# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1852 11 09_S41
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pure shall to eternity endure." (Rev. John, ch. 14, v. 6. 7.)
Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Year 9.  St. Louis, Mo., November 9, 1852.  No. 6.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks, at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for subscribers outside the city, 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.

(For the Lutheraner.)

Conversation between two neighbors, of whom the one was a free man, the other a bondman. (Rom. 6, 20 and 22.)

1st Neighbor. — Neighbor, come in a moment! I would like to read you something.

2nd Neighbor. — For a moment; what is it?

1st Nbr. — An article in the . . . . . entitled: "A Piece of Creation."

2nd Nbr. — Keep that for yourself; I can already guess what it comes to.

1st Nbr. — But this is quite something special; I assure you, it is nothing of the sort that you are accustomed to call blasphemous talk; it merely reports a discovery from which one can see that you believers simply know nothing of nature, and do not use your heads, else you too would surely lay the Bible aside. I beg you, let me read it to you.

2nd Nbr. — Well, if you wish it, yes; but I must make the condition that you consider the matter calmly with me, and when I speak, let me speak out, just as I too will let you speak out when you have the floor. (Thinks to himself: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away, saith the Lord.)

1st Nbr. — (reads the whole article, from which, however, for the sake of brevity, a good deal of the less essential has been omitted here.)

"A Piece of Creation."

From the N. Yorker Tribüne we take the following interesting notice:

Mr. Crosse's Insects. — Certain experiments of Mr. Crosse, a naturalist in Somersetshire, have of late given the learned circles much to think about. It was, however, an error to suppose that Mr. Crosse laid claim to the power of creating insects; he said merely that he had developed insects under most remarkable circumstances.

Our Consul in Liverpool, Mr. F. F. Ogden, recently paid a visit to the naturalist Crosse, and reports in a letter to the National Intelligencer on what he saw:

"— There remains no room for doubt. Neither self-deception nor chance hypotheses could have had any influence on the result of the experiment. At the first perception of the result Mr. Crosse would not believe his own senses; he locked up the laboratory in order to make sure of himself, and took a long promenade in the open air. On his return he was able to observe the truly living insect in the various stages of its development. The apparatus was originally prepared for the crystallization of silicate of soda from its solution. A tubulated retort, whose long end is dipped in quicksilver, contains, led through this, a platinum wire, which is in connection with the negative pole of a weak galvanic battery. Through an air-tight sealed neck in the retort another platinum wire, in connection with the positive pole, is led into the fluid. The body of the retort is filled to two thirds with a carefully prepared solution of silica and caustic soda. Pure black flint and caustic soda, after having been exposed to white heat, are pulverized and melted into a glass, which is soluble in distilled water. In this solution animal life is surely as little to be suspected as in the quicksilver. The apparatus was now placed upon a table, in order to subject it to constant observation. A gelatinous substance, which formed about the base of the positive wire, was noticed first. Then No. 1. made its appearance; by degrees it expanded into No. 2. and 3., where pliable filaments could be noticed. No. 4. began to show animal life, and after a watch of 140 days through all the stages of its formation the perfectly living insect climbed up the wire! not singly, but in sufficient number to banish every doubt, if indeed there were still any