# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 11 11_S48
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48

With power and emphasis teach.
Not to us, not to me, nay, to thee it is due,
That men praise thee, triumph in thee,
Give honor to thy name.
And to me
Give here
Humility, love, impulses of grace, shepherd's faithfulness
And the true consecration of the Spirit.

So wilt thou then go with me,
And then let it also soon come to pass,
That I be sent
To the flock which thou hast allotted me,
To the office which thou hast granted me,
Yea, lead me without hindrance
To it,
Which to thee
Shall blossom, shall glow for thee alone
As foundation and cornerstone of the congregation!

Hold me in thy right hand
The power and pledge of the Holy Spirit
I implore for myself for teaching,
Confirm me from within,
But let also outwardly itself
Very powerfully prove true,
That I
By thee
Be fitted, richly adorned with the gifts,
Such as faithful shepherds have.

How the Faith Which Worketh by Love Is Now Found in Few.

Where are they who love God, (asks Luther) and do not cling to money and goods? Look at the whole world, even those who are called Christians, whether they despise money and goods? It will take pains to hear the Gospel, and also to do accordingly. We have the Gospel, God be praised, this no one can deny. But what do we do about it? We think only of this, that we know how to talk about it, nothing more comes of it, and we let ourselves suppose it is enough that we know it: we have no concern that we should also some day do accordingly. If any one were to lose a gulden or two, he is anxious, and fears lest the money be stolen from him, but the Gospel he could do without for a whole year. And here there is no such diligence and earnestness as to how we may keep it, that it may not be taken from us.

The world cannot hide its unbelief in the gross, outward sins: for one sees that it loves a gulden more than Christ and all the apostles, even if they themselves were there and preached. I can hear the Gospel daily, but it brings no daily profit in me, yet it may well come to pass, when I have heard it a whole year, that for one hour the Holy Ghost gives me the same; if I now obtained this hour, I should obtain not merely five hundred gulden, but more than all the world can give me; for what should I not have, if I had the Gospel? I should have obtained God, who makes silver and gold, and everything that is on earth. That is much more than if I had the church full of gulden.

How Luther Does Not Hold Him to Be a Believer Who Does Not Prove His Faith by Deed.

It is not possible, (he answers,) that he should not love and do good who holds Christ to be a righteous Saviour. But if he does not do good, or does not love, then it is certain that faith is not there. Therefore a man is known by his fruits, what kind of tree he is, and by love and works it is proved what Christ is in him, and whether he believes in Him.

Therefore faith blots out sin in a very different way from love; faith blots it out by its own deed alone; but love and good works prove and demonstrate that faith has done this, and that it is there, so that Paul also may say, 1 Cor. 13: Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing, why? Without doubt, because then faith also is not there, for they do not remain apart from one another: therefore see to it that you do not let yourself be led astray, but let yourself be led from faith also to works.

"With what will you convince me of the contrary, if I assert to your face: There is no God?" So once asked an insolent denier of God the venerable Bishop Borowsky in Königsberg. "I do not know whether I should give myself special trouble on this account and not rather leave the answer to Holy Scripture, in which indeed you are already spoken of." — Of me? — "Yes, yes, of you, and indeed Psalm 14, 1." The Bible was brought and read aloud: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."

Received

a. for the Synodal Mission Treasury:
from the congregation of Rev. P. Nützel, collected at the harvest thanksgiving festival $6,00.
" Mr. Langbein in St. Louis 50.
" Rev. P. Habel in Pomeroy, O. 4,00.
" Mrs. R . . . in St. Louis 2,00.
Proceeds of a collection sent in through Rev. P. Lochner 8,00.
from his congregation in Milwaukie 3,00.
" Mr. Garbisch there 1,00.

b. for poor students:
from Mr. Garbisch in Milwaukie 1,00.

d. for contributions to the travelling expenses of the Gentlemen Delegates to Germany:
from the congregation in Centreville, Ills. 6,35.
" the congregation at Freistadt near Milwaukie 5,00.

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

the 6th volume: Mr. Wippel.
the 7th volume: the Messrs. Erk, Heinrich Gerken, Georg Greb, Jacob Hofstädter (2nd half), Ludwig Jung, Joh. Jockel, Johannes Kuhl (2nd half), Wilh. Launhardt, Ott and Köster, Rausch, P. J. C. Schulze.
the 8th volume: the Messrs. Böhning sen., Böhning jun., Bergmann, Jacob Fischer, Heinr. Gerken (1st half), P. Grabau, W. Harmeyer, Widow Hartmann, Hölter, Johannes Kuhl (1st half), Ernst Kuhlmann, Kraffert, P. Lange, Geog. Legler, P. Quast, Ph. Reinhardt, P. Schulze, Heinrich Trier, [illegible] Wichmann, P. Winkler, Jacob Weber.

Changed Addresses.

Letters to Frankenmuth, Frankentrost and Frankenhilf are henceforth no longer to be sent under the address:
Bridgeport P. O.
but:
P. O. Frankenmuth, Saginaw Co., Mich.

Books and Pamphlets

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

Dr. Martin Luthers kl. Catechismus, unaltered reprint 10. The dozen $1. Hundred copies $7.
Die Verfassung der deutschen evang. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. St. with an introduction and explanatory remarks 5. The dozen 50; 25 copies $1.
Erster Synodalbericht der deutschen evang. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. St. of the year 1847 10.
Zweiter, Dritter, Vierter und Fünfter Synodalbericht of the same Synod, each 10.
Dritter Jahrgang des Lutheraners of 1846 — 47. Nos. 8 — 26. 50.
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Vierter, fünfter, sechster u. siebenter Jahrgang des Lutheraners, each 50.
Christliches Concordienbuch, that is, Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, New York edition bound in pressed leather $1. 25.
Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus, (in pamphlet form) 1 copy 5.
Dr. Martin Luthers Tractat von der wahren Kirche, 2 copies 5.
Dr. Luthers Hauspostille, or Sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and Feast Days of the whole year, New York edition, bound in calf $2.
Kirchen-Gesangbuch für evang. luth. Gemeinden, to which the Sunday and festival pericopes are appended, published by the local Evang. Luth. Congregation U. A. C., in pressed leather binding, the 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, the copy [illegible].
The dozen $5,25, 100 copies $40,00, for cash payment.
Melodien deutscher Kirchengesänge according to Dr. Friedrich Layriz 25.
ABC-Buch, and exercises arranged in proper gradation for learning to read, prepared for Christian schools, published by the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States 10.
by the dozen $1.00.
Johann Hübners Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente. Unaltered reprint, New York edition, single copies 25.
by the dozen $2. 60.
Dr. Martin Luthers Auslegung des 90. Psalms, stitched and trimmed 15.
by the dozen $1. 50.
Spruchbuch zum kl. Catechismus Lutheri. Compiled at the commission of the Synod of Missouri etc. by Pastor Fr. Wyneken, the copy 15.
by the dozen $1. 50.
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn P. Grabau zu Buffalo v. J. 1840 together with the writings exchanged between him and several Lutheran pastors of Missouri 15.
Brief Dr. Martin Luthers von Einsetzung der Kirchendiener an den Rath zu Prag in Böhmen vom Jahre 1523, translated from the Latin by Paulus Speratus 10.
Timotheus. A gift for the confirmed youth. Prepared after Hiller, bound 30.

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