# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 11 25_S56
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Whence Love toward God Flows in Believers, Which Encourages Them to Serve God Willingly.

It springs from the undeserved grace of the forgiveness of sins, which God shows them.

Through the preaching we come to this, that we become His people and such persons as are willingly obedient to God; for where it is heard that God will no more be angry with us, or condemn us for our sins' sake, as we had deserved, but offers and bestows upon us His grace and mercy, there the heart, which before fled from God and was His enemy, can now conceive a childlike, joyful confidence toward Him: and when man is thus comforted and raised up through faith, he gets new thoughts, new courage and mind toward God, begins to love Him and to call upon Him, and to wait for His help in all troubles; he gets pleasure and love in His commandments, and is ready, for God's sake, to do and to suffer what he ought. For he is now governed by the Holy Ghost, so that one need not drive him, or compel him with law and punishment, as before; and though the obedience also is still weak, yea, impure and imperfect, and much disobedience still stirs, yet he comforts himself with the grace and forgiveness through Christ, and strives and resists, by the help and power of the Holy Ghost, the sinful inclinations, and overcomes them, until sin and death have wholly ceased, and are put to death in this sinful and mortal body.

Luther.

Basket of Fragments.

"Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost." John 6:12.

As our dear LORD Christ was not only a rich host but also a thrifty housekeeper, so His own should rightly follow Him. And as the LORD in the kingdom of creation lets not a crumb be lost, so His children in the kingdom of grace should likewise do; and therefore the "Lutheraner" also will open a basket of fragments, into which he and others may cast this and that crumb which have fallen to them before from the rich table of grace of the LORD. And he will make a beginning therewith today.

For the sinner in Adam all on earth is too good, for to him belongs, according to God's righteousness, hell. For the righteous in Christ, however, all on earth is too bad; for to him is promised (and in justifying faith already possessed), according to God's grace, heaven.

Wouldst thou dispute aright, O man! of God's banquet of grace, then begin only with Christ's nail-prints.

The devil seeks in a threefold form to tear man away from faith in Christ, to ruin him in time and eternity, and to make him as wretched as he himself is; first, namely, as a roaring lion in the threats and persecutions of the world and in the terrors of conscience; then as a glistening serpent in the seductive false doctrines and crafty assaults; finally, however, and indeed here most dangerously of all, as an angel of light, especially in the implanting of spiritual pride, wherein he shows himself as at once the subtlest and strongest devil. For in not a few papistic and Methodistic work-saints this devil casts out, for example, the devil of avarice, of lust, and of wrath, and these also yield willingly to that one, whereupon he, in his powerful blinding, possesses so much the more securely those who have been blinded precisely by his false light.

A spiritual man, who has already risen spiritually with Christ and been set in the heavenly places, is directly the opposite of the carnal man, who is still spiritually dead; for he is a stranger in his home and at home in a strange land, poor in riches and rich in poverty, weak in strength and strong in weakness, low in height and high in lowliness, sick in health and healthy in sickness, sad in joy and joyful in sadness, yea, dying in life and living in death. Thus sweetly, though here below never fully, is he, according to the old man, dead to sin, and lives, according to the new, to God in Christ; for God's will alone is his home, riches, strength, height, health, and life.

Changed Address.
Rev. A. F. Knape, New Bavaria, Henry Co., O.

Received
a., for the Synodical Mission Treasury:
from Mr. Friedrich Schueller in St. Louis $ —50.
" members of the congregation there 12.25.
" the congregation at Schaumburg, Cook Co., Ill. 9.50.
" " " " Palatine " " " 2.50.
gathered at the Harvest Thanksgiving festival and sent in by Pastor Volkert
from Pastor Fricke and his congregation in Indianapolis 4.30.
" a member of the congregation in St. Louis .25.
" Mr. H. Thöle 1.00.
" the congregation at Adrian, Mich., sent in through Pastor Trautmann 2.90.
Collection at a wedding in Cold Water, Mich., sent in through Pastor Trautmann 2.10
b., for the support of Concordia College:
from Mr. Schuppan in Frohna 1.00.
" the congregation in Elkhorn Prairie, Ill. 8.00.
c., for poor students:
from Mr. Vos in Neumelle 2.00.
d. in contributions to the travel expenses of the Delegates to Germany:
from some members of the congregation of Pastor Fricke in Indianapolis 2.00.
from Rector Gönner 2.00.
" the congregation of Pastor Kunz in Elkgrove, Cook Co., Ill., subsequently 3.00.
" Mr. Wertmann in Neumelle 1.00.
F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid
for the 7th volume, Messrs. Ellerbusch, Pastor E. Greenwald (including volume 6), Pastor Hattstädt (3 copies), Johann Schmidt, Wilhelm Schnur in Evansville, Heinr. Thöle.
" 8th, Messrs. Claus Henry Aufdenbrink, Brennecke, Behme, P. Bippus, Darnstädt, G. Dörst, Pastor Fricke, G. Fischer, Pastor Kunz, Pastor Knape, Pastor Löber, Gottlob Müller (first half), Pastor Ottmann, Pastor Fried. Reiß, Pastor Schieferdecker, Schuppan, Gottfr. Schmidt, Gottlob Schmidt, Schwegmann, Heinrich Christoph Senne, Heinrich Stegkemper, Ernst Stegkemper, Settlage, Ludw. Sauer, Pastor Saupert, Heinr. Thöle, Pastor Volkert, Pastor Wichmann (13 copies), Wilke, Carl Staufenbeil, Pastor Wier, Pastor Leemhuis.

Books and Pamphlets
to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner
at the prices appended.

Dr. Martin Luthers kl. Catechismus, unveränderter Abdruck 10.
The dozen $1. Hundred copies $7.
Die Verfassung der deutschen evang. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. St. nebst einer Einleitung und erläuternden Bemerk. 5.
The dozen 50; 25 copies $1.
Erster Synodalbericht der deutschen evang. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. St. vom Jahre 1847 10.
Zweiter, Dritter, Vierter und Fünfter Synodalbericht derselben Synode, each 10.
Dritter Jahrgang des Lutheraners von 1846 — 47. No. 8 — 26. 50.
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Vierter, fünfter, sechster u. siebenter Jahrgang des Lutheraners, each 50.
Christliches Concordienbuch, d. i. Symbolische Bücher der evang. luth. Kirche, New-Yorker Ausgabe in gepreßtem Leder gebunden $1.25.
Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus, (in Pamphletform) 1 copy 5.
Dr. Martin Luthers Tractat von der wahren Kirche, 2 copies 5.
Dr. Luthers Hauspostille, oder Predigten über die Evangelien auf die Sonn- und Festtage des ganzen Jahrs, New-Yorker Ausgabe, gebunden in Kalbleder $2.
Kirchen-Gesangbuch für evang. luth. Gemeinden, welchem sonn- und die festtäglichen Perikopen beigefügt sind, verlegt von der hiesigen evang. luth. Gemeinde U. A. C. in gepreßtem Lederbande, each 75.
The dozen $8, 100 copies $62.50, for cash payment.
The same in smaller format with the same appendices and the same binding, each 50.
The dozen $5.25. 100 copies $40.00. for cash payment.
Melodien deutscher Kirchengesänge nach Dr. Friedrich Layritz 25.
A B C-Buch, und in gehöriger Stufenfolge geordnete Uebungsstücke zur Erlernung des Lesens, für christliche Schulen bearbeitet, im Verlag der ev. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio und anderen Staaten 10.
by the dozen $1.00.
Johann Hübners Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente. Unveränderter Abdruck, New-Yorker Ausgabe, singly 25.
by the dozen $2.60.
Dr. Martin Luthers Auslegung des 90. Psalms, broschirt und beschnitten 15.
by the dozen $1.50.
Spruchbuch zum kl. Catechismus Lutheri. Im Auftrage der Synode von Missouri ꝛc. zusammengetragen von Pastor Fr. Wyneken, each 15.
by the dozen $1.50.
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn P. Grabau zu Buffalo v. J. 1840 nebst dem zwischen ihm und mehreren luth. Pastoren von Missouri gewechselten Schriften 15.
Brief Dr. Martin Luthers von Einsetzung der Kirchendiener an den Rath zu Prag in Böhmen vom Jahre 1523. aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt von Paulus Speratus 10.
Timotheus. Ein Geschenk für die confirmirte Jugend. Bearbeitet nach Hiller, gebunden 30.

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