# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 09 02_S1003
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Distortion of the writings of Luther, and a docile pupil of the Jesuits. 175, 1.

Papists, what they hold of the Scripture. 72, 1. — how they imagine the church to themselves. 127, 1.

Pope, according to Bellarmine a god on earth; if he commands vice and forbids virtue, the church must believe that vice is good and virtues evil, if it will not sin against conscience.

Pastor, whence his rights. 59, 1.

Duties and rights of teachers and hearers, whence they arise. 59, 1.

Philosophy, true, knows its limits and defects, is modest and humble toward divine revelation; against the deception of the false the true, great philosophers warn, such as Bacon, Boyle, Newton and others. 35, 1, 2. 3.

Sermon on several proofs of the truth of the Christian religion, by Prof. Biewend. Sermon on true progress by Prof. Walther. 129, 1. — Synodical sermon on the freedom of Christians from the arrogated dominion of the priests, a benefit of the Lutheran Reformation of the church. 178. 3. — a missionary sermon, delivered in Leipzig by Super. Nagel: „the heathen mission a sign of the times.“ 188, 1.

Ministry of preaching is the exercise of the spiritual priesthood in public service or office. 57, 1. — is instituted by God. 50, 1. 2. — is administered according to divine command and order. 59, 1 2.

Priesthood, spiritual, is publicly exercised through the ministry of preaching. 57, 1. — is the mediate cause from which the church's ministry or pastoral office then flows forth as its effect. 58, 3.

Priests, spiritual, are Christians, this is not Luther's doctrine, but God's, as Fresenius also testifies, this is put before Grabau. 199, 3.

Protestants, German, their church condition in New Orleans lamentable. 23, 3.

Dispute about rank and pride of title. 198, 1.

Rights and duties of teachers and hearers, whence they arise. 59, 1.

Reformation of Luther, a fruit of the exaltation of Christ. 4, 3. — Commemoration of its dawn. 69, 1. — before it, universal corruption in the church. 49, 1. 60, 1. 69, 1.

Reformed, practice ecclesiastical despotism, a cause of this. 112, 2.

Travel report of our delegates. 97, 1. 105, 1. 113, 1. 132, 1. 137, 1. 153, 1. 161, 1.

Reißner, Pst., news of his death. 39, 3. — a hymn by him. 47. 3.

Religion, Christian, proofs of its truth. 18, 3. 27. 1.

Religion of the atheists; atheism is either hypocrisy, or open blasphemy and mockery of all religion and virtue. 158. 159.

Faction, what is a faction? what a sect? what a heretic? 195. 196.

Ship, the ship of the church, Christ in it, hymn by Pst. Fick. 191, 1. 2. according to the opinion of the papists only the pope, cardinals, bishops and priests sit in it, no layman. 127, 1.

Power of the keys, whence it flows. 57, 1.

Scripture, holy, through the reading of it the papist P. Vergerius has become a Protestant. 31, 3. — and the Jew Gerson a Christian. 198, 2. — to its authority all true Christians submit, and all true great philosophers. 35. 1. 2. 3. — it calls the deniers of God fools. 48, 1. — what the papists hold of it. 72, 1. — from it it is proved that the ministry of preaching is the exercise of the spiritual priesthood. 57, 1.

Selneccer testifies that the doctrine of the Lord's Supper is no small matter, about which one ought not to begin a quarrel. 198, 1.

Epistle, to the Lutheran parents of this country on Christian training of children. 89, 1. 172, 1.

Socrates, the heathen, puts to shame, from the light of reason and of natural knowledge of God, the deniers of God and fallen Christians of today. 76, 3.

Estate, not a special, privileged, so-called spiritual estate, but the Christian estate has received the power of the keys from Jesus Christ. 58, 1.

Staupitz, Dr., teaches, rebukes and comforts Luther. 61, 3. 62, 1.

Voice of the Church of God against the seductive deniers of God and idolizers of the flesh of our time by Dr. Sihler. 185, 1.

Sinner, in Adam everything on earth is too good for him: in Christ everything too little. 56, 1. — for real sinners Christ is a real Savior. 61, 3.

Symbolical books, high value and right use of them. 4, 1. — their doctrine of church and office. 57, 1.

Sympathy, so-called, is nothing other than sorcery. 44, 1.

Synod, Evangelical German, of Pennsylvania, its latest report shows that it contradicts, in doctrine and practice, its confession of the unaltered Augsburg Confession.

Synod, what is a synod? 123, 2. — a free union of congregations for churchly purposes?

News of death of Pst. Reißner. 39, 3. — of the widowed Mrs. Pst. Löber. 183, 2.

Killing of heretics a sign of the Antichrist. 80, 1.

Fools are deniers of God. 48, 1.

Unbelievers are all in whom love and good works are not found. 64, 1.

Father Matthew in Pittsburgh. 2, 3.

Corruption, of the church before the Reformation testified by Roman Catholic writers. 49, 1, 60, 1. 69, 1.

Union, the Catholic Union or League of Germany. 46. 1.

Seductive deniers of God and idolizers of the flesh, voice of the Church of God against them 185, 1.

Vergerius, P., become a Protestant through earnest reading of the holy Scripture, and of the writings of the Church Fathers and Reformers, 31, 3.

Reason, and the mysteries of faith; reason cannot instruct the conscience sufficiently; therefore one ought to judge of divine things according to God's Word, not according to reason, 198, 2.

Preface, to the eighth volume of the Lutheraner, contains at the outset thanks to God for gracious help in the publication of the Lutheraner; declares its tendency and chief aim regarding doctrine, practice and ecclesiastical phenomena, 1; the saddest of these, the general apostasy, the denial of Christ, the prevailing rationalism, the massive corruption, as never before, 2; then takes a survey of the situation and condition of the church; position and relation of our Synod to the other Lutheran synods, 10; especially to the Buffalo Synod and its senior Grabau, 17, 1; mentions his synodical letters of the year 1850, rebukes his false doctrine of the holy office of preaching, 18, 1 and 2; and of the nature of the church; closes with a Christian wish and petition for and to the erring Grabau, and petition to God for preservation in the truth.

Truth of the Christian religion proved, 18, 3. 27, 1.

Warning against indifference and apostasy, from history and experience 5, 2.

Wisdom of simplicity, anecdote, 40, 1.

Contradictions, which the evangelical doctrine has in the eyes of the godless, 135, 3.

Winfrid, Boniface, Apostle of the Germans, reviled by Grabau, 198, 3.

Winkler, John, born 1656, his departure from the Papacy to the evangelical church, 6, 2. Reasons of his transfer 7 ff., 13 ff. Winkler, Pastor in Detroit, will not admit that he has been guilty of tyrannical conduct, 117, 118; makes use of a worthless, unchristian polemic against the editor of the Luth. 158, 2.

Sorcery is the so-called sympathy, according to the saying of the holy Scripture, 44, 1; 51, 1.

Sign of the times, a, the heathen mission and mission sermon delivered in Leipzig, 188, 1.

Time, in the last evil time the Gospel shall shine brightly, 5, 1.

Testimony of Luther, what the Church of Christ is essentially and properly, 41, 1.

Testimony that Melanchthon and Brenz also desired no worldly protection for their doctrine, 135, 2.

Testimonies of Roman Catholic writers concerning the corrupted condition of the church before the Reformation of Luther, 49, 1; 60, 1; 69, 1.

Letter of Pastor Grabau to Pastor Winkler examined, 157, 2.

Errata
in Number 26 of the „Lutheraner.“

Page 204, column 1, line 10, after the words: bewegt wird, the words are to be inserted: wenn derselbe gegenwärtig ist und er denselben hört.

Page 205, column 2, line 15, the numeral 1 is to be struck out.