# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 05 27_S153
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall now and nevermore pass away." (John, ch. 14, vv. 6, 7.)
Published by the German Ev. Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Year 7.  St. Louis, Mo., May 27, 1851.  No. 20.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks, at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for out-of-town subscribers, who are to pay the same in advance and bear the postage. — In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 cents.
Only those letters which contain communications for the paper are to be sent to the editor; all others, which contain business matters, orders, cancellations, money, etc., are to be sent hither under the address Mr. F. W. Barthel, care of C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo.

Preface of the Editorial Office
to the following articles concerning the West Ohio Synod.

To make demands upon an editor that he accept a rejoinder against an article of his own paper which contains not merely a simple correction, but a flood of abusive words, personally insulting attacks and gross calumnies, this is to the highest degree unfair, unjust, yea, — we must say it plainly — impudent. A man of even moderate education, if passion has not made him blind, will never make such demands upon the editor of a periodical, and every editor has the fullest right to decline such bold presumptions without further ado. In a similar case the editor of the "Lutheraner" found himself when, some weeks ago, the submission printed below from Prof. Lehmann came to him. It put him in no small perplexity. The submission was evidently not suited for a truly Lutheran paper, but rather for papers such as the "lutherische Kirchenbote" is. We therefore transmitted it to Professor Dr. Sihler with the request that he advise us. The latter then declared that the submission might by all means appear in our paper, yet of course at the same time with the most necessary notes to the text. The reasons for this procedure in this case we also were obliged to acknowledge; we therefore promised already in the last number to comply with Prof. Lehmann. The dear readers will be pleased to put up with this, considering that they hereby receive a document for the history of the American Lutheran Church of the present day; but the West Ohio Synod, we hope, will not charge it to us, but solely to Mr. Lehmann, if this gentleman's would-be defense redounds so long to their dishonor, so long as they do not publicly rebuke this their apologist for his ill-advised officiousness. At the same time, however, we make known and give to understand to all those who have a desire to write against the "Lutheraner" that it is a paper not for the vilification of Lutheran doctrine and practice, but for their defense and for the public rebuke of all false doings, especially of that which would cover itself with the Lutheran name. Whoever therefore does not wish to write in this spirit, let him spare us his submissions. To revile upright Lutherans and true Lutheran doctrine and practice, for that there is surely no need of our "Lutheraner"; for that there are surely the "lutherische Kirchenbote," the "Missionsbote" and other messengers in plenty.

(Submitted.)
The Western Ohio Synod and Dr. Sihler's "Memorable Account."

Since Dr. Sihler, without being called to it, has permitted himself in the Lutheraner of March 4 a rude attack upon the Western Synod of Ohio, in which several gross violations of truth and justice occur; and since also many of his earlier criticisms of this Synod testify to a like officiousness; therefore the Herr Lutheraner, who but a short time ago took up the cause of plain speaking, will, it is hoped, not refuse to the undersigned in his columns a defense of the accused.

The so-called "Denkwürdigkeit" (memorable account), namely the report mentioned concerning the Ohio Synod, is false; unjust; loveless; presumptuous; slanderous; carnal; unluthe-

(Submitted.)
The Defense of the West Ohio Synod, Which Has Turned Into a Self-Accusation, by Mr. Prof. W. F. Lehmann in Columbus.

Professor Lehmann has, with or without commission of the West Ohio Synod, sent forth against my "Denkwürdigkeit" contained in No. 14 a defense, which the Lutheraner has also, with my consent, accepted, in order that I might, to the honor of the truth, at once briefly furnish the reply.

To 1 and 2. My report is not "false and unjust;" for what does outward confession to the symbols of the Church avail? What sort of remarkable progress is it, if the Synod also disapproves and rejects the building of union churches and the forming of united congregations, since, as before, the practice of the Lord's Supper contrary to the Confession remains standing, the Ohio preachers continually administer the holy Supper to the Reformed, as such, and content themselves with this, that these of the Lutheran