# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 01 21_S88
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and sincerely disposed church-children the finest opportunity to open their hearts to their spiritual father, to tell him their particular need and concerns, and to desire the corresponding instruction, counsel, comfort and admonition out of and according to God's Word. There now forms itself, by mutual giving and receiving, a hearty bond of love in Christ between the faithful shepherd and the little sheep of Christ committed to him, who with delight and fruit hear the voice of their and his LORD out of his mouth. He takes upon himself the particular need of each, and gives him in return, out of the pantry and the apothecary shop of the holy Scriptures, the necessary food and medicine; the little sheep, on the other hand, gladly and willingly takes such wholesome gift as from God's hands, and gives in return to him, and to this steward, hearty and childlike thanks; and he also will not otherwise be wanting, at the same time as spiritual householder, to bring forth out of his treasure things new and old, that is profitable and serves for improvement and is lovely and gracious to hear. It also comes about, through such truly evangelical care of souls for individuals, that his sermons are not merely doctrinal, but at the same time also pastoral and edifying.

With regard, however, to the other point, this also is a wholesome effect of the announcement for confession and a ground for its introduction, that it holds back for the most part the false and obstinate from the unworthy partaking of the holy Supper. It is indeed impossible that it should keep away those hypocrites who know the form of doctrine by heart, but yet make a work of their going to the Lord's Supper, and place their Christianity in mere legal respectability and civil honesty: but nevertheless there are impure spirits who shun the light and are afraid to be made manifest, and haughty ones to whom it seems low and disgraceful to answer this and that question; and these let themselves gladly be kept away by the announcement for confession from the holy Supper, for which they are, by just such a state of heart, also wholly unfit.

In the fourth place, the announcement for confession is recommended by the churchly discipline and training of the dear young.

For it is of no small importance also for the confirmed that they be kept in steady practice and application of the Catechism, and of the supporting and confirming passages of the Bible which they learned earlier.

For this the announcement for confession is an excellent means; for through it the teacher and father in Christ remains in constant connection with his growing church- and confession-children, in order to question them, to instruct, to rebuke, to admonish, to warn, to draw out and to comfort them, according to state of heart, knowledge, walk and practice of godliness, and therein diligently to apply the Catechism. And also through such procedure, in union with the other pasturing and care by preaching and catechizations, there will gradually, in the course of years and decades, under God's grace and blessing, be reared a new, churchly sound generation, sturdy sons and daughters of the holy Church and of the dear Catechism, who are capable in disposition, firm in doctrine, skilled in defense, sound in faith, true in love, patient in tribulation and joyful in hope, who continue instant in prayer. —

These now would be the 4 chief grounds for the introduction of the announcement for confession, and the reader hitherto uninformed, but sincere and desirous of the truth, will see sufficiently from it how wholesome and beneficial it is for each individual church-child when it is rightly evangelically handled, and how here nothing of popish compulsion to confession and auricular confession is to be heard or seen, but that also the divine Law, where its presentation and sharpening appears necessary, is nevertheless applied in the evangelical sense and spirit to the profit and benefit of souls.

So may then, under God's blessing, what has been said here contribute something toward removing the prejudices cherished against the so innocent and beneficial announcement for confession, and toward helping to form a sound judgment about it.

Ingenious Manner and Way in which a Jesuit has proved that there must be seven Sacraments and not merely two.

Thus writes the Jesuit Georg Scherer in his Postille (sermon on the Gospel for the 7th Sunday after Trinity, page 499): "Among other things people swear by God's 7 Sacraments, yea by 7000 and 700,000; by fewer Sacraments than 7 no trooper has ever sworn; for who has heard anyone swear by two, three, or four Sacraments? As it would indeed sound ridiculous if someone were to say, May God's two or three Sacraments disgrace thee; so unusual is it that there should be fewer than 7 Sacraments." (This Scherer was a native of Schwaz in Tyrol, wrote several controversial writings against the Lutherans, among others a writing with the title: "Der lutherische Bettlersmantel"; once he boasted that he would lose the light of his eyes if the Catholic religion were false, and what happened? Not long after, the unhappy man became blind, and died suddenly of apoplexy, aged 65 years, in the year 1605. Nevertheless, after his death his many blasphemous writings were collected and published, Munich 1614.)

Received
for the building of the evangel. luth. College near St. Louis.
Second remittance through Rev. P. Selle in Chicago, namely:
from an unnamed person $10.00.
" Mr. Mich. Hemrich 1.00.
" " Aug. Claus. 3.00.
Sum $14.00.
E. Roschke, Treasurer.

Received
1. for the Lutheran Concordia-Seminary near St. Louis:
from Dr. Oskar Hunger $1.00.
" the congregation of Rev. P. Wichmann in Cincinnati, O. $10.00.
2.) for the Synodical Mission Treasury:
From Mr. Voß in Neumelle $1.00.
" the congregation of Rev. P. Schmidt in Cleveland, O. 7.00.
Collection at a wedding in Collinsville 2.55.
From Dr. Hunger 2.00.
" the congregation of Rev. P. Rennicke in Columbia, Ill. 2.75.
" the congregation of Rev. P. zur Mühlen in Zanesville, O. 7.00.
" the congregation of Rev. P. Wichmann in Cincinnati, O. 10.00.
" Mr. Heinrich Landwehr in Lawrenceburg, Ia. 25.
F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid
for the 6th volume, Messrs. August Claus, Carl Phil. Germann, Mich. Hemrich, Ludwig Jung, Kratzer, Conrad Michel, Will. Rust, Ruth, Justine Franke.
" 7th volume, Messrs. E. A. Arring, Christian Buscheck, P. J. G. Böhm, Christoph Dörr[illegible], Jacob Fischer, Carl Phil. Germann, Christian Herrling, Dr. Hunger, Hahn, P. John Isensee, Madame Jockers, Carl Koch, Kratzer, Heinrich Landwehr, Adolf Melcher, W. Rödiger, Miss Angelika Röder, P. Rennicke, P. Erhard Riedel, Ferdinand Tönsing, Ernst Voth, P. Wichmann (2 copies).

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, bound in calf $2.
Kirchen-Gesangbuch für evang. luth. Gemeinden, welchem die sonn- und festtäglichen Perikopen beigefügt sind, published by the local Evang. Luth. Congregation U. A. C., in embossed leather binding, the copy 75.
The dozen $8 / 100 copies $62. 50 for cash payment.
A B C-Buch, New-Yorker Ausgabe, the copy 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, stitched and trimmed 15.
by the dozen $1. 50.
Spruchbuch zum kl. Catechismus Lutheri. Compiled by order of the Synod of Missouri etc. by Pastor Fr. Wynecken, the copy 15.
by the dozen $1. 50.
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn P. Graubau zu Buffalo v. J. 1840, together with the writings exchanged between him and several Lutheran pastors of Missouri 15.

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