# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1852 05 11_S145
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall pass away now and nevermore." (Rev. of John, ch. 14, v. 6, 7.)
Published by the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 8.  St. Louis, Mo., the 11th of May 1852.  No. 19.
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 the same 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.

(Continuation.)

Already in the 14th number of the current volume we mentioned that the Court Preacher in Chief, Dr. Harleß, when we had reminded him of the so pressing need of an enlargement of our preachers' training institution at St. Louis, immediately came to meet us with the kind offer to furnish us with letters of recommendation to Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Bavaria, and to her confessor, Dean Ritter Burger in Munich, for the procuring of a general church collection in the Lutheran churches of Bavaria, since such a collection may be arranged only with the permission of the government. The less we ourselves had thought of such a way, on which a desirable support might come to us, the less did we dare to decline the unsought offer. We afterwards consulted about this also with Pastor Löhe, the professors at Erlangen, and the believing pastors in Nuremberg and Fürth; and since these also were all of the opinion that we should take the way pointed out to us, indeed, the latter in particular promised themselves much good from a contact between the representatives of our church here and the representatives of the Bavarian Lutheran church, and Prof. Dr. Thomasius also promised us at once an introduction to Oberconsistorialrath Dr. Boeckh in Munich by a similar letter of recommendation, we set out in God's name at last on the 10th of November by railway, by way of Nördlingen, Donauwörth and Augsburg, for Munich. The first visit we paid on the following day to Dean Burger, explained to him the purpose of our appearing, and handed over our letters of recommendation received in Dresden. The Dean at once promised us, with great obligingness, his best mediation and invited us to dine with him the next day; he declared himself so much the more willing to promote a support by means of money, since he too did not wish that we should induce good believing candidates of Bavaria to enter the service of the American Lutheran church. He too complained of a lack of such, and told us among other things that in the examination, held lately at Ansbach with his co-operation, of the students applying for the theological candidacy (if I remember rightly) eleven of them were rejected as having failed the examination. Certainly, a sad testimony of the ruinous effect of the political agitation of the last years upon the studies of many of the young academics; yet just as gratifying a proof that now many of those who preside over the church in Germany, in spite of the ever more perceptibly growing absolute lack of candidates for the ministry, are not disposed to entrust every dissolute so-called student with a parish after the completion of his course of study, or at least, according to the lamentable custom here, to furnish even every untried man with a dangerous trial by means of a license. It is true that Dean Burger is pastor of the "Protestant" congregation at Munich, and he has not yet been able to resolve to demand of each member the express declaration that by his entrance into the congregation and by his participation in the holy Supper therein he renounces every other communion of faith and goes over to the Lutheran church; nevertheless he assured us that he also preaches decidedly the distinctive doctrines of our church, such as that of the real presence of the body and blood of JESUS Christ in the holy Supper, in opposition to the Reformed doctrine, of the power of holy Baptism to regenerate, and the like. The Dean also belongs to those who on account of this their confession regard all their hearers as Lutherans, and yet do not wish to tell them so, out of concern lest they frighten them away.

From Dean Burger we now went on to Oberconsistorialrath Dr. Boeckh, where we handed over the letter of introduction given us by Professor Thomasius. We must confess that to have come to know this man of high position more closely will be to us all our lives a most pleasant and dear remembrance. The same