# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 12 09_S64
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Whether All Are Rejected as Unbelievers in Whom Love and Works Are Not Found.

Yes, for Luther writes as follows: "Because man abides in Christ, and receives from Him sap and strength, and through faith retains that the Holy Ghost works in him with His power and His gifts, the remaining weakness, which is stirred up by the devil and the sinful nature, must not harm him, yet so that he resist it with constant struggle of faith, and sweep such evil out. But if thou wouldst let go or pervert the doctrine of faith (like the Papists and other sects), and fall away from Christ to thy own holiness, or live openly in sins and in shame, and yet wouldst boast of the Gospel and of the Christian name, thou shouldst know that thou art a false branch, and hast no part in the vine, but with wood and fruits wilt be condemned and cast away, and belongest to the everlasting fire.

How a Believer Must Also Do Good Works.

Wouldst thou be held before God and the world for a true Christian, who does not merely carry Christ on the tongue, or upon paper, or read Him written in a book, but has Him thoroughly in the heart: then think that thou prove it with deed and with life before every man, that thy love serve and help the others; when this is there, and such people as do this speak and boast of their faith, then believe that it is true. But these do not do so, boast and cry not much, but this is commonly their speech, I would gladly be a Christian, and hear the Gospel and God's Word well, but it will, alas, not go so according to it, and I feel that the two, speaking and doing, word and life, are still far apart from one another. Preaching, speaking, writing, singing, reading I can do well enough, but here is the lack, that it will not get into the heart with such strong living faith and fervent love.

A Christian Principle.

Matthias Flacius, this steadfast fighter in a time when even the heroes sank away, but this man also shamefully slandered, on account of his faithfulness to the Word, by many lukewarm men and shoulder-carriers of former and later times, writes in the year 1550 to Milichius: "I desire most earnestly to be at one with all men, but in Christ; if that cannot be granted me, then I will be at one with Christ, even if I had to have all men for enemies."

What Luther Actually Holds Good Works to Be.

Fruits of true faith. Upon faith, renewal and forgiveness of sin follow good works. And what in them is still sinful or defective, that shall not be reckoned for sin or defect, even for the sake of the same Christ; but man shall be called and be righteous and holy, whole, both as to the person and as to his works, out of pure grace and mercy in Christ, which has been poured out and spread abroad over us. Therefore we cannot boast the merit of our works, if they are looked at without the grace and mercy of God, but, as it is written: He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord, that is, that he has a gracious God, then it is all good. We say also further, that where good works do not follow, then the faith is false and not right.

Question and Answer.

In No. 4 of the tenth volume of the "Lutherischer Kirchenbote" is contained the glorious testament of the beloved Lutheran hymn-writer Paul Gerhardt, but the following passage in the letter to his son is deliberately omitted:

"Above all things beware of the Syncretists (mixers of faiths and churches, called nowadays "Unirte" or "Evangelische"), for they are true neither to God nor to men."

Why, then, did the "lutherische Kirchenbote" omit this very noteworthy warning? Answer: because it was Lutheran.

Changed Address.
Rev. F. Besel, Benton P. O., Holmes Co., O.

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a. for the Synodical Mission Treasury:
from Mrs. Widow Kalkmeyer in Hunterswille, Franklin Co., Ia. $5,00.
" a member of the congregation in St. Louis 50.
" Mr. A. B. T. 5,00.
b. for the support of Concordia College:
from the congregation at Altenburg, Perry Co., Mo. 8,00,
" the congregation at Freistadt near Milwaukie 7,00.
c. for poor students:
from the congregation at Minden, Washington Co., Ills. 2,65.
" the Young Men's Society in St. Louis in the months of June to November of this year 87,55.
d. as contributions to the travel expenses of the Delegates to Germany:
from a member of the congregation in St. Louis 1,00.
F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

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for the 7th volume, Messrs. Gottlieb Göhring, Samuel Kämpfe, C. F. Goldammer (2nd half).
for the 8th volume, Messrs. Christ. Dißmar, Past. Theod. Dresel, Gottfr. Burkhardt, Dietrich Thöle, Heinr. Kaufmann, Jacob Krieg, Wilh. Pieper, Heinrich Sievers, Gottl. Sauer, C. F. Goldammer (1st half.)

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Dr. Martin Luther's small Catechism, unaltered reprint 10.
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Melodien deutscher Kirchengesänge nach Dr. Friedrich Layritz [illegible].
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Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn P. Grabau zu Buffalo of the year 1840, together with the writings exchanged between him and several Lutheran pastors of Missouri 15.
Letter of Dr. Martin Luther concerning the Installation of Church Ministers, to the Council at Prague in Bohemia, of the year 1523, translated from the Latin by Paulus Speratus 10.
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