# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 06 07_S137
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pass away now and nevermore." (Rev. of John, ch. 14, vv. 6, 7.)
Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 9.  St. Louis, Mo., June 7, 1853.  No. 21.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the annual subscription price of One Dollar for out-of-town subscribers, who must 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 addressed to the editor; all others, containing 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.

A Short Instruction
for Those Who Wish to Go to the Holy Lord's Supper.

Reprinted from the Hymnal of the Ev. Luth. Congregations in the Duchy of Cleves, of the year 1751.

Whoever wishes to go to the holy Lord's Supper should take good heed that he go worthily. — Now those go worthily who prepare themselves not merely outwardly but chiefly inwardly, by unfeigned self-examination, whether they stand in true, upright and earnest repentance.

Repentance, however, has and comprehends in itself

1. True contrition and sorrow over the sins committed.

2. A true faith in the LORD Christ, the only and true Atoner for sin.

To true contrition and sorrow over the sins committed there belongs

1. The knowledge of sins, or, that one should recognize and consider in his heart how often and how manifoldly he has sinned against GOD and His holy Word. To this end serve the holy ten Commandments, which are the tender mirror that shows us the sinful nature hidden in our flesh. In them stands the whole sum and requirement of the debt which we are bound to render, briefly summed up. Before this mirror one should step, take one commandment after the other before him, and examine and prove his doing and living, and for that purpose call upon GOD for the spirit of examination.

2. When one now recognizes his sin from the holy ten Commandments, he shall further consider how terrible the wrath of GOD is over sin, and how fearfully He threatens to punish all who transgress His commandments. Which is to be seen:

a. from the conclusion of the holy ten Commandments, which reads thus: I the LORD thy GOD am a strong, jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

b. From the terrible words, Num. 27, 26: Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.

c. From the terrible examples of the first world, Gen. 7, of Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. 19, of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, Num. 16, of the disobedient children of Israel, Num. 13.

3. One should not only recognize the wrath of GOD against sin, but also be heartily alarmed at it, and let himself be painfully grieved that he has awakened GOD's wrath over himself, and burdened and wounded his conscience.

In such painful and heartfelt anguish of conscience and of heart shall

4. a penitent sinner break forth, and confess, lament and bewail his manifold sins woefully and humbly, and curse such a mass of sins itself, and have a horror and abhorrence of it.

5. He shall think of means and ways whereby he may be rid and free of his great and manifold sins, and again obtain a gracious GOD and a quiet conscience. To this end now serves

The second part of true repentance,

Namely, faith in the only Atoner for sin, JESUS Christ. Which requires of a penitent person:

1. That he know what his LORD JESUS has done and obtained for his good, which our Catechism shows and points out very finely in the second Article of our Christian Faith, where we confess and say: I believe that JESUS Christ, true GOD, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, is my LORD, who hath redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, purchased and won me from all sins, from death, and from the power of the devil, not with gold or silver, but with His holy, precious blood, and with His innocent suffering and death.

2. That he believe this steadfastly, and comfort himself heartily with it against his sin, and