# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1852 03 02_S105
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's teaching shall pass away now and nevermore." (Rev. of John, Chap. 14, v. 6. 7.)
Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Vol. 8.  St. Louis, Mo., March 2, 1852.  No. 14.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks, at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for out-of-town subscribers, who are to pay in advance and bear the postage. — In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 cents.
Only those letters which contain communications for the paper are to be sent to the editor; all others, which contain business matters, orders, cancellations, money, etc., are to be sent hither under the address Mr. F. W. Barthel, care of C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo.

Travel Report of the Editor.

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On Saturday toward evening, the 20th of September, we arrived, as already noted, in Leipzig. The writer of this was soon convinced, to his great joy, that a great change, and indeed a change for the better, had taken place here since the time of his former residence in this city. For everywhere there appear here the traces of the great blessing in which Dr. Harless in particular labored here during the short time of his activity as teacher at the university here and as pastor at the church of St. Nicolai in this place. At the university Dr. Harless' successor, Herr Professor Dr. Kahnis, is at present endeavoring to carry on the work of blessing that was begun. Under the direction of the latter there continues, among other things, the numerous student association founded at the instigation of Dr. Harless under the name "Philadelphia" (brotherly love, Rev. 3, 7—13), which has the purpose of establishing a more intimate fellowship among those students (including also those not studying theology) who, amid the currents of human opinions, hold fast to the good foundation of faith of our Evangelical Lutheran Church and desire to preserve themselves in it. This association is the more important and gratifying because the young men, in their mutual spiritual helping of one another, have in view the practical more than science, although precisely among them the greatest earnestness and zeal in study make themselves known. To this it must be added that those who have entered the association remain members of the association even after the completion of their studies, and therefore, as they gather more and more experience in the spheres of labor assigned to them, and become grounded deeper and deeper in faith and knowledge, serve the association also in this way by means of a maintained correspondence. Pastor Ahlfeld has come in the place of Dr. Harless as preacher at the Nicolai church. Since he was called hither from Halle, that is, from the united church of Prussia, and since he also, as is well known, formerly took up an adversarial position toward the faithful separated Lutherans of Prussia, as may be seen from the Hallisches "Volksblatt" which he edited for some years, we attended the morning service conducted by him on the day after our arrival only for this reason, that in the morning hours there was no opportunity to hear a decidedly Lutheran preacher in the city; for sad to say, the dear M. Hänsel, who formerly belonged to the most decided believing preachers of Leipzig, and to whom the writer of this owes much as his dear teacher, has gone not forward but backward, and now belongs to the opponents of the decided Lutherans. Pastor Ahlfeld, however, delivered a beautiful, edifying sermon in a plain, vigorous style, so that we could only rejoice to see the great and glorious church crowded full with attentive hearers. Among the hearers was also Herr Commissionsrath Dr. Marbach, who had noticed us and, as we were just about to leave the church, came up to us and greeted us. Dr. Marbach belonged, namely, to us Saxons who emigrated to Missouri thirteen years ago, and, dissatisfied with the ecclesiastical conditions then developing here, soon returned to Germany again. However reserved the first mutual conversation was, it soon became so hearty, and ended with loud praise of God from both sides. For although we had been led by God along very different ways, and although on both sides we have now come to quite other convictions on many important points than we formerly had, yet we found ourselves again in a great, deeply grounded unity of faith and spirit. Contrary to our hope and expectation, therefore, there were prepared for us in Leipzig, precisely in the circle of the dear family of Herr Dr. Marbach — for his consort is likeminded with him — hours of the highest enjoyment, to the strengthening of faith and love. In the afternoon we then heard Herr Pastor Dr. G. Schneider (the present editor of the Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Missionsblatt) preach in the Neukirche, after which we, in the