# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 08 05_S200
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But servants of Christ must above all take care what the Lord of Hosts says to it, who will soon call us away to the eternal recompense.

If, therefore, venerable friend, without having a commission from the Church, you could easily allow what is to the injury of our whole Church and of your fatherland; then I beseech you, for the sake of the benefits which the divine goodness has so richly bestowed upon you, and for the sake of your eternal salvation, that you would proceed somewhat more slowly in the work of church union and learn of God what pleases God. Time will teach many things, experience some; and you will one day confess that good counsel is not lightly to be esteemed. Farewell, dearest brother, and warn, reprove and rebuke me again. You shall not so soon admonish the erring as I shall follow the one who admonishes. Farewell once more. God govern us with His Spirit.

Gotha, the 21st of June 1720.

Contributed.

Whither Denial of God Leads at Last.

Mr. Schmidt is not ashamed to praise in his Freie Blätter the abominable lie that there is no God as the highest truth. Whither, however, this denial of God leads at last, the history of the French Revolution of the last century shows us by a plain example. In the Weltgeschichte of Becker, vol. 12, p. 294, it is stated thus: “The slightest sign of a religious act was a capital crime . . . At Arras a person sixty years old was executed merely because she had prayed.

But this abomination of desolation was yet to be put in the shade by the greater one of a new worship. The destroyers of Christian church life invented the worship of Reason, and celebrated the same for the first time on the 10th of Nov. 1793 in the church of Notre-Dame. A harlot was driven half-naked, as goddess of Reason, upon a triumphal car to the altar, and on it was honored with hymns and incense, then veiled and carried in solemn procession upon an armchair wreathed with oak leaves into the Convention. Chaumette begins his address: ‘Fanaticism has run away; to Reason, to Truth, to Justice it has left its place; its squinting eyes could no longer bear the brightness of the light. We have taken possession of the temples which it forsook, and given them a new destination. For the first time the people of Paris appeared today in those Gothic vaults which for so many centuries had repeated the voice of error and at last once resounded with the cry of truth. We have sacrificed there to Liberty, to Equality, to Nature. Not vain images, but a masterpiece of Nature we have chosen to represent Nature, and this holy image has inflamed the hearts of us all. One single wish, one single prayer resounded from all sides: No priest more, no other gods than those which Nature offers us! Mortals, cease to tremble before the impotent lightnings of a God whom your imagination created! Acknowledge no other Deity any more than Reason, whose noblest and purest image I hold up before you.’ At these words the orator unveiled his goddess, who was at once invited to take her seat beside the President, and received from him and from the secretaries, amid loud shouts of jubilation, the kiss of brotherhood. According to Chaumette’s motion the metropolitan church was given over to the worship of Reason, and at the close the whole assembly of the legislators betook themselves thither, to sing in the new temple a hymn of Liberty composed by Chénier, which closed with the patriotic exhortation to the heroes of freedom to sanctify the Terror, that the last slave might soon follow the last king into the grave.

For several months this farce was repeated not only in Paris but in all the cities of France; the churches became scenes of the most unworthy proceedings; young modest girls saw themselves compelled to attend the same in company with the most despicable women. The heaviest sacrifice was reserved for timid beauty; it consisted in representing the goddess of Reason in a costume which embarrassed even the dancers of the Paris Opera. Not seldom this part fell to an unfortunate orphan whose parents had only just bled upon the scaffold, and several commissioners of the Convention were inventive in refining these shameful festivals for lasciviousness.

The dear reader sees therefore that it is no indecency when the Lutheraner charges Mr. Schmidt with seeking, by his denial of God, only to promote, on his part also, the brutalization, demoralization and dehumanization of mankind, but the fullest, purest truth. For everyone who will see, the French Revolution furnishes the sad proof that men, with the denial of God, lose also their moral hold, and at last sink into the deepest abyss of depravity and unreason. May Mr. Schmidt go into himself; may he listen to the voice of his conscience, which will surely not yet be wholly mortified in him. We sincerely pity the unfortunate man who is so forsaken of all reason that he dares to deny his God, and who is so blinded by the devil that he blasphemes the Almighty.

Received

a. for the Synodical Mission Treasury:

from Mr. Herm. Heinrich Niemann in Pittsburgh $50.
„ „ Johann Heinrich Niemann there 50.
„ „ Rudolph Auf der Heide there 50.
„ „ B. H. Voskamp there 50.
„ the branch congregation of Rev. P. Müller near Manchester, St. Louis Co., Mo. 8,25.
„ the congregation at Pleasant Ridge, Madison Co., Ills. 5,55.

b. for the support of Concordia College.

from Mr. Schoolteacher Johannes in New Bremen 25.
„ „ Roth in Frohna, Perry Co., Mo. 1,00.
„ „ Weinhold there 1,00.

c. in contributions to the traveling expenses of the Delegates to Germany.

from the congregation at New Bremen, additional 75.
„ Rev. P. Schwan 1,00.
„ „ P. Trautmann in Adrian, Mich., and his congregation 7,00.
„ the congregation of Rev. P. Ernst, Erie Co., New York 11,00.
„ the congregation of Rev. P. Jäbker, Allen Co., Ja. 10,00.
through Rev. P. Klinkenberg from individual members of his congregation 6,00.
from the congregation of Rev. P. Steinbach in Liverpool, Medina Co., O. 4,00.
„ Rev. P. Johannes and his congregation in Jefferson Co., Mo., on account 16,00.
„ the congregation at Frohna, Perry Co., Mo., on account 8,0[illegible]
„ the Lutheran congregation in St. Louis 445,60.
F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

for the 6th year: Mr. Fr. Heinicke,
„ 7th „ Messrs. Billner (2nd half), Fr. Heinicke, Roth, Roßwag, P. Strasen, Balthas. Weigan[illegible] Weinholdt.
for the 8th year: Messrs. Georg Lüders, P. Schwan, Balthas. Succop.

New Addresses.

Revd. Ferd. Steinbach, Liverpool P. O. Medina Co. O.
Revd. August Weyel, P. O. Chelsea, Will Co. Ills.

☞ The undersigned takes the liberty of calling the attention of the dear readers of this paper to the fact that the Kirchen-Gesangbuch for ev. luth. congregations, published by the ev. luth. congregation U. A. C., can now be had also in a smaller format, both from him and from Messrs. H. Ludwig and Co. in New York, at the prices set down below.
F. W. Barthel.

Books and Pamphlets

to be had at the office of the Lutheraner at the prices appended.

Kirchen-Gesangbuch for evang. luth. congregations, to which the Sunday and festival pericopes are appended, published by the local evang. luth. congregation U. A. C., in pressed leather binding, per copy 75.
The dozen $8, 100 copies $62. 50, for cash payment.
The same in smaller format with the same appendices and the same binding, per copy 50.
The dozen $5,25. 100 copies $40,00. for cash payment.
ABC-Buch, New York edition, per copy [illegible]
(The dozen $1.)
Letter of Dr. Martin Luther on the Appointment of Church Ministers, to the Council at Prague in Bohemia, of the year 1523, translated from the Latin by Paulus Speratus [illegible]
Timotheus. A Gift for the Confirmed Youth. Adapted from Hiller, bound 30.

☞ For the other books and pamphlets, please consult the previous number.

Printed by Moritz Niedner,
North corner of Third and Chesinut street.