# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 02 04_S96 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 96 Jesus. When on the blue arch of heaven Over land and ocean’s billows Warm and mild the sun doth shine: Fair it is; yet greater rapture Gives another Sun, Jesus, who unites us with God. When the moon in silence of the night On mountains, valleys, blossoming boughs Pours out her silver light: Rests softly the world below, Yet there is a better peace, Which flows from Jesus’ heart. Kindly shine, to God’s glory, The countless hosts of stars Upon us from the far distances of heaven; Yet with brighter light And with gracious countenance Shines Jesus, our Morning Star. Behold the rock rising in the sea! Though storm and billows beat upon it, It defies them, strong and firm. It passes away some day; never trembles Our Rock, unshaken Remains he who trusts in Him. When the winds of spring blow, And the flowers rise again, Lovely in fragrant splendor of color: — More beautifully shines in the sanctuary, Jesus, our flower of heaven, Whence God’s grace smiles upon us. In the day’s hot sultriness The fountain refreshes in shady coolness, Which wells up with fresh water: Believe in the Prince of Life, And thou shalt not thirst again, Forever shall thy heart be stilled. Many seek here on earth To become rich in money and goods, And make for themselves only much sorrow. More than gold and pearly sheen, More than all diamond sparkle Doth Jesus refresh my heart. What can this world give me? Ah, it hath indeed no life itself, It is death’s swift prey. Its honors, they are vain, Its joys short and fleeting, Its treasures vain dust. And the beauty which it hath, All the adornment which it bears, Is lent to it by Jesus, Who is the Creator of all things; Yet all is too little In comparison with Him. As the stars all grow pale When the sun’s beaming signs Move through the meadows of heaven: So the world loses its charms When my heart at Jesus’ cross Beholds His great love. Jesus, God and man united! More lovely is nothing found Than Thou, fairest Son of man! Life itself, light and truth, Love itself in highest clearness Art Thou, our throne of grace. Thou hast given Thyself wholly to me, Who lovingly didst sink Thyself Into my poor flesh and blood. In Thee I have full sufficiency Even in my last agonies, Jesus, Thou my highest good. Hermann Fick. Human Doctrine and Commandment in the Church. No man can sufficiently consider what a dreadful abomination human teachings are. Let the jurists teach the world; when the world is pious, and no murderer, whoremonger, adulterer, or usurer is any more to be found therein, then we will dispute with them. Let the physicians also attend to their calling. So also let each one do what is commanded him. For in the Church none of that is to be suffered, but God’s Word alone is to rule there. So God also commands: Thou shalt have no other gods. Therefore the Canones “(Church commandments)” are straightway against God. Now God says: In the Church I will be God alone; which cannot come to pass, if I do not also alone speak in the Church. Otherwise the Sabbath, the name of God, faith and majesty of God soon go to the ground. Luther on John 3, 27. Crowned Fidelity to the Faith. Philip V offered the Princess Wilhelmine Charlotte of Ansbach the honor of becoming Queen of Spain; but for this honor she was to sacrifice her evangelical faith and become Catholic. To this, however, the Princess believed she could in no way consent. When she therefore asked the godly Spener for counsel, he earnestly advised her against renouncing the Gospel for the sake of a crown, and at the same time gave her, with truly prophetic faith, the assurance “that if her God had chosen for her the rank of a queen, it would be granted her without such denial.” Shortly afterward the Princess Wilhelmine Charlotte became the consort of George II, King of England. Sonntagsbl. Church Notice. Whereas Pastor Fricke, having accepted, with the consent of his former congregation, namely the German Ev. Luth. St. John’s Congregation at White Creek, Bartholomew Co., Ia., the call extended to him from the German Ev. Luth. St. Paul’s Congregation in Indianapolis, the former candidate of the holy ministry, Mr. Rudolph Klinkenberg, has been called to his place, and on Monday after the First Sunday after Epiphany, that is, on the 13th of January, was solemnly ordained by Pastor Fricke, with the assistance of Pastor Sauer, before the assembled congregation, and installed in his new office, with obligation to all the Symbols of our dearly beloved Ev. Luth. Church. May the faithful God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ abundantly bless the newly called pastor, as well as the congregation entrusted to him, and preserve them in His grace unto the end. Amen. The post-office of Pastor Klinkenberg is: Columbus, Bartholomew Co., Indiana. That of Pastor Fricke: Indianapolis, Indiana. Received for the Synodical Missions Treasury: From the congregation of Rev. P. Claus at Neumelle $ 16,00 „ „ St. John’s Congregation at Philadelphia, through Rev. P. Hoyer 9,00 „ „ congregation of Rev. P. Schliepsiek in Plaisant Ridge, Ills, 2,50 „ two members of a congregation in St. Louis 1,75 „ the Ev. Luth. congregation at Bethlehem Church in Bremen, Mo. 6,15 „ the Ev. Luth. congregation of Rev. P. Trautmann in Adrian, Mich. 3,00 F. W. Barthel, Treasurer. Paid for the 6th volume, Mr. Heinrich Welker. „ 7th „ the gentlemen Christian Bohn, Phil. Boben, Matth. Ambrosius, Christian Graß, Nicol. Manling, Andreas Menges, E. D. Nölting, Georg Pfeiffer, Michael Sus, Jakob Toussaint, Phil. Zabel. Books and Pamphlets to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner at the prices appended. Dr. Martin Luther’s Small Catechism, unaltered reprint 10. The dozen $1. Hundred copies $7. The Constitution of the German Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, together with an Introduction and explanatory Remarks. 5. The dozen 50; 25 copies $1. First Synodical Report of the German Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, of the year 1847 10. Second Synodical Report of the same Synod, of the year 1848 10. Third Synodical Report of the same Synod, of the year 1849 10. Third Volume of the Lutheraner, of 1846—47. No. 8—26. 50. (The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.) Fourth and Fifth Volume of the Lutheraner $1. Christliches Concordienbuch, that is, Symbolical Books of the Evang. Luth. Church, New York edition, bound in embossed leather $1. 25. Conversations between Two Lutherans on Methodism, (in pamphlet form) 1 copy 5. Dr. Martin Luther’s Tract on the True Church, 2 copies 5. Dr. Luther’s Hauspostille, or Sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and Festivals of the whole year, New York edition, bound in calfskin $2. Church Hymnal for Evang. Luth. Congregations, to which the Sunday and festival pericopes are appended, published by the local Evang. Luth. Congregation U. A. C. in embossed leather binding, per copy 75. The dozen $8 100 copies $62. 50 for cash payment. ABC Book, New York edition, per copy 10. (The dozen $1.) Johann Hübner’s Biblische Historien from the Old and New Testaments. Unaltered reprint, New York edition, singly 25. by the dozen $2. 60. Dr. Martin Luther’s Exposition of the 90th Psalm, stitched and trimmed 15. by the dozen $1. 50. Spruchbuch to the Small Catechism of Luther. Compiled at the request of the Synod of Missouri etc. by Pastor Fr. Wyneken, per copy 15. by the dozen $1. 50. The Pastoral Letter of Pastor Graubau at Buffalo of the year 1840, together with the writings exchanged between him and several Lutheran pastors of Missouri 15. Printed by Moritz Niedner, Northeast corner of Third and Chestnut Street.