# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 10 28_S33
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Der Lutheraner.

"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pure shall to eternity endure."

(Rev. 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 8.  St. Louis, Mo., October 28, 1851.  No. 5.

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 addressed 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.

First Report from Our Delegates in Germany.

It will be welcome and agreeable to the esteemed readers of the Lutheraner, and especially to the pastors and congregations of our Synod, to learn that our two delegates, after embarking at New York on the 27th of August on the English steamship Africa for Liverpool, by the good hand of our God and favored with excellent weather, landed in Liverpool, safe and in good health, on the 6th of September, at night toward 12 o'clock.

But as this day happened to fall precisely on the Saturday, they could not continue their journey until early Monday to Hull, situated on the east coast of England, where, after a swift journey through a splendidly cultivated and most beautiful country, straight across the whole of England, they arrived already toward evening on Monday.

Here, however, there was fresh delay, since the steamship for Hamburg did not sail until Wednesday the 10th. On the first day of the voyage they had the finest weather here also, and it was so warm that the summer awning was spread upon the deck; but the second day was very disagreeable; they had a very contrary wind, rain and a high sea, so that one of our friends became seasick, until they entered the mouth of the Elbe. On Friday the 12th, early in the morning, through the gracious preservation of God they arrived happily in Hamburg, and greeted, the one after a separation of thirteen years, the other after a separation of eight years, the old fatherland here for the first time again.

Here they learned, to their great regret, that the Synod of the Prussian Lutherans was not to be held this year, to which they would otherwise, had it fallen at this time, have set out at once; and since they felt themselves rather weary and worn, and their linen also needed cleansing, they resolved to rest for a few days with the relatives of Pastor Wyneken in and near Verden.

They therefore departed on the 12th in the afternoon for Harburg, situated diagonally across from Hamburg on the left bank of the Elbe in Hanover, and met here, to their great joy, four young men who, sent out by Löhe, were on their way to America, the one to take a pastoral office in Michigan, the other to place himself otherwise at the service of the Church, and two to complete their studies at Fort Wayne. On Saturday the 13th, in the forenoon, they arrived in Verden, where especially between Pastor Wyneken and his aged mother, nearly 80 years old, the joy of reunion was unspeakable.

In Hamburg, Harburg, and in and near Verden our friends met with many sincere, upright Lutherans, pastors and others, of all sorts of stations, in part old friends of Pastor Wyneken already, with whom they spent lovely and blessed hours in brotherly fellowship.

But the manifold tidings which they learned here of this and that gloomy and grievous condition of the Lutheran Church in Germany moved one of our brethren to close his first letter thus:

"We have as yet heard and seen little, but everything has convinced us how happy, how blessed we Lutherans and Lutheran preachers are in America, in comparison with the poor, oppressed, fettered, laced-in Lutherans and Lutheran preachers of unhappy Germany. There is distress upon distress, and indeed heavy, great distress, distress of conscience, of which in our glorious freedom we know nothing. The fat prebends, the ease, the comfort that are to be had here have truly for a Christian and Christian preacher little or nothing that is alluring; for to them there clings an almost intolerable burden of conscience, and a thousand and again a thousand difficulties in getting rid of it. O praise, praise God therefore, all ye who by God's gracious leading can in America serve your God undisturbed, and consider that thousands of your brethren, knowingly or unknowingly, languish day and night for that which ye enjoy in the richest measure."

Yes! we ought indeed to praise and thank our God, that our Church in this land, removed from the prison of the State beyond the sea and from the princely papacy, in sole obedience