# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1852 12 07_S1028
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tears; they sought out the pastor and said, sobbing and weeping, to him: "We come to seek comfort, our church lies in ashes.

What is now to be done? Hopefully a just government will discover the incendiaries, punish this crime against the church, which cries to heaven, as it deserves, and protect the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Neumelle, that it may practice its religion undisturbed. But then the Lutherans have the holy duty to take up most heartily the cause of their oppressed and persecuted brethren in the faith in Neumelle. God commands His church, 1 Cor. 12, 25, 26, "that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it." And Eph. 6, 18: "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints." Let us therefore earnestly call upon God that He may check the raging of Satan, that He may further preserve our brethren in Neumelle from all incendiaries, robbers, murderers and other villains, and grant them peace.

At the same time, however, the congregation there needs also the support of charitable gifts. Their means are now exhausted, the first church was locked against them, the second was burned for them. Therefore our brethren cannot think of undertaking again out of their own strength the building of a church. So all Evangelical Lutheran congregations are hereby asked to come to the help of our afflicted fellow believers in Neumelle with a collection. Let us consider that they have already attempted the utmost that was in their power, that they have already built the second church in a few years. Let us consider what heavy persecutions they have had to endure. No wonder that even the most courageous are now troubled and cast down. Already Satan triumphs with his crew, that now at last the Evangelical Lutheran church must go under there. Therefore let us help them, that out of the ashes of the old church a new one may soon arise, and let us remember the Word of God: As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Gal. 6, 10.

Pastor Bünger, St. Louis, is ready to receive gifts for the congregation mentioned.

The "Tageschronik von St. Louis" reports the following from Nassau:

Radevorwald, January 22. The preacher Karl Haver, who with the greater part of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation here had withdrawn from the established church and on that account had already endured many hostilities, was found yesterday evening dead in the forest, shot by bullets through the back into the breast, which forest he was about to cross on the way of his calling. The assassin has so far not yet been discovered. The excitement of the Old Lutherans over the murder of their beloved pastor is immense. Pastor Haver was a man of great gifts of mind and heart, an excellent speaker and a diligent pastor, and withal a man of high culture.