# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 04 26_S120
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Paul, Become Lutheran.

It was in the time of the Reformation, when a bishop of Salzburg found the New Testament in an inn. As he opens it, the passage Rom. 3, 28. falls before his eyes: "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." When he reads this, he says: "Behold, Paul, hast thou also become Lutheran?" — and throws the book angrily upon the bench.

A Good Example.

The former Prussian minister and tutor of King Frederick the Second, Mr. v. Prinz, had a village in the neighborhood of Berlin, where Porst, known for the publication of the Prussian hymnbook, was then still a young man, preacher. In this village a catechism-instruction was to be introduced, and not only the children, but also the old were to be questioned. When Porst therefore made representation to his church patron, and maintained that parents and married people would be ashamed, from false ambition, to answer his questions, the excellent minister gave him the following answer: "In the afternoon hold your instruction of children. I will come to the church, and then you question me myself; I will answer, and whoever of the congregation is then ashamed to answer, him I will see — and question me only right much, — and thereupon others — and then again me." This actually happened, and no one held it a disgrace to be able to give account of his religion.
(Rom. 1, 16.)

From Luther's Time and Life.

The renowned Hebraist and theologian, Dr. Bernhard Ziegler, when he went out of the cloister, prayed God: that He would provide him an honest office and some 40 gulden besides, that he might serve God and men honestly, and support himself. That was done. When he had now married, it would not suffice; so he asks God for 60 gulden. God gave them to him also. When the children grew up, he asks for 80 gulden. God gave them to him likewise. When he now grows old, it will again not suffice. Then he comes to God and says: "Dear Father, I have heard of Abraham that he spoke with Thee several times, and Thou didst graciously hear him; that I too have experienced. Ah, be not angry with me, I will speak with Thee only one time more. Give me what I need, and I will have enough all my time, I will prescribe nothing more to Thee." Thereupon God provides him yearly 150 gulden; and when the honest Elector of Saxony learns that he had thus prayed, he gives him 200 gulden more besides, that he might have in his old age a little refreshing draught.
(Matth. 7, 7.)

A Christian Conqueror.

When Charles XII, King of Sweden, had won a great victory over the Russians, and asked his generals what he should do with the prisoners? — one answered: Bake pancakes! — whereby he gave to understand that the king should have them cut down. "Yes" — replies Charles — "bake pancakes!" — He had these also actually baked, fed and gave drink to the prisoners, and sent them back free to the enemy. "If the LORD" — he said — "has forgiven us ten thousand pounds, then we can well give our fellow men a hundred groschen" — for a short time before he had had the Gospel of the servant in debt, together with the exposition, read to him out of a Postille.
(1 Pet. 3, 5.)

Another Payment with Indulgence.

(See page 56 of this volume.)

When in the twenties of the 16th century a very aged old man by the name of Thomas Harding, an Englishman, who had committed no other crime than that he had read the Bible in the vernacular on secret walks in field and wood against the prohibition of the papistic priesthood, was, since he had already before been suspected of Lutheranism, condemned as a relapsed heretic to death by fire. By command of the bishop of Lincoln, the royal confessor, he was then burned, and to all those a forty days' indulgence was promised who should carry wood to the stake, which had the effect that one of the spectators threw upon the burning pile a cudgel, which beat in the martyr's brain. — The Roman priests, who have always shown themselves so bloodthirsty where they had the power in their hands, commonly say, when their abominations are here held up to them, that these abominations were not committed by them, not by their Church, but by the worldly magistracy. But they act herein like the Pharisees and scribes, who also thought themselves innocent of the blood of Christ, because they had not murdered Christ with their own hands, although they had first compelled Pilate to misuse his worldly magisterial power for the crucifixion of the LORD. Yes, as the foregoing history shows, the Roman clergy went still further, and even rewarded all who laid their murderous hand on the confessors of the Gospel of Christ with indulgence for sins!

The Costly Necklace and the True Wedding.

Among a company of simple confessors of the Gospel, who in the 16th century were dragged by the papists to the place of execution on account of their confession, there was also a noble lord of high birth, by name Ludwig von Marsack of Bourdon. The dear martyrs had to wear a rope about the neck on this their last way. Only the Lord of Marsack had been spared this ignominy on account of his high rank and his distinguished kindred. Far from regarding this as a sparing, the dear witness of blood now said with suppliant gesture to his judges: "O grant me also the same chain and the same collar of the heavenly order which my other brethren wear!" —

When, not long before, a certain Simon Marechal of Langres, together with his wife, was likewise led by the papists to the stake for the sake of the faith, and the flames were already beginning to blaze, the latter called to her husband cheerfully and serenely: "Dear husband, that we have hitherto lived with one another in the married state, I hold only as a betrothal; but now our true wedding will first begin, at which the Son of God will marry us in eternity after this despised torment." Only the fire-glows closing over them at last could silence their mouth, which was loudly giving up its spirit in psalms and prayers.

The receipts for the moneys that have come in for the various purposes cannot, on account of the illness of the treasurer, Mr. Barthel, follow until the next number.

Books and Pamphlets

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

Third volume of the Lutheraner of 1846—47. No. 8—26. . . . 50.
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
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Conversations between two Lutherans on Methodism, (in pamphlet form) 1 copy . . . 5.
Dr. Martin Luther's Tract on the True Church, 2 copies . . . 5.
The Constitution of the German Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States . . . 5.
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Synodal Report of the same Synod, each 10.
Church Hymnbook for Evang. Luth. congregations, published by the local Evangel. Luth. congregations of the U. A. Conf., in pressed leather binding, the copy . . . 75.
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The dozen $5.25.
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Dr. Martin Luther's Small Catechism, unaltered reprint . . . 10.
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Spruchbuch to the Small Catechism of Luther . . . 15.
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Letter of Dr. Martin Luther on the Appointment of Church Servants to the Council at Prague in Bohemia, of the year 1523, translated from the Latin by Paulus Speratus . . . 10.
Timotheus. A Gift for the Confirmed Youth. Adapted from Hiller, bound . . . 35.
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Sermon on Easter Day 1851, in St. Louis, Mo., delivered by Prof. C. F. W. Walther . . . 5.
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New Testaments, for the most part with the Psalter, Stuttgart, London and Hamburg edition, in ordinary binding with the Psalms . . . 20.
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Melodies of German Church Hymns after Dr. Friedrich Layritz . . . 25.
Appendix thereto 15.
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Leipzig Evangel. Luther. Missionsblatt of the year 1850. . . . 40.

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