# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 06 07_S144 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 144 Isa. 54, 1. Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; rejoice with praise and cry aloud, thou that art not with child! for the desolate hath more children than she which hath the husband, saith the Lord. This is an excellent and glorious promise, and the prophet wills that we should let it be well commended to us, since he adds: saith the Lord. It refers, however, not merely to the times of the Apostles, but it endures for all times. For the Word of God abideth for ever. Therefore our fewness and the multitude and might of the enemies ought not to trouble us in these days. Nor ought we to stumble at the wretched appearance of the Church, because amid such great disunity of manifold opinions, amid such great discord of princes and counts, no hope of concord seems to remain. For although a pious heart cannot look upon these things without great distress: yet one must not on that account cast away all hope. For the Church has here the promise that she shall be propagated far and wide. Luther. J. What can I do for the extension of the kingdom of God among the heathen? K. Well now, you know that capable missionaries and the blessing of office which they need among the heathen are pure gifts of the wonderful God. So pray, then, for the right wonder-men for the heathen to the Father of all good gifts, who has promised to our prayers a hearing in Christ Jesus. J. That I do already in general. The first three, yea all the petitions of the Lord's Prayer have for me a richer content since I pray them also for the poor heathen. But I have also resolved to become acquainted with the several mission institutions and the various heathen peoples. And then I will go wandering in prayer among them in spirit and remember their needs before God. I will sometimes keep blessed hours when I, like a father of a household before the bedsides of his sleeping children, stop in secret before each man and place and people for which I know something to ask or to give thanks. I will pray in JESUS' name, and my prayer shall, like a priestly blessing, descend abundantly and quietly, like the refreshing rain in the night, upon the favorites of my care. K. May God grant you His Holy Spirit for this! May He make you a stout man of prayer, who may openly behold what he prays in secret! Löhe. They say of the peacock that he has an angel's garment, a thievish gait, and a devilish voice. This bird is a true image of the heretics, for all factious spirits can pretend to be pious and holy and as angels, but they come creeping in and push themselves in, before they are called to the office of preaching, and wish to teach and preach. But they have a devilish voice, that is, lies, error, heresy and seduction they preach. Luth. Tischr. Leipz. A. S. 294. V. In the year 1539, on the 29th of January, Dr. M. bewailed and lamented the sects which were still to come from false brethren. There will be so much writing yet, he said, that the least grammarian philosopher will want to write some singular thing, and we shall fall back again into the former old errors. For the devil is a thousand-artist, and can trim and adorn an error in manifold ways. (Luther. No heretic lets himself be persuaded to depart from his conceived delusion and mind, and to give the truth of the divine Word the honor: No, they see and hear nothing, like Michael Stiefel, when in the year 33 he preached that in that same year the last day should come; he neither saw nor heard me. In all my life no adversary has given me such evil words as he. (Luther. Ah, it is soon done with a man, so that the devil quite takes possession of him, so that he has neither sense nor reason. We do not believe that we are such weak people, and the devil so mighty. (Luther. Whoever seeks his honor in the Holy Scripture is a fool, yea mad and foolish; for the same is given to the honor of God, not to the glory of men. (Luther. The doings and designs of heretics and factious spirits, Jews and enthusiasts are always haughtier, more heated, and have a greater show than those of true Christians, wherefore one thinks nothing else than that they are upright, and their business all holiness. But one can and must meet them with this one argument and ground, and ask them: Pray, is this also our Lord God's command? There they must be silenced. (Luther. You shall so deal with the Scripture that you think as if God Himself were speaking. But since God Himself speaks, it does not become you to turn His Word wantonly whither you will. (Luther. 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