# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1852 06 08_S161
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pass away now and nevermore." (Rev. 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.
Year 8.  St. Louis, Mo., June 8, 1852.  No. 21.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for subscribers out of town, who must pay the same in advance and bear the postage. — In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 cents.
Only letters containing communications for the paper are to be sent to the Editor; all others, however, containing anything of a business nature, 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.

Report of the Editor's Journey.

(Conclusion.)

Our apprehension that we have already wearied our dear readers not a little by the length of our report of the journey may well be a thoroughly just one. We will therefore, hastening to the close, put the matter as briefly as possible, reserving for another time and occasion the communication of the reflections which press themselves upon us from the experiences just gained in Germany.

On the 28th of November, preparing for our return journey, we still spent in Nürnberg, where we received many proofs of cordial love from the families Zeltner, Reuther, Fabricius, Fleischmann, and especially from the dear family Volk. On the following day we went by railway as far as Leipzig, where we parted. Pastor Wyneken, namely, traveled on, without now stopping in Saxony, while I stayed overnight here with Dr. Marbach, and on the next morning, in order to speak once more with the Court Chaplain-in-Chief Dr. Harleß, made an excursion to Dresden. Since the first Sunday in Advent happened to fall on that very day, I was granted the joy of hearing the Court Chaplain-in-Chief preach, and I must say, whoever knows the manner of preaching of this altogether distinguished preacher only from his "Sonntagsweihe"* of the year 1848, as was the case with me up to that time, can hardly form the right idea of the blessed efficacy of the same in his present office as Court Chaplain-in-Chief. I confess it was to me no otherwise than as if I heard an apostolic man proclaiming the Word in Athens. I did not know what I should admire more, whether the popularity (comprehensibility to the common people) of his preaching, joined with nobility of diction, or the compelling to come in (Luke 14, 23) and the pastoral taking hold of the little spark which may perhaps, through the grace of the Holy Ghost, be glimmering in the heart of the hearer, joined with the earnestness and power of an unreserved testimony against the apostasy that has taken place. Naturally the rich evangelical sermon which I now heard in the court church at Dresden, where thousands of hearers of all classes, head to head, listened motionless to the mighty voice of the imposing figure, made an especially deep impression upon me, since I had previously heard an Ammon in this place deliver his philosophemes, with all the pomp of a worldly orator, to a so-called cultured public greedy for pseudo-wisdom.

*) This is the title of a collection of sermons by Dr. Harleß, which is published by Teubner in Leipzig. Continuations are still constantly coming out, since every sermon that Harleß preaches is at once printed and then read throughout the whole land.

As on this day and on the following morning I could not speak with the Court Chaplain-in-Chief, since he was in this time already occupied by unpostponable business, I now looked up former members of my congregation in St. Louis who live here, and their relatives. At the house of Merchant Fischer (who belongs among those who have returned from America, and who heard with the deepest emotion and with praise to God what the LORD has done for us here in America, who had formerly gone such dangerous paths of error) I also became acquainted with a dear young man, Pastor Zehme (the son of the well-known believing Pastor Zehme in Großstädteln near Leipzig), who through the mediation of Dr. Harleß has been appointed preacher for the Lutheran courtiers in Pillnitz, where, as is well known, a royal pleasure-palace is situated. In winter Pastor Zehme stays in Dresden and holds the weekday sermons here in several churches. I rejoiced heartily to become acquainted in this young man with a Lutheran as decided as he is zealous, and to hear from him that his testimony among the courtiers has already been visibly attended with rich blessing.

On the day following I dined at noon with the Court Chaplain-in-Chief. He fully approved our procedure in Munich and in general the position which we have hitherto taken toward the theologians in Germany, and offered to