# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 08 05_S193
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall not pass away, now or evermore." (Rev. of John, Chap. 14, v. 6, 7.)
Published by the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 7.  St. Louis, Mo., August 5, 1851.  No. 25.
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 it in advance and to 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.

(For the "Lutheraner.")

Ever Worse.

The kind reader will probably still remember a longer and a shorter article in the 21st number of the Lutheraner, both of which had reference to articles in a paper published in St. Louis, entitled "Freie Blätter."

Those articles have moved the publisher of the "Freie Blätter," a certain Mr. F. Schmidt, to write an article in the 17th number of his paper under the heading "Thou shalt not bear false witness," a closer consideration of which the kind reader will allow us to forgo, since by such an article the purpose of our earlier articles relating to the "Freie Blätter" seems to us to have been attained in such measure that we shall be spared, at least for a good while, if not forever, the odious business of occupying ourselves with such scribblings as Mr. S's articles are.

It never occurred to the "Lutheraner" to engage in "a battle" with the "Freie Blätter," as Mr. S. imagines, or at least pretends, any more than it occurs to watchmen on the battlements of a city to engage in a battle with the winds that blow against the walls; but our intention in our articles in No. 18 and No. 21 was, as we also declared, to prove that in Mr. S's Bible-hating articles ignorance and stupidity went hand in hand, in order thus, in the shortest and most concise way, both to satisfy the world, which in its prejudice might have taken our silence for weakness, and to serve those among Christians who in their weakness might have been grieved or troubled by Mr. S's papers. Mr. S. himself also furnishes, to our greater satisfaction, proof that we have not wholly missed our intention, in that Mr. S. not only states in a note to the article in question in the "Freie Blätter" "that the Wahrheitsfreund in its last number gives its readers word that the "Lutheraner" has succeeded in convicting the "Freie Blätter" of great ignorance and stupidity," but also in that Mr. S., as appears from that very article, has fallen into such a rage as only he can fall into who sees his nakedness uncovered.

The saddest thing for Mr. S. in the whole affair, however, is that the oftener he speaks out, the worse his cause becomes, in that he appears in an ever more pitiable light.

Besides the evil qualities of ignorance and stupidity, touched upon so often already, Mr. S., in his reply to our first article, as is said in our rejoinder in No. 21 of the Lutheraner, also let dishonesty as a newspaper writer show itself, and in the present articles he gives not only new proofs of the former evil qualities, but there now comes in addition the revelation of such a lack of all inner substance and all inner dignity as one may indeed expect in an enemy of the Bible.

As regards the latter, Mr. S. himself, in the present article, in his already once-mentioned Jürgen-fashion, gives us a plain hint, in that he compares himself to a man who is pursued in the street by teasing boys, against whom he raises his chastising arm, and since they indeed dodge aside but come out again from behind the next street corner, he pursues them once more. The kind reader will readily be able to think that the teasing, scolding boys are meant to be the articles in the "Lutheraner"; and that Mr. S. represents us thus to his readers need surprise no one, since he not only regards us as his enemies, but also affects a lofty, contemptuous tone. But this is truly remarkable, that he himself declares how he feels and how he means to conduct himself. We might say, to Mr. S's shame, that he therefore feels that he has such qualities as cause street boys to run after him, and that is truly no good sign; yet we will lay no weight upon it, since it is conceivable that even an honorable man may at some time meet with the like. But this Mr. S. certainly expresses with his comparison, that