# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 11 26_S56
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to put it in the wrong, and that if only with a: "We do not wish to believe that" etc. etc. We can solemnly assure you that our correspondent is neither known to us, nor, so far as we have ascertained, to any one in our Synod, much less a member of our Synod, but is a member of a Synod which has adopted the new hymn book. We can further solemnly assure you that we have not ourselves seen the new hymn book, and since we heard that it had been edited in a better spirit, had resolved to keep silence about it, unless God should constrain us to a testimony concerning it by special circumstances, precisely because we feared that the slightest censure expressed by us might easily cast upon us the appearance as if the low motive of material interest lay at the bottom of it; the more so, since we should then stand before the eyes of many in America not as a solitary shameful example, but only as one among many.

(Communicated.)

9.

From the Song of Songs.

Know ye where Sharon lieth?
Saw ye there the flower bloom?
Nazareth hath cradled me,
Sharon saw the flower bloom.

As the field in bridal garb
Showers flowers, rich with gold,
So am I to the desolate land
A flower of wondrous grace.

A lily in the valleys,
White as snow and full of sorrow,
Hemmed in by bitter torments,
I give forth fragrance of the kingdom of heaven.

My friend! A rose
Art thou among the thorns as well,
Wrapped in mourning crape,
Weeping beneath the myrrh bush.

What can smell more sweetly
Than the little rose so red!
It blooms upon the tombs of the dead
And tastes nevermore of death.

My friend, forever fair,
Forever shalt thou be lovely,
Unspeakable songs of praise
Shall delight thee after the suffering!

G. Schaller.

High Esteem of the Bible.

Johannes Wesel, whom one may well count among the forerunners of Luther, had a great patron in Franz von Ravero. This General of the Franciscan Barefoot Friars afterward became Pope and let our Wesel choose among the proofs in deed of his friendship which he now wished to give him. Wesel was not at a loss what he should ask; he asked for a manuscript of the Bible from the papal library, since printed Bibles were not yet to be had at that time. The Pope (Sixtus IV.) found this request exceedingly silly. "Fool," said he, "why do you not rather ask for a bishop's mitre?" He meant a bishopric with rich revenues. "That I cannot use," replied Wesel, took his Bible, and returned gladly to his native city of Gröningen, to be able to read undisturbed in his dear Bible there.

Hadst thou, dear reader, as yet no Bible — which I hope I need fear of no reader — wouldst thou also choose a Bible out among all the splendors which thou couldst select? — Examine thyself!

Last Answer.

In the book which Bugenhagen sent forth against the Zwinglians under the title: "Öffentliches Bekenntniß vom Sacramente des Leibes und Blutes Christi," he closes accounts with them in the following words: "Those who deny the Word of Christ shall afterward expect nothing more from me, but may fear Christ, against whom they fight and strive in his Word."

Frank Confession.

How excellently the temporal and spiritual government must have been ordered shortly before the time of the Reformation may be seen, among other things, from the open-hearted saying of an emperor of that day, Maximilian I., which runs as follows: "Eternal God! how would it go with the world, if thou hadst not a special oversight over it, under an emperor like me, who am only a wretched hunter, and under such a wicked drunken pope as Julius II. is."

Change of Office.

We have just learned that our dear Crämer, who, as will already be known to most of our readers, was unanimously elected by our electoral college as successor to the blessed Wolter, arrived happily with his dear family at Fort Wayne on the 24th of last month, and has already entered upon his important office as second professor at the preachers' seminary there. As great as, we hear, was the sorrow with which our Crämer was dismissed from his former congregation at Frankenmut, so great, on the other hand, was the joy with which the teachers and students at Fort Wayne received him. We do not doubt that hereby the merciful God has healed again the deep and dangerous wound which was inflicted upon the institution at Fort Wayne, and thus upon our whole Church, by the decease of the late Wolter; may God now also soon replace, to its comfort, the hard loss it has experienced to the dear Frankenmut congregation, which in Christian willingness has brought so heavy a sacrifice for the general welfare of the Church!

We herewith call the attention of the correspondents of the above-named to the fact that from now on his address is as follows:

Rev. Prof. A. Cræmer, care of Rev. Dr. W. Sihler, Fort Wayne, Ia.

Received
for the Synodical Mission Treasury.

From Mr. Jacob Archer $—50.
" Mrs. W... in Frohna 55.
" Mr. Lorenz Frahs 1 00.
" the boys of the school in the local Trinity Church 5 00.
" the teacher and the pupils of the local Concordia School 3 00.
" From members of the congregation in St. Louis 27 15.

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Received
for the building of the evang. luth. College near St. Louis.

From Mr. Lorenz Frahs $1 00.

E. Roschke, Treasurer.

Received
for the Lutheran Seminary near St. Louis.

From Mr. Lorenz Frahs 1 00.
" the St. John's congregation in Minden, Washington Co., Ills. 1 30.

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

for the 6th volume, the gentlemen Carl Fr. Heck, T. F. Kleppisch.
" the 7th " the gentlemen G. Ebert, Lorenz Frahs, Conr. Göbel, H. Harken, M. Heinlein, Heim, P. W. Hunderdoße, Georg Ilgen, J. M. Kirchmeyer, C. Kleppisch, J. G. Kranß, Fr. Kanne, Eberh. Muhly, J. H. Müller, Heinr. Müller, Fr. Meyer, Christian Rose, P. Schliepsiek, J. G. Strobel, Mich. Schönell, Conr. Trier, Adam Wiltermuth, Joh. Weidner, G. Wiedemann, Christ. Wöbking.

Books and Pamphlets
to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner
at the prices appended.

Dr. Martin Luthers kl. Catechismus, unveränderter Abdruck 10.
The dozen $1. Hundred copies $7.
Die Verfassung der deutschen evang. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. St. nebst einer Einleitung und erläuternden Bemerk. 5
The dozen 50; 25 copies $1.
Erster Synodalbericht der deutschen evang. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. St. vom Jahre 1847 10.
Zweiter Synodalbericht derselben Synode vom Jahre 1848 10.
Dritter Synodalbericht derselben Synode vom Jahre 1849 10.
Dritter Jahrgang des Lutheraners von 1846 — 47. No. 8 — 26. 50.
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Vierter und fünfter Jahrgang des Lutheraners $1.
Christliches Concordienbuch, d. i. Symbolische Bücher der evang. luth. Kirche, New-Yorker Ausgabe in gepreßtem Leder gebunden $1. 25.
Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus, (in Pamphletform) 1 copy 5.
Dr. Martin Luthers Tractat von der wahren Kirche, 2 copies 5.
Dr. Luthers Hauspostille, oder Predigten über die Evangelien auf die Sonn- und Festtage des ganzen Jahrs, New-Yorker Ausgabe, gebunden in Kalbleder $2.
Kirchen-Gesangbuch für evang. luth. Gemeinden, welchem die sonn- und festtäglichen Perikopen beigefügt sind, verlegt von der hiesigen evang. luth. Gemeinde U. A. C. in gepreßtem Lederbande, each 75.
The dozen $8 } for cash payment.
100 copies $62. 50 }
ABC-Buch, New-Yorker Ausgabe, each 10.
(The dozen $1.)
Johann Hübners Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente. Unveränderter Abdruck, New-Yorker Ausgabe, singly 25.
by the dozen $2. 60.
Dr. Martin Luthers Auslegung des 90. Psalms, broschirt und beschnitten 15.
by the dozen $1. 50.
Spruchbuch zum kl. Catechismus Lutheri. Im Auftrage der Synode von Missouri etc. zusammengetragen von Pastor Fr. Wyneken, each 15.
by the dozen $1. 50.
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn P. Graubau zu Buffalo v. J. 1840 nebst dem zwischen ihm und mehreren luth. Pastoren von Missouri gewechselten Schriften 15.

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