# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 08 19_S207
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be reported over there also, that their disorderly running and creeping into the midst of existing congregations, which have their regularly called preacher and pastor, is straight against God's Word and order (1 Cor. 14:40). For even St. Paul, although he had an apostolic call, took it not upon himself to preach the Gospel where Christ's name was already known, lest he should build upon another man's foundation (Rom. 15:20). Would that they might at last comprehend that it is impossible for the Holy Ghost to drive those who, contrary to the order of the Holy Ghost in His Word, set themselves up as preachers and teachers where the holy ministry has already been established according to God's Word and order. Would that they might at last fear the threatening word of the living God, who testifies through St. James thus: that the unauthorized teachers shall receive the greater condemnation. (James 3:1.)

Evangelical Lutheran Popular Hymn.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, Rom. 1:16 — Gal. 1:8, 9, and consequently also not of the surname Lutheran.

1. Should I be ashamed of the name
Which the host of witnesses bears?
Should I grieve over it,
Whether friend and foe be stirred?
Let them foolishly unite,
I will joyfully proclaim:
God's Word and Luther's doctrine
Shall pass away nevermore.

2. For the pure, unadulterated doctrine
I will hold fast evermore,
And to my God's honor
Abide with the faithful host.
Therefore will I be called Lutheran,
Not merely glitter as evangelical;
Firm stands my ground of faith —
Let the mouth also loudly confess it!

3. O how needful, in these times
Of confusion, is it
That we decide with earnestness
For the whole Word from God.
Never is it right in these days
To say Yea and Nay at once:
Yea be Yea — and Nay be Nay,
So shall it be with Christians.

4. So also says the Church
Of God through the Holy Ghost,
She, the holy, the pure,
Who is today called Lutheran:
Beneath the Word she will bow
And testify the whole truth;
Be the error ever so small,
It must be put away!

I will hold with the Church
Though even through the shame
Hellish powers pursue
Even the little flock —
Be friend and foe against us:
Yet our songs extol
The Lutheran banner,
Zion extols it for ever and ever.

5. What the most faithful servants of God
In the One Spirit united,
What against all powers
They joyfully confessed unto death;
That will I, as they confess,
Call myself, as they Lutheran,
In spite of the many wiles of the foes;
So only am I wholly a Christian!

Against Pope and sectarian teaching
I glory in my faith:
God's Word and Luther's doctrine,
Yea, they abide for ever.
Even in outward defeat
The true Church will conquer:
Her "mighty fortress is God,"
And hell is put to scorn.

Fr. Weyermüller.
Niederbronn in Alsace.

Consequence of the Use of the Latin Language in Church Ceremonies.

Johann Warnefried relates in his writing on the Union between the Lutherans and the Romanists that he had known a Catholic whom a wanton Roman priest once, in jest, had baptized in Latin in the name of the devil instead of the triune God. Only many years afterward the matter came out, and the man was therefore not truly baptized until the age of thirty-odd years. How many poor Catholics there may be who suppose themselves to be baptized, communed, absolved, married, and the priest had only played his game with them!

When God is minded to be angry, and takes away His Word, no error is so gross but the devil gets through with it. For Mahomet's beginning also was gross enough; but because God's Word was not there, there came nevertheless such a harmful kingdom of it, as we see. Had Münzer (the head of the Anabaptists) also had luck, and God been ungracious to us, it would just as well have become a Turkish kingdom, as that of Mahomet has become. And in sum: there is no spark so small, when God is angry and will let the devil blow into it, but a fire can come of it that perverts the world and that no man can quench.

Luther.

Church News.

On the Thursday after Exaudi, the 5th of June, Mr. Gotthelf Reichardt, from the Prussian province of Saxony, until then a pupil of the Fort Wayne Seminary, after he had previously received a regular call from two German Lutheran congregations in Noble and De Kalb Co., Ind., and had passed the prescribed examination, was ordained in the midst of his congregation by me, with the assistance of Professor Crämer, according to churchly usage. The Lord grant also to this His servant a mouth of wisdom, that he may bring forth much fruit unto life eternal. Amen!

D. W. Sihler, Prof.
Vice-President.

After Pastor Ad. Detzer in Williams Co., O., had received a regular call from the Ev. Luth. congregation at Defiance, Henry Co., O., to serve it also, since it felt itself still too weak to establish the holy ministry among itself, and after he had accepted this call, he was, by appointment of the Vice-President, on the seventh Sunday after Trinity, solemnly installed in this new congregation by Pastor J. Trautmann from Adrian, Mich. God set him to be a blessing to it, for Christ's sake.

The German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Indianapolis begins its sessions this year on Thursday, the fourth of September, in the congregation of Pastor Busse near Manchester, Dearborn Co., Ind., not far from Lawrenceburg.

Th. Wichmann.
Secretary.

Invitation.

To the mission festival taking place on Tuesday the 26th of Aug. in Leipzig there will this time again, as in former years, be joined a conference for the consultation of general affairs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The undersigned, who, as residing at the place of the conference, are charged with the outward arrangements for it, believe that the signs of the times suggest the questions concerning church constitution and church government, in connection with the marks of the true Church, concerning the ministry, and pertinent points. In now calling upon all who stand livingly upon the confessional ground of our Church to take part, they request those who are inclined to make special proposals to send them in at the latest by the end of July, under the address of the first undersigned.

Dr. Kahnis. Dr. Lindner, Jr. M. Schneider.

Received
a. for the Synodical Mission Fund:
from Mr. Johann Ungemach in Zanesville, O. $3.00.
" Mrs. Gräbe through Rev. P. Saupert 1.00.
" Rev. P. Seidel in Neudettelsau, Union Co., O., and his congregation 2.00.
" Mrs. R. in St. Louis 2.00.
" members of the congregation there 13.80.
b. for the support of Concordia College.
from Mrs. R. 1.50.
c. for poor students:
from Mrs. R. in St. Louis 2.00.
d. in contributions toward the travelling expenses of the Delegates to Germany:
from the congregation of Rev. P. Lochner in Milwaukee, Wis. 30.00.
" the congregation at Altenburg, Perry Co., Mo. 10.10.