# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 12 10_S64 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 64 so serious a calling! Because of my little faith I often scarcely know how to help myself. If God's Word were not my comfort, I should perish. Therefore I beg the whole Synod, and you, dear Mr. President especially, to remember me in intercession before the Lord as your lowly fellow-laborer. May the Lord have mercy and soon give again a shepherd to the forsaken sheep in Shiboyank! They have besought me heartily to lay their condition earnestly upon the heart of the Synod, with the request that a pastor be sent them again soon. God grant it; etc. etc. J. J. F. Auch. General Schmettau. During a march through the mountains in Silesia the pious General Schmettau walked beside Frederick II. The King wished to dispel his ill humor over the slowness of the march by jests and mockery of the general's piety. Schmettau at first could not get a word in at all. But when the King was silent for a moment, he took the floor quite boldly and calmly: "Your Majesty is much wittier than I, and also much more learned. Moreover, you are my King; the contest between you and me is therefore unequal in every respect. But yet you cannot take my faith from me. And if you should succeed, well then, you would indeed have done me immeasurable harm, but yourself also." The King stood still and said, with flashes of displeasure in his eyes: "What is that supposed to mean, Monsieur Schmettau? I should harm myself if I take his faith from him?" - Schmettau replied: "Your Majesty believes you now have a good officer in me, and I hope you are not mistaken. But if you could take my faith from me, then you would have a miserable creature in me, a reed in the storm, on which there would not be the least reliance." Frederick was at first silent, then asked in a friendly manner: "Tell me, Schmettau, what then is your faith, really?" - "I believe in the divine redemption from all my sins committed. I believe in a divine providence, which numbers every hair upon my head, and in an eternal, glorious and blessed life after death." - "And do you really believe that quite with all confidence?" - "Yes, truly, Your Majesty." Then the King, moved, took Schmettau's hand, pressed it and said: "Schmettau, you are a happy man!" - Then he walked on thoughtfully, and never again did he make Schmettau's faith the subject of a jest. "Charge them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers." 2 Tim. 2, 14. I have a good conscience, writes Luther, if only I have taught nothing evil. Even the highest and most pious fathers in the Church have spoken inappropriately, and indeed not seldom even in the highest articles of the faith; it is vain to dispute over expressions and words, when it is known that the doctrine itself is pure and sincere. But the contentious weighers of words, whose whole conscientiousness and carefulness goes rather to this, with what words they speak, while they are little concerned about the matter itself, yea, teach nothing but what is wrong, these find always something in other men's books to rail at. They strain at gnats and swallow camels; the mote of an inappropriate little word they make a crime in others' writings, while the beams of godless opinions in their own they themselves worship as something altogether divine. Let these wish to be the only ones that count, and delight in their own alone, as much as they will, ours may disgust them, but let them also not lay hands upon it. (From a preface of Luther to the Latin edition of his Kirchenpostille of 1528. See: Unschuld. Nachr. of the year 1730, p. 186.) The Christian Prays Without Ceasing. Where a Christian is, there is in truth the Holy Ghost, who does nothing else but pray continually. For although he does not continually move the mouth or make words, yet the heart goes and beats, like the pulse-veins and the heart in the body, without ceasing with such sighing: Ah, dear Father, that Thy name may be hallowed, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done among us and every man, etc., etc.; and the harder the blows and temptation and distress press and drive, the stronger goes such sighing and petition, also aloud. So that one can find no Christian without prayer, any more than a living man without the pulse, which never stands still, but moves and beats continually of itself; even though the man sleeps or does otherwise, so that he is not aware of it. Luther. Receipt and Thanks. For the church building here I received $8. 20. from the congregation of Rev. P. Fürbringer in Elkhorn, Pr. Ills. 25. from St. Louis 1. 55. from an Anonymous donor through Mr. B. 1. 00. from Mr. M. Frosch, 1. 00. from Mr. A. Wagner, in Ann Arbor, through Rev. P. Hattstädt. 3. 00. from the congregation of Rev. P. Trautmann in Adrian, Mich. 2. 00. from the congregation of P. Sievers in Frankenlust, Mich. 1. 00. from Mr. J. R. Auf der Heide 1. 00. from Mr. B. H. Succop in Pittsburgh, Pa. $19. 00. To the kind donors I say, in the name of my congregation and of the house of God, my most hearty thanks, and wish God's rich recompense and blessing in earthly and heavenly goods. Sagniuaw City, December 6, 1850. Ottmar Cloeter, P. Received for the Synodical Mission Treasury. Sent through Mr. John Rudolph Auf der Heide in Pittsburgh $2. 00. From the Lutheran congregation in Collinsville 3. 90. " members of the congregation in St. Louis 8. 25. " the congregations of Rev. P. 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