowledge and conscience, to lay his hand to the plow. For this we must not conceal, that some of the last of those 56 missionaries who had followed the men of God, Ziegenbalg and Plütschau, in their labor, infected by the unbelief which was then gaining the upper hand at German universities, had mingled the noble seed of the divine Word, which they were to carry out, with the seeds of human wisdom, and so a good portion of thorns and thistles had come up beside the old good seed. Yet the Lord has already turned this weeping for the most part into laughter, and although we have borne the burden and heat of the day only a little while, we have yet often been permitted to come with joy and bring our sheaves, and to rejoice as in the time of harvest! The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad!

We now have, besides 4 missionaries in South New Holland, who, like all the other mission laborers there, still sow in hope, and besides 1 missionary in North America, to whom the Lord for his short labor has already graciously given rich fruits, 8 missionaries in the East Indies, and indeed at five different stations: at Tranquebar, Poreiar, Mayaveram, Puducotta and Madras. At their side stand 50 to 60 native laborers in church and school service, and they labor with them among 13 congregations with about 2500 souls, at over 30 schools with more than 1000 children, at a seminary for the training of native teachers and preachers with about 70 pupils.

The work among the heathen, however, which goes forward through the fresh, skillful, blessed hand of our Milins, proceeds so joyfully that in the last nine months alone 258 Hindus have been received into the congregation through holy Baptism, and still the field is ripe for the harvest and ever new sheaves are being brought in. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

But as the Lord has given power and emphasis to his holy Word in the mouth of our missionaries, so he has also increased confidence in our whole cause in the Christian world, and that not merely among our own people and in our own Church. Our connections extend far beyond the Lutheran Church of Germany, to Russia, Poland, Hungary, to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Alsace, to North America, yes, in most recent times to Holland and England. And even if in many Lutheran churches only a small company as yet prays, speaks and gives for our cause, we rejoice if but one heart beats for it, one foot moves, one mouth opens, one hand is opened, — we rejoice and wait.

But that is not all. East Indian British Christians presented to us about 3 years ago the station of the Anglican Missionary Society at Mayaveram, which had become without a laborer, together with its appurtenances in grounds and buildings; the late King of Denmark soon after handed over to us there-