# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 04 15_S136
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Peter, full of the Holy Ghost, thus of baptism, 1 Pet. 3, 20, 21: Wherein (namely, in the ark of Noah) few, that is, eight souls were saved by water; the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Herewith Peter does not say that baptism signifies the salvation which we otherwise receive in another manner, but he says plainly, baptism saves us. But that we may not think that baptism saves us in the same manner as God, the Holy Scripture testifies to us in many places that God is the highest and sole Author of our salvation, as Is. 43, 11: I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. Also the Apostle Peter himself shows us whereby baptism has this, that it saves us, namely: by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For he who is baptized is thereby received into the fellowship of the death and of the resurrection of Christ, Rom. 6, 3, 5: Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. The baptized person is therefore regarded by God in no other way than as though he himself had endured the atoning death of Christ for himself, and as though he had risen in and with Christ from death and from all sins, and been justified. For it is written, Gal. 3, 27: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Holy baptism is therefore no independent giver of grace apart from and beside God, but it is a means of grace ordained by God, whereby the Holy Ghost imparts and appropriates to us Christ with all the goods which He has obtained for us by His life, sufferings, death, and resurrection. And the same holds true also of the Sacrament of the Holy Supper.

(To be continued.)

(Submitted.)

Church News from Northern Illinois.

Most Reverend Professor!

It is to me no small joy to be able to announce to you and to the readers of the "Lutheraner" the formation of a new congregation in this region.

For since a number of families who had hitherto attached themselves to my congregation as members lived too far from the church buildings to be able at all times to take due part both in the divine services and especially in the school instruction, and were thus deprived in large measure of the blessing of church and school, the same have united with several other Lutheran families into the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Rodenberg. The new congregation called Pastor Hermann Kühn (hitherto pastor of the colony Frankenhilf) as its pastor, and the same was, by commission of the Vice-President, installed in his office by the undersigned, with the assistance of Pastor Küchle, on Sunday Oculi.

May the LORD of all mercy be shield and protection also to this little flock of His fold, and richly bless the labor of our dear brother.

The LORD be with you and yours

F. Hoffmann

Schaumburg, Ill., March 25, 1851.

Address: Rev. H. Kuehn
Rodenberg, Bloomingdale P. O.
Du Page Co. Ill.

The True Wise Man According to the Judgment of the Holy Martyr, Huss.

"The wise," writes Huss, "have the custom, when a difficulty comes up with regard to a truth, of first considering what the faith of the Scripture says on this point; and what the Scripture determines, that they hold fast as an article of faith. But where the Holy Scripture decides nothing on either side, they let it alone, as not concerning them, and they dispute no further over it on whose side the truth is. And that is the great prudence of the wise." (In the writing against the Roman indulgence.)

Mark it, dear reader, that was the highest principle, guiding him in everything, of a man whom the Roman Church condemned as an accursed heretic to death by flames; yea, that was the principle, the holding fast to which on Huss's part was the real and sole cause why prelates of that blood-dripping church let the dear man die at the stake, after they had refused him an advocate, so that he had to cry out to his judges: "So be the LORD my advocate and defender, He will soon judge you." This has already come to pass, and this judgment will be executed one day upon all who in the papistical church still subscribe to the sentence of death passed upon Huss, by the applause which they give it and by the defense which they bring forward for it.

Confirmation.

"The dying of the old and the rising of the new man — this chiefly, properly, is what shall take place in the preparation of the confirmands, wherefore it is called preparation. Would not this, however, be the confirmation itself? Answer: He who is not confirmed before he is confirmed will hardly be confirmed when he is confirmed". Claus Harms.

Correction.

In some copies of the preceding Number 16 the following misprints have remained. Read
Page 123, col. 1, line 15 from bottom: Petrus instead of Paulus.
" 124, " 3, " 5, " " in the note, des instead of der.

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