# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1852 01 06_S80
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When a boarder in Flattich's house had broken his foot, and his mother, complaining of the poor supervision, declared that she would bear none of the costs of care, the pastor's wife said to her maid after the mother's departure: "If the mother will give nothing, we will nurse him the more carefully; I will myself watch with him, and reward thee for thy night watches." She had wholly the principle of her husband, to do precisely that which comes hardest to nature.

(Wölbings christliche Geschichten.)

The Killing of Heretics.

Thus writes the Church Father Jerome: Christ killed no one, but was killed; he gave no blows, but received buffets. Whoever therefore is killed (for the truth's sake) is a follower of Christ, whoever kills is a follower of Antichrist." Herewith a Church Father, upon whom the Papists set so much store, has himself pronounced sentence upon them and their Pope.

Brockenkorb.

The Papists and the enthusiasts, although they bitterly oppose and hate one another, are nevertheless spiritual cousins and blood relations. For since both of them are not wholly and altogether poor sinners in Adam, that is, do not recognize themselves as such, so they both also seek in part the righteousness before God in the works of the law, set up piecemeal their own merit alongside, and thus against the Lord Christ's alone-sufficient and all-sufficient merit, and so can become no truly righteous in Christ. For only then can they from sinners become righteous, from the accursed blessed, from the dead living, from the condemned saved, when they lay hold of God's grace in Christ, of Christ himself and his merit, which is dispensed in the holy Gospel together with the Sacraments, solely and exclusively by means of faith, appropriate it and hold it fast, without any supposed co-operation of the works of the law before and of the works of love afterward.

For this reason, then, both, the Papists and the enthusiasts, from the same ground of partial self-righteousness and work-righteousness, finer or coarser, of spiritual pride and self-confidence, though at variance among themselves out of party hatred, are nevertheless again at one among themselves in common hatred against the pure Gospel, and especially the doctrine of justifying faith founded therein, this kernel and star of the third article, the appropriation of salvation in Christ. For this reason, further, both are at one in hatred against the orthodox church, now called Lutheran, which confesses and teaches the comforting and saving evangelical truth of this article of justifying faith pure and unadulterated, and firmly and unmoved maintains and defends it against both.

"And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves." Luke 23, 12.

It is noteworthy that the firstfruits of the saved in the New Testament was a hitherto gross and great sinner, namely the thief on the cross, but the firstfruits of the damned in the New Testament a called apostle, namely Judas. And it is further noteworthy that the Apostle St. John, whom the LORD loved, who faithfully held out beneath his cross, to whom he committed the care of his mother, who for Christ's sake and in fervent love in return toward his LORD and Savior for so many and long years in the works of faith, in the labor of love, in the patience of the cross, in soul and body continually offered himself to Him, who had first also given himself up as a sacrifice for him — it is noteworthy that this aged holy Apostle, Evangelist and Prophet, to whom the LORD, as his seer in holy pictures and histories, opened the future of his kingdom on earth, at last, when the LORD came and took him home, became partaker essentially of no other blessedness than the thief on the cross, even though the degree of his glory was higher.

But the one as well as the other should give us a new insight into the nature of the Gospel, since all, all, in the beginning, middle and end is grace in Christ — which may well be lost, but can never be earned.

Change of Address.

(Belated.)

Rev. A. Selle, Crete P. O. Will Co., Ill.

Received

a. for the Synodical Mission Fund:

from the congregation of Rev. Schliepsiek at Plaisant Ridge, Ill. $6,65.
" three Unnamed 2,50.
" Mrs. R. 2,00.

b. for poor students:

" the congregation of Rev. Link in Neu-Bielefeld, Mo. 4,65.

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

for the 6th year: Messrs. Rev. Gräbner ($3,88.), Jacob Rinker, Johannes Ungemach.
" 7th year: Messrs. Christian Alt, Joh. Geo. Birkner, Jacob Rinker, Wilh. Ruth, Rev. Spieß, Johann Stege, Joh. Ungemach, Heinrich Ungemach, Rev. zur Mühlen.
" 8th year: Messrs. Joh. Geo. Birkner, Rev. Dumser, David Hahn, Dietrich Hellwege, Mrs. Jockers, Christ. Kuhlof, Conrad Kalbfleisch, Ludw. Kimm, Friedr. Kanne, Rev. Link, Ludwig Muhn, Christian Puscheck, Rev. Schwankowsky, Hermann Schäfer, Nicolaus Schäfer, Conrad Tadje, Johannes Ungemach, Zehlhöfer.

To be had at the Expedition of the "Lutheraner":

28 Confirmations-Scheine

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 editions, in small sixteenmo format;

in ordinary binding:
with the Psalms: 20 cents, without Psalter 15.
gilt-edged:
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 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., together 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.
(Volumes 1 and 2 are out of print.)
Vierter, fünfter, sechster u. siebenter Jahrgang des Lutheraners, each 50.
Christliches Concordienbuch, that is, Symbolische Bücher der evang. luth. Kirche, 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, oder Predigten über die Evangelien auf die Sonn- und Festtage des ganzen Jahrs, New York edition, bound in calfskin $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, per 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, per copy 50.
The dozen $5,25.
100 copies $40,00. for cash payment.
Melodien deutscher Kirchengesänge nach Dr. Friedrich Layriz 25.
A B C-Buch, und in gehöriger Stufenfolge geordnete Uebungsstücke zur Erlernung des Lesens, für christliche Schulen bearbeitet, published by the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States 10.
per dozen $1.00.
Johann Hübners Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente. Unaltered reprint, New York edition, single copy 25.
per dozen $2. 60.
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. Wyneken, 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 Luth. 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 confirmed youth. Adapted after Hiller, bound 30.

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