# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 06 24_S176
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The Divine Distance.

For some, Christ is indeed born, died and risen again, but not yet ascended into heaven. They are devoutly disposed all day long, weep at their prayers, sigh at their meditations. Everything is solemn to them, and a continual Hallelujah they hear resounding in their hearts. They must be weaned from this milk, they must learn to eat solid food, and it is good for them that Christ goeth away. But when will they understand this? They complain of desolation, of the withdrawal of grace. Yet let them only wait a while, let them tarry in the city until they be endued with power from on high, as the apostles at Pentecost rose to a lofty stage of love, where they no longer sought after tears, but found their delight in triumphing over evil and in treading Satan under their feet. —

Bernhard.

Spiritual Watchfulness.

Often Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, in the beginning of their conversion lets men feel all his goodness: Then they turn wholly from the world, and will live only for him. But they are still weak, like young plants in May. Therefore frost and mist harm them at this time. Frost falls upon them, "when they would be and seem to be something, when they hold themselves worthy of divine consolation and think they have deserved such happiness; but mist surrounds them when they would remain constantly in the sweet feeling and rest. For thereby the light of reason is darkened, the powers which ought to be open and bear blossoms and fruits close, and the knowledge of the truth is hindered.

Ruysbroek.

Of the Cross and Suffering.

Were suffering not painful, it would not be called suffering. There is nothing more painful than suffering, and nothing more joyful than to have suffered. Suffering is a short sorrow and a long love. Hadst thou all the art of the astrologers, couldst thou speak as highly of it as the tongues of all men and angels, it would not further thee so much to a good life as if thou canst give and resign thyself to God in thy suffering. Behold, the noble soul flourishes through suffering, like the fair rose through the morning dew. Suffering is a rod of love, a fatherly stroke to the elect. Patience in suffering is a living sacrifice, is greater than to raise the dead or to do other signs. Suffering clothes the soul with a rosy garment, adorns her with a green scepter of palm; in eternity she sings with sweet voice and free courage a new song, which the host of all the angels cannot sing, because they have never felt suffering. —

Suso.

Voice of Advent.

Oftentimes the prophets announced the coming of the Lord; many heralds went before him, but they were always only rich in promises. One said: Wait on the Lord, be of good courage and not discouraged, and wait on the Lord! Another: "Though he tarry, wait for him, he will surely come! Isaiah became almost impatient and said: "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down," and David had passed from the petition itself into the tone of command, when he cried out: Cast down thy heavens and come down!" Thus the whole choir of the prophets, weary as it were of longer waiting, now beseeching, now complaining, now commanding, had made known their wishes. At last the Desired One came and shut their mouth. "Now the voice of the church shall rise, it shall cry aloud: God and man has appeared in Jesus Christ."

Hildebert, sermo II. in Epiphan. Dom.

Whoever wholly denies himself is so received into God that whatever may befall him must first touch God, since he is in God and God in him. As the drink cannot reach the palate until it has flowed over the tongue, and as it learns to taste what it moistens the tongue with, so for him who gives himself to God everything that may happen to him acquires a savory taste, and becomes wholly divine. Though ever so great a sorrow befall him, he bears it lightly, since he receives it as from the Lord, not from the hand of him who has caused it to him; and through the Lord nothing bitter can pass! —

Ruysbroek.

The Resurrection of the Flesh.

Urbanus Regius, the old, upright friend of Luther, had introduced in his house that, whenever his children recited the Creed (the Apostolic Symbol) and came to the words of the third article, "the resurrection of the flesh," they must point with their fingers to their breast. By this he wished to impress upon them early the important and comforting article, that one day the same body which we now bear, only transfigured, will rise again.

Confession of an Atheist.

The materialistic atheist de la Mettrie makes, among others, the following confession: "I confess that all my philosophy avails me nothing, that I should not despise death as the saddest necessity of nature: and I wish that I could banish forever this thought, which so casts me down. For I seem already to cease to be, as often as I think that I shall one day not be". (Abregee des Syst. 48.)

Judgment of a Heathen on Atheism.

So writes the heathen Cicero: "Whoever does not perceive that the soul and understanding of man, his reason, deliberation and prudence have been prepared by a purposeful divine activity, to him it seems to me that he lacks these very things himself." (Lib. II. de N. D.

One should not be silent under slanders, not that one may avenge oneself by one's contradiction, but that one may not grant falsehood an unhindered course, and may not leave those who have been misled thereby in the harm which they suffer thereby:

[illegible] Basilius M. (Ep. 31.)

Books and Pamphlets
to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner
at the prices annexed.

Dr. Martin Luthers kl. Catechismus, unaltered reprint 10.
The dozen $1. One 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, Dritter und Vierter Synodalbericht derselben Synode, each 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, bound in pressed leather $1. 25.
Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus, (in pamphlet form) 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, with the Sunday and festival pericopes appended, published by the local evang. luth. congregation U. A. C., in pressed leather binding, the copy 75.
The dozen $8 } for cash payment.
100 copies $62. 50 }
A B C-Buch, New-Yorker Ausgabe, the copy 10.
(The dozen $1.)
Johann Hübners Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente. Unaltered reprint, 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 at the commission of the Synod of Missouri etc. by Pastor Fr. Wyneken, 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.
Brief Dr. Martin Luthers von Einsetzung der Kirchendiener an den Rath zu Prag in Böhmen vom Jahre 1523, translated from the Latin by Paulus Speratus 10.
Timotheus. Ein Geschenk für die confirmirte Jugend. Adapted from Hiller, bound 30.

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