# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 03 15_S96
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far from the battlefield, the enemy's bullets all went too high, not a man was yet wounded. Then a soldier raises his right hand into the air, I do not know why, and in the same moment it is torn away by a cannon ball. When he came to himself, he cried: "With this hand I struck my father this morning — he came from the neighborhood. I quarreled with him about five thalers which he still was to give me." There lay the hand with its five fingers. — — Dr. Luther says: "What father and mother cannot train, the hangman and the devil, God's executioner, will train."

(Stader Sonntagsblatt)

The First Christians and the Non-Christians.

The Church Father Tertullian writes that the heathen, when they beheld the life of the Christians among themselves, exclaimed: "Behold, how they love one another!" Tertullian adds: "For they (the heathen) hate one another." He says further that the heathen, full of wonder, also said this of the Christians: "And one is even ready to die for the other!" To which Tertullian makes the remark: "For they themselves (the heathen) are more ready to kill one another."

Can those who wish to be Christians now be distinguished in this way from the non-Christians? — What does your conscience say to you first of all, O reader? Read John 13, 35. —

The True Church Is Timid, the False Bold.

Now behold, my dear friend, what a strange thing this is! We, who most certainly teach God's Word, are so weak and, for great humility, so timid that we do not like to boast that we are God's churches, witnesses, servants, preachers, and that God speaks through us, etc., though we certainly are, since we certainly have and teach His Word. Such timidity comes from this, that we earnestly believe God's Word to be so glorious and majestic a thing that we recognize ourselves as far too unworthy that through us so great a thing should be spoken and done, we who still live in flesh and blood. But our adversaries, devils, papists, factions and all the world, they are joyful and undaunted, and dare to say boldly, for great holiness: Here is God, we are God's church, servants, prophets and apostles! — just as all false prophets have done at all times. But humility and fear in God's Word has at all times been the true sign of the true holy churches; presumption and wantonness in human devotion the true sign of the devils. (Luther against the Duplik of Duke Heinrich of Braunschweig, of the year 1541. Opp. Tom. XVII, 1686. 87.)

Luther on Mission among the Turks.

On Maundy Thursday 1521 Pope Leo X. issued a bull of excommunication, in which he put under the ban, among others, those who supplied the Turks with iron and wood. Luther, who published this bull with glosses, a foreword and an afterword, wrote thereupon as follows:

"The pope curses those who supply the Turks and Saracens with iron and wood, that one should think it is his earnest purpose to do good to Christendom. But if he were Christ's vicar, he would step upon his feet, go thither, and preach the Gospel to the Turk, staking body and life upon it. That would be a Christian way to combat the Turks and to increase and protect Christendom." (XV, 2153.)

Received

a. for the Synodal Treasury
from Pastor S. for the colporteur $2.00
" " J. Gl. Walter in A. likewise $0.30

b. for the Synodal Mission Treasury:
from Mr. C. K. $1.00
" the congregation of Pastor Stecher in Huntington, Ia. 4.00
" the congregation Frankenlust, Mich. $10.00

c. for the maintenance of Concordia College:
from Mr. Gruder in Saginaw, Mich. $1.00
" " B. in St. Louis $13.70

For setting up a cabinet of natural history and for the acquisition of a physical and chemical apparatus, through Mr. E. Beck in Baltimore:
from Mr. A. Pape $2.00
" " Innvalde 1.00
" " A. Bach, Lettmale, Miss Drage, P. Bauer, and T. Prinz, 25 cts. each $1.25
" " F. and E. Beck 1.25
" " Horn 1.00
" " H. Muble 0.50

d. for poor students and pupils in Concordia College:
from the Young Men's Society at St. Louis in the months August 1852 to the end of January 1853 $148.85
" the Young Men's Society at Altenburg for G. sen. $6.00
" Mr. Joh. Gl. Walter there 0.30

e. for the support of the local college building:
from the congregation at Collinsville, 2nd payment $17.00
" " " " Frankenhilf, Mich. $1.89
" N. N. $25.00
" " " through Pastor Diehlmann $1.00

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

for the 7th year Pastor Stübgen.
" 8th " Messrs. Gruder, Gerken ($0.50), Sperber, Pastor Stübgen.
" 9th year Messrs. Pastor Albach, H. Brandt, Döring, Heinr. Gerken, Pastor Joseph Hartmann, Jacob Hofstetter ($0.50), Jacob Helferich, Conrad Kalbfleisch, Pastor König (3 copies), Geo. Lögler, Heinrich Nehrt ($0.50), Georg Reinhardt (including 1st half, year 10.), Heinr. Sievers, Pastor Sievers, Sperber.

Luther's Humility.

When Melanchthon once had made the arrangement that the students at Wittenberg should stand up as soon as Luther entered the lecture hall, in order thereby to show Luther their reverence, Luther himself was very ill pleased with it. He declared: "I wish that Master Philippus with his regulation might have a good year; I must every time, on account of the standing up, pray several Our Fathers more; and if I dared, I would sometimes go away unread."

Books and Pamphlets

to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner at the prices appended.

Dritter Jahrgang des Lutheraners of 1846—47. No. 8—26. . . . 50.
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh volumes of the Lutheraner, each . . . 50.
Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus, (in pamphlet form) 1 copy . . . 5.
Dr. Martin Luthers Tractat von der wahren Kirche, 2 copies . . . 5.
Die Verfassung der deutschen evang. luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. St. . . . 5.
Zweiter, Dritter, Vierter und Fünfter Synodalbericht of the same Synod, each 10.
Kirchen-Gesangbuch für evang. luth. Gemeinden, published by the local Evangel. Luth. congregations U. A. Conf., in pressed leather binding, per copy . . . 75.
The dozen $8.
100 copies $62,50.
The same in smaller format, per copy 50.
The dozen $5,25.
100 copies $40,00.
Dr. Martin Luthers kl. Catechismus, unaltered reprint . . . 10.
By the dozen $1.
A B C-Buch, und in gehöriger Stufenfolge geordnete Uebungsstücke u. s. w., published by our Synod 10.
By the dozen $1,00.
Johann Hübners Biblische Historien. New York edition, single copies . . . 25.
By the dozen $2,60.
Dr. Martin Luthers Auslegung des 90. Psalms, stitched and trimmed . . . 15.
By the dozen $1,50.
Spruchbuch zum kl. Catechismus Lutheri . . . 15.
By the dozen $1,50.
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn Past. Grabau zu Buffalo v. J. 1840, together with the writings exchanged between him and several pastors in Missouri . . . 15.
Brief Dr. Martin Luthers von Einsetzung der Kirchendiener an den Rath zu Prag in Böhmen vom Jahre 1523, translated from the Latin by Paulus Speratus . . . 10.
Timotheus. A gift for the confirmed youth. Adapted from Hiller, bound . . . 35.
By the dozen $3,60.
Sermon on Easter Day 1851, in St. Louis, Mo., delivered by Prof. C. F. W. Walther . . . 5.
His sermon on 1 Thess. 4, 1—7: The Exhortation of the holy Apostle to become ever more perfect . . . 5.
(Both sermons printed separately from the "Lutheraner".)
New Testaments, mostly with the Psalter, Stuttgart, London and Hamburg editions, in ordinary binding with the Psalms . . . 20.
ditto without Psalter 15.
with gilt edges 30.
28 Confirmation certificates with Bible verses and hymn verses, also with biblical pictures and marginal drawings; lithographed and published by Leopold Gast . . . $1,00.
16 Baptismal certificates with Bible verses and similar pictures and marginal drawings; lithographed and published by Gast and Brother . . . $1,00.
Melodien deutscher Kirchengesänge according to Dr. Friedrich Layritz . . . 25.
Appendix thereto 15.
The same with the appendix . . . 35.
Leipziger Evangel. Luther. Missionsblatt of the year 1850. . . . 40.

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