# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 12 23_S72
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saves, since the works do not save; or, although they know that faith without works is nothing, and is a false faith, and that fruit and good works must follow from it if it is upright, yet they go their way secure, and rely upon the grace of God, and fear not God’s wrath and judgment, who will have the old Adam crucified, and gather good fruits from good trees.

Although (I say) Paul perhaps designates by this word: children of unbelief — those who with vain words teach and hold that unchastity is not sin, as the blind heathen did; yet it must be said that all who also do as the heathen do, and live not chastely or gently, shall likewise receive the same reward, and this so much the more as they know what is wrong, as he says to the Romans, chapter 2: “Thinkest thou, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God, if thou doest the same things which thou condemnest in others? Yea, thou treasurest up unto thyself wrath through thy hardened heart.”

What the Papists Hold Concerning the Holy Scripture.

The Papists hold the Church — by which they understand the Pope and the Roman priesthood — in such high esteem that once Cardinal Hosius, against Brenz, defended the proposition: “The Holy Scriptures, if they lacked the authority of the Church, would be worth as much as Aesop’s Fables.” Further, the Jesuit Baile writes in his Controverscatechismus: “Without the authority of the Church I would not give more credit to Matthew than to Titus Livius” (a heathen historian). — This is also quite natural, for of the testimony of the Holy Ghost, which the Holy Scriptures give to the readers in their hearts, if they do not wilfully resist, and whereby these Scriptures themselves bear witness to their divinity, these poor blind people have experienced nothing. Compare John 7, 17. 1 John 5, 6.

A Strange Test.

When Rousseau, the well-known naturalist (died 1778), once in his youth became uneasy about how it would go with him after death, he threw a stone at a strong tree quite near him; if he hit it, he would take it as a sign that he would be saved, if he missed it, that he would be damned.

Raumer, in reporting this, adds quite rightly: “No wonder that he hit it.”

Church Notice.

Whereas the hitherto assistant preacher and schoolteacher of the Lutheran Trinity Congregation at Cincinnati, Pastor Fr. Eppling, has received a call to the Lutheran St. John’s Congregation near Troy, Spencer Co., Ind., and has accepted it with the consent of Pastor Wichmann and his congregation, he was introduced there on the 21st Sunday after Trinity by Pastor Saupert of Evansville.

In his place the congregation in Cincinnati has called as its pastor Mr. Friedrich Ottmann, from Bavaria, until now a pupil of the seminary at Fort Wayne, as assistant preacher and schoolteacher, who on the 1st Sunday in Advent was solemnly ordained in the midst of the congregation by Pastor Wichmann, with the assistance of Pastors Polack and Klinkenberg.

May the LORD set both for a blessing and create much fruit through them among young and old unto eternal life.

The address of the two brethren is:

Rev. Fr. Eppling, Troy, Perry Co., Ia.
Rev. Fr. Oltmann,
care of Rev. Th. Wichmann, Cincinnati.

☞ Mr. Jacob Trump, farmer, who is said to reside in the neighborhood of St. Louis, is requested to call upon me.

I now live in the house belonging to Mr. Renard, southeast corner of Third and Myrtle Street. Entrance from Myrtle Street, second stairs.

F. W. Barthel.

Received

a. for the Synodical Mission Fund:

From members of the congregation in St. Louis $9,85.
„ the Lutheran congregation in Collinsville, Ills. 3,50.
„ „ „ „ at Lamasco near Evansville, Ia. 4,45.
„ the St. Peter’s congregation of Rev. P. Saupert 2,60.
„ H. J. Dennis 1,00.
from the savings-box of a little girl in Cincinnati 25.
from the girls of the Immanuel School in St. Louis 2,50.
„ a woman in the former congregation of Rev. P. Schürmann 1,00.

b. for the support of Concordia College:
from the Lutheran congregation in Collinsville, Ills. 2,30.
the congregation at Freistadt, receipted too little in the previous number 50.

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

for the 6th volume, Mr. G. Willner.
for the 7th volume, Messrs. P. Eirich (2nd half), Wilhelm Bode, Fr. Heck, J. H. Thiemeier, H. Timmermann, H. Waltjen, C. Weigand.
for the 8th volume, Messrs. Julius Albrecht, Christian Busch, Wilhelm Bohde, E. Beck, H. Bäpler, P. Bansemer, J. R. Drege, G. Ebert, Friedrich Fischer, V. Horn, C. Horst, Wilhelm Heck, J. G. Krauß, Fr. Kleppisch, C. Karsten, Carl Kummer, C. Leutner, Fr. Leutner, Widow Lenz, J. H. Müller, Eberhard Muhly, J. Oehrl, A. Pabst, Conrad Prinkert, Radecke, P. E. A. Schürmann, J. G. Strobel, Friedrich Stutz, Feiedrich Thiemeier, J. H. Thiemeier, H. Timmermann, Wilh. Vogenitz, C. W. Vogelmann (2 copies), H. Waltjen, G. Wiedemann, Jacob Waldschmidt.

☞ In the Expedition of the “Lutheraner” are to be had:

28
Confirmation Certificates
with Bible verses and hymn verses, likewise with biblical pictures and marginal drawings.
Lithographed and published by
Leopold Gast.
Price: $1,00. for 28 sheets.
(New edition of the Confirmation Certificates already announced in the Lutheraner, Volume 5, No. 13.)

New Testaments, for the most part with the Psalter, Stuttgart, London and Hamburg edition, in small sixteenmo format;
in ordinary binding:
with the Psalms: 20 Cents, without Psalter 15.
in gilt edge:
Stuttgart and London edition 30.
Hamburg edition 35.
Without the Psalms, each copy 5 Cents less.

F. W. Barthel.

Books and Pamphlets

to be had in the Expedition of the Lutheraner at the prices set beside them.

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.
First Synodal Report of the German Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, of the year 1847 10.
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Synodal Report of the same Synod, each 10.
Third volume of the Lutheraner of 1846—47. No. 8—26. 50.
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh volume of the Lutheraner, each 50.
Christliches Concordienbuch, that is, Symbolical Books of the Evang. Luth. 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 Festivals of the whole year, New York edition, bound in calfskin $2.
Kirchen-Gesangbuch for Evang. Luth. Congregations, to which the Sunday and festival Pericopes are appended, published by the local Evang. Luth. Congregation U. A. C., in pressed leather binding, per copy 75.
The dozen $8, 100 copies $62. 50, for cash payment.
The same in smaller format with the same appendices and same binding, per copy 50.
The dozen $5,25, 100 copies $40,00, for cash payment.
Melodien deutscher Kirchengesänge after Dr. Friedrich Layritz 25.
ABC-Buch, and exercises arranged in proper gradation for learning to read, prepared for Christian schools, published by the Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States 10.
per dozen $1,00.
Johann Hübners Biblische Historien from the Old and New Testaments. Unaltered reprint, New York edition, singly 25.
per dozen $2. 6[illegible]
Dr. Martin Luthers Auslegung des 90. Psalms, stitched and trimmed 15.
per dozen $1. 50.
Spruchbuch zum kl. Catechismus Lutheri. Compiled by commission of the Synod of Missouri, etc., by Pastor Fr. Wynecken, per copy 15.
per 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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