# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 03 04_S112
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days, the unfortunate man had presently begun to rave, and while the priests wished to prepare him for death after their fashion, he only called out to them: "If we had now the 4000 gulden, we would well find counsel for the matter;" and after the Sacrament had nevertheless been given him in this condition, he at length lost his speech, and after a hemorrhage gave up his spirit miserably on the 10th of Feb. 1543.

So Veit Dietrich reports to Luther from Nuremberg in a letter dated the 16th of Feb. 1543.

From an evil, sudden death
Preserve us, dear Lord God!

Two Remarkable Prophecies concerning Our Time,

the one from a Christian, the other from a Philosopher.

"There will come now, and there are already ready at hand, those who will not believe that Christ is risen from the dead, nor sitteth at the right hand of God, and whatever more follows from Christ in faith. These will knock the bottom out of the cask and make an end of the play, for thereby the whole Christ will go down. And the world will hold nothing of the life to come. So then Christ is no more. For he who hopeth not for the life to come has no more need of Christ than the cows and other beasts of paradise, since Christ's kingdom is not, nor can be, upon earth."

(Luther in the Gebetbüchlein.)

Our world will yet become so refined that it will be as ridiculous to believe in a God as it is nowadays to believe in ghosts. And then again, after a while, the world will become still more refined. And it will go on with speed now, up to the highest height of refinement. Reaching the summit, the judgment of the wise will once more turn, the knowledge will be transformed for the last time. Then—and this will be the end — then we shall believe only in ghosts. We ourselves shall be as God. We shall know: Being and essence everywhere is and can only be — ghost. At this time the bitter sweat of earnestness will be wiped from every brow, the tear of longing wiped away from every eye: there will be nothing but laughter among men. For now reason has completed its work upon itself; mankind is at the goal: one and the same crown adorns the head of each of the co-glorified."

(Lichtenberg's [died 1799] Miscellaneous Writings. I. 166.)

Holy Scripture, the Only Judge in All Matters of Faith.

The Papists have always pointed, in order to prove the necessity of a supreme human interpreter and judge in the Church, to this: that a layman not trained in theology cannot possibly distinguish the right interpretation of Scripture from the false, and that even learned theologians never arrive at complete agreement herein; it is therefore foolish that in Protestantism the office of decision is given to Scripture and the Christian in the confusion of opinions is referred to it. Without a Pope, whose final decision is God's voice, one abandons the Church to the arbitrariness of interpretation of every inventive head. To this Chrysostom, that renowned teacher of the church of the fourth century, has already answered as follows: "Indeed, reason is not able to recognize and understand the divine truths in Holy Scripture aright, unless it be enlightened by the same Spirit who revealed these divine truths to men from the beginning, by the Holy Ghost. But this highest gift of heaven, without which all human striving and running is vain, is lacking to no one who only earnestly desires it, for the Saviour saith: 'Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? — and how should the Father of spirits withhold the Holy Ghost from his children who ask him for the bread for their souls'?" (Hom. 33 on the Acts of the Apostles). In another place the same Chrysostom writes: "He who constantly reads the Holy Scripture and dwells at the fountain of it, obtains great profit, which imparts itself from the root to his whole being, even if he has no expounder of the Holy Scripture."

The Christians.

They sojourn upon the earth, but their conversation is in heaven; they obey among all peoples the existing laws, but rise by their life above these laws, and in a word, what the soul is in the body, that the Christians are in the world. (Author of the Epistola ad Diognetum.)

Received

for the building of the Evangelical Lutheran Concordia College near St. Louis:

From Messrs. Salomon D. Henkel and Br. $3,00.

E. Roschke, Treasurer.

Received

1) for the Synodical Mission Treasury:

From an unnamed person in St. Louis $1,00.
„ Herr Huber, ditto 50.
„ Herr A . . . „ 2,00.
„ the Lutheran congregation in Collinsville, Ill. 2,15.
„ 4 little children in New York 1,15.
„ several Lutherans, ditto 6,44.
„ the schoolchildren in Addison, Ill. 1,27.
„ N. N. 23.
„ a member of the congregation of Herr Pastor Sauer 1.00.
Through Herr Pastor Keyl at Baltimore have been sent in by members of his congregation 77,00.

Further:

2) for the widow of the missionary Maier 30,00.
3) for the parsonage at Collinsville 26,00.
4) for the maintenance of the second professorship at the local Seminary:
in the month of November 1850 13,62.
„ „ February 1851 24,00.
Through Herr Einwächter, ditto, likewise from several members of the congregation for the same purpose 5,00.

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

for the 5th volume Herr F. Bühler.
„ 6th „ the Messrs. P. Baumgart, F. Bühler, P. Büttner, Deutschland, Andr. Drescher, Dr. Henkel, P. Horder, Sch[illegible]z, Weirich, and Martin Zimmer.
for the 7th volume the Messrs. P. Bippus, Chr. Brennecke, P. C. F. Decker, Bauer, Brodbeck, J. H. Budding, F. Bühler, Chr. Dißmar, J. H. Dennie, J. N. Drege, John Freier, J. Friedlein, Dr. S. G. Henkel, Jac. Hügly, P. Horder, (9 copies) P. Heinr. Isensee, Balthas. Lochlaas, Fr. Louis, Gottfried Müller, Phil. März, Ni[illegible]las, Radecke, W. Rullmann, Schlagenhauf, P. Sauer, (3 copies] L. Sauer, Ch. Schwerdtfeger, P. Sträter, Schindler, C. F. Schaible, Schulz H. Treute, H. Usinger, Gerh. Heinrich von dem Fange, Gerh. Heinr. Born[illegible]dt, Vogeln[illegible], [2 copies] P. Wichmann [3 copies], Weirich, Martin Zimmer.
for the 8th volume Herr P. Heinrich Isensee.

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 Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, with an Introduction and explanatory Remarks 5.
The dozen 50; 25 copies $1.
First Synodal Report of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, for the year 1847 10.
Second Synodal Report of the same Synod, for the year 1848 10.
Third Synodal Report of the same Synod, for the year 1849 10.
Third volume of the Lutheraner, 1846—47. No. 8—26. 50.
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Fourth and fifth volumes of the Lutheraner $1.
Christliches Concordienbuch, that is, Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, New York edition, bound in pressed leather $1. 25.
Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus, (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.
Kirchen-Gesangbuch for Evangelical Lutheran congregations, to which the pericopes for Sundays and festivals are appended, published by the local Evangelical Lutheran congregation U. A. C., in pressed leather binding, the copy 75.
The dozen $8 } for cash payment.
100 copies $62. 50 }
A B C Book, New York edition, the copy 10.
(The dozen $1.)
Johann Hübner's Biblische Historien from the Old and New Testaments. Unaltered reprint, New York edition, single copies 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 zum kl. Catechismus Lutheri. Compiled by commission of the Synod of Missouri etc. by Pastor Fr. Wyneken, the copy 15.
by the dozen $1. 50.
The Pastoral Letter of Herr P. 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.