# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1852 03 30_S128
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Doctrine and Life.

"But if they would say: 'We do not live as we teach, and have not such a spirit as brings forth such fruits': I should well like to have them say it; for thereby one could plainly perceive that it is not a good spirit that speaks out of them. We confess that ourselves, and there is no need to fetch it by a heavenly voice and a higher spirit, that we, alas, do not do all that we should. Yea, St. Paul, Gal. 5, 17, holds that never is everything done, because spirit and flesh are together and against each other on earth. But I can, by God's grace, point to many fruits of the Spirit among our people, and would also gladly set my own person alone, which is the least and most sinful, against all the fruits of the whole Allstedt (Anabaptist) spirit, if boasting were in question, however highly he (Münzer) may censure my life. But that one censures any man's doctrine on account of his frail life, that is not the Holy Spirit. For the Holy Spirit censures false doctrine, and bears with the weak in faith and life, as St. Paul teaches in Rom. 14, 1, and 15, 1, and in all places."

Luther.

Lay Obedience in the Roman Church.

Cardinal Bellarmine writes: "The Catholic faith teaches that every virtue is good, every vice is bad. But if the Pope should err and command vices and forbid virtues, then the Church is bound to believe that the vices are good and the virtues evil, unless it would sin against conscience. For in doubtful matters the Church is bound to rest in the judgment of the Pope and to do what he commands." (De pont. rom. l. IV. c. 5.) The Roman Catholic historian Paul Sarpi reports that this is a papal rule: "That the ruling Church is to be believed, even if it should say that that is black which appears white to the eyes." (Hist. interdicti Veneti lib. 2. p. 48.) Franciscus Toletus writes: "If a peasant believes his bishop, who in regard to the articles of faith sets forth a heretical doctrine, he earns for himself a merit by this faith, although what he believes is an error, because he is bound to believe until it is known that it is against the Church." (Instr. sacerd. l. 4, c. 3.) Most consistently, therefore, the greatest theologian of the Roman Church writes: "Job says: 'The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them' (Chap. 1, 14), because, namely, the lower, who are signified by the asses, must in matters of faith be guided by the higher, who are signified by the oxen." (Thomas II. q. 2. art. 2. §. 6. Sed contra.)

What Heart Pleases God.

At Wittenberg Mr. Lutherus visited a very sick student, and asked what he would bring to God when he should depart from this world. The young man said: All good, dear Father, all good. Lutherus answered: How canst thou bring Him anything good, since thou art a poor sinner? Then says the pious student: Dear Father, I will bring to God, the heavenly Father, a penitent, humble heart, sprinkled with the precious drops of blood of JESUS Christ. Thereupon Mr. Lutherus said: So depart, dear son, thou wilt arrive well and be a welcome guest to God, the heavenly Father, in heaven. — From Herberger's Herz-Postille.

The Bible.

When in the year 1546 Bugenhagen sent the Queen of Denmark a beautifully bound Bible as a gift, he wrote with it: "The Biblia has no defect, save only that it cannot study itself; it will be studied and read."

The Pastoral Conference of the St. Louis District will hold its next sessions on the 16th of April of this year and the following days at St. Louis.

Received
a. for the Synodical Mission Treasury:
from Pastor Eppling and his St. John's Congregation $4.20.
" his Trinity Congregation 2.50.
" the congregation of Pastor Baumgart in Elkhorn Prairie, Ill. 8.55.
" the congregation of Pastor Lochner in Milwaukie 5.00.
" the congregations of Pastor Fürbringer near Milwaukie 5.85.
b. for the support of Concordia College:
from members of the congregation of Pastor Keyl in Baltimore, collected for the maintenance of the 2nd professorship $3.00.
" the congregation of Pastor Lochner in Milwaukie 8.50.
c. for poor students:
from the congregation of Pastor Schliepsiek at Plaisant Ridge, Madison Co., Ill. 7.10.
F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid
for the 7th year the Messrs. L. Dannettel, Carl Hilskötter, Pastor Keyl, Johann List, Georg Willner.
" 8th Jacob Aichele, Adam Bach, G. Bauer, Franz Beebler, Gerh. Dierker, L. Dannettel, C. Dunker, Ellinger, Mich. Friedrich, Pastor Joseph Hartmann, Wilh. Hilskötter, Carl Hilskötter, Peter Henkel, H. Harken, L. Hofmann, Johann Imwalde, Kleinschmidt, Dietrich Kothe, Johann List, Friedr. Louis, G. Niklas, Roth, W. Rullmann, D. E. Radecke, Ritz, G. Reterer, Heinr. Steltzriede, C. F. Schaible, Mrs. Siegel, M. Seibold, C. Schwab, A. Siek, Fr. Stock, C. Schulz, H. Trende, C. Tegeler, Johann Weckesser, L. Waldschmidt, H. Winckelmann, Georg Willner.
the 2nd half of the 8
" 1st " " 9th year:
the Messrs. Anton Bade, Wilh. Brüggemann, Joh. Emmert, Christ. Jäger, Heinr. Schlosser, Heinr. Thomas, Friedrich Vehling and Carl Berg, Carl Wischmeier.
for the 9th year Mr. Carl Hilskötter.

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

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, year 5, No. 13.)

New Testaments, for the most part with the Psalter, Stuttgart, London and Hamburg editions, in small sextodecimo format;
in ordinary binding:
with the Psalms: 20 cents, without Psalter 15.
in gilt edges:
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 Luther's Small Catechism, unaltered reprint 10.
The dozen $1. Hundred copies $7.
The Constitution of the German Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, with an introduction and explanatory remarks 5.
The dozen 50; 25 copies $1.
First Synodical Report of the German Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, of the year 1847 10.
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Synodical Report of the same Synod, each 10.
Third year of the Lutheraner, from 1846 — 47. No. 8 — 26. 50.
(The 1st and 2nd years are out of print.)
Fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh year of the Lutheraner, each 50.
Conversations between two Lutherans on Methodism, (in pamphlet form) 1 copy 5.
Dr. Martin Luther's Tract on the True Church, 2 copies 5.
Dr. Luther's House Postil, or sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and festivals of the whole year, New York edition, bound in calf $2.
Hymn-book 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, the copy 75.
The dozen $8
100 copies $62. 50 for cash.
The same in smaller format with the same appendices and the same binding, the copy 50.
The dozen $5.25.
100 copies $40.00. for cash.
Melodies of German Church Songs after Dr. Friedrich Layriz 25.
A B C Book, and exercises arranged in proper gradation for learning to read, prepared for Christian schools, published by the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States 10.
the dozen $1.00.
Johann Hübner's Biblical Histories from the Old and New Testaments. Unaltered reprint, New York edition, single copy 25.
the dozen $2. 6[illegible].
Dr. Martin Luther's Exposition of the 90th Psalm, stitched and trimmed 15.
the dozen $1. 50.
Spruchbuch to the Small Catechism of Luther. Compiled at the direction of the Synod of Missouri etc. by Pastor Fr. Wyneken, the copy 15.
the dozen $1. 50.
The Pastoral Letter of Mr. P. Grabau at Buffalo of the year 1840, together with the writings exchanged between him and several Lutheran pastors of Missouri 15.
Letter of Dr. Martin Luther on the Appointment of Church Ministers, to the Council at Prague in Bohemia, of the year 1523, translated from the Latin by Paulus Speratus 10.
Timotheus. A gift for confirmed youth. Prepared after Hiller, bound 35.

Printed by M. Niedner,
North corner of Third and Chesnut Street.