# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 06 21_S152
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he says, that I will accept. Thus thou couldst escape the devil and be safe from him, if thou didst keep Christ before thine eyes; but if one loses sight of him, then all is over. Otherwise one should shut eyes, ears and heart, and only believe what he says.

St. Anthony once saw that the world was altogether full of snares laid, one after another; whereupon he sighed deeply and said: Who can escape all the snares? Then answer was made to him: He that is humble. That is darkly spoken; if it were spoken of God, it is too weak; for the world is full of snares, not only full of fleshly sins, but full of misbelief, despair and other vices. But he cannot get rid of the devil, nor escape from him, who does not know Christ. Therefore say: I know nothing but Christ, him alone will I hear, what he speaks; then all snares must break. But if I will have humility, I fall upon my own works, become a monk, who humble themselves before men. For example, a barefoot friar bows and bends before men, and before God also, and yet makes a knave of himself; but if I say to him: Thou art a knave, he grows angry, mad and foolish.

Therefore humility is a dark word; if he means it so, he would have men only despair. But it is not enough that one do as Judas did. But if thou let thy humility go, and hold and trust in the one Man, Christ, that does it. Therefore it is to be done; as he says: If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. Begin not at the back, nor at the top, so that thou wouldst first come to know the Father, nothing will come of it; but do thus: shut thine eyes, and say, I know nothing of God, nor of the Father, unless I come hither and hear what Christ says. For whatever else outside of this Man's Word, however high it may be and whatever it may be, that is preached and devised, that is not the Father, but remains blindness, error and the devil himself. But if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also; but if ye know me not, then ye know nothing of the Father either, for the Father has said, he will be known through the Son. And he takes us out of all high schools, out of the law of all wise men, out of the lives of all holy men, out of all religions, faiths and doctrines, out of the monks' cowls and tonsures, and says: Whoever would know who I, God the Father, am, let him hear Christ, the Son.

That is our Christian doctrine. We will not know or learn it from the Pope, or lay our necks to it, when he would lead us to heaven, for he knows not the Father; we will have none of his faith; the Turkish, Jewish and papistic faith are almost one thing. But say: First teach me to know Christ, and lead me to the Man; if the Man has said it, if it is his Word, if it comes out of his mouth, then I will accept it, and will kiss thy feet, and do thee yet more honor. But if thou wilt take him out of my sight, then I will not hear thee, yea, I will have thee trodden under foot besides. Thy life and doctrine shall be grounded and founded upon Christ's Word and doctrine, so that it proceed out of the Man's mouth and Word. I am to be baptized and believe in Christ: then shall I be saved through his death and the shedding of his blood. Thus I believe and live; all this proceeds out of the Man's mouth, and not out of the mouth of the Pope, of the Turks or of the Jews.

Thereafter we practice love one toward another and discharge our calling and offices; this all proceeds out of the Man's mouth. Then I know whom I hear and whom I follow. Then God says: If thou hearest the Man, Christ, thou hearest me, and when thou hast heard me: whatever thou doest thereafter in thy station and calling, that is good and right; for my Son has so ordained and commanded. That is what he means when he says: "If ye had known me." As if he would say: Ye know not what he otherwise wills, or how he is minded, but through me ye shall learn it, who am sent to you, who am to preach to you; if ye receive me and hear me, and hang upon my mouth, ye shall learn it all. But if ye throw it to the wind, and say, as the Jews say: Where is thy Father? then be assured that ye know not the Father; for ye hear the Pope, the Turks and the monks. For this is the word: If ye will not hear me, ye know neither me nor the Father, and know nothing of God nor of Christ; for he is come for this, that he should tell it to us.

Therefore all depends upon this, that one know Christ, and that a Christian know nothing of God without Christ and what else is needful to him for salvation, and for the rest shut his eyes against all preachers and thoughts, and say: I hear no preacher, and accept no thought; if they occur to me, I let them fall out again; Christ I hear, what he says to me. Against all the others together I stop my ears and say: It is all mere idle talk; babble hither and thither, I do not hear it; but bring me this Man's thoughts and word, then I will hear thee; the rest may all be gone.

Received

for the Ev. Luth. congregation in Neumelle, Mo., toward the rebuilding of its church burned down by the hand of Freyler:
From the congregation in and around Mischawaka, St. Joseph Co., Ia. 4.50
„ Mr. Bergfeld in Bremen 1.00
„ Mr. Ph. Merz in St. Louis Co., 0.5
„ Members of the congregation of Pastor Riedel, namely Messrs. H. Aldemeier 0.55., H. H. Aldemeier and Hunger, $0 25 each 1.05
„ Members of the congregation in St. Louis, namely:
„ Mr. Ph. Schubarth 0.50
„ Mr. Steinmeier 3.80
„ Messrs. H. Brockschmidt, A. Dellit, Chr. Lange in North St. Louis, A. Hermann and an Unnamed, $3.00 each 15.00
„ Mr. Ch. L. 2.85
„ Messrs. C. Römer, Fr. Schuricht, A. Uhlich, $2.50 each 7.50
„ Mr. H. St. 2.15
„ Messrs. Liebernickel, Fr. Körner, F. Scheel, Gottlieb Schuricht, $2.00 each 8.00
„ Messrs. B. Tschirpe, E. Schröder, $1.50 each 3.00
„ „ „ Wiebusch, Fr. Bünger, Fd. Schiemann, J. H. Luren, F. Bode, H. Bünger, H. Käsemann, Tubesing, M. Esiel, Trampe, H. Kuhlenbeck, H. Heimsoth, Professor Walther, Rector Gönner, D. A., Eckert, Harnisch, M. Große, F. Hölzel, G. Richter, Mad. Döderlein, Mad. N., $1.00 each 23.00
„ Messrs. Spielmann the elder, Störtemann, S. Lindner, J. Günther, G. Vetter, Reiz, Father Schuricht, Schau, Holzkamp, Mad. Delporte, Madame Jelper, Widow Kuhlenbeck, $0.50 each 6.00
„ Messrs. Behme, Stiegler the elder, Miss Wagentreiber, $0 25 each 0.75
(Continuation follows.)
J. F. Bünger, Pastor.

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