# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 08 30_S6
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New-Orleans.

Upon the dreadful reports of the ravages of yellow fever in this city, which the newspapers at present contain, many a reader will think with anxious concern of our dear brother Volck, who only a short time ago began his work in that city, and will wish to know how it goes with him and his dear congregation now. We therefore take the liberty of communicating the following from a private letter addressed to us by Rev. Mr. Volck of the 15th inst.:

"God has visited our congregation also with sickness. Seven adult members of it are lying ill with yellow fever. Yet, thank God and the faithful, self-sacrificing care of Dr. Wolff, they are all out of danger again . . . among the sick in the congregation all went well. There was everywhere a joyfulness in dying, a quiet surrender to God's will, so that they sometimes comforted and encouraged me more than I them. . . God has wonderfully preserved me thus far; for although I must run almost constantly in the sun and am continually among the sick, I feel until now not the least . . Pray now with us and for us."

Church News.

Yesterday's Sunday, the 11th after Trinity, was a great day of joy for us. In the little town of Port Richmond on the beautiful island of Staten Island near New York a small Lutheran congregation had gathered for some years. Too weak to support a pastor of its own at once, it had for a time let itself be served by a neighboring Moravian preacher, without, however, losing sight of the goal of obtaining a Lutheran pastor of its own. Since the beginning of this year God had, under quite remarkable circumstances, put it in possession of a beautiful church. Soon thereafter, through a wonderful concatenation of events, in which the good hand of God is quite evidently to be recognized, it had become aware of our Synod and had applied to it for a pastor, who was also sent to it in the person of the candidate for the ministry Mr. Friedrich Böling, a pupil of the seminary at Fort Wayne. After he had held several guest sermons, and had, as by his personality so by his thorough, sound and simple manner of preaching, soon gained the confidence of the congregation, he was unanimously elected and called pastor, and thereupon yesterday ordained by me, with the assistance of Rev. Mr. Hoyer of Philadelphia, in the sight of his new congregation, and pledged to all the Confessional Writings of the Lutheran Church. With this solemn act the dedication of the church was at the same time joined. Rev. Mr. Hoyer delivered the dedication and ordination sermon. Its content was, after the usual Sunday gospel, the right worship in the house of the LORD. He showed

1., how our worship must be constituted, that it may be the right one;

2., what a blessing and what a high benefit the right worship is; and

3., what in particular this congregation must do, that its worship in this house may be the right one.

The dear congregation, highly rejoiced over the benefit bestowed on it of a beautiful church and an upright pastor, had mustered everything possible to adorn its church in the loveliest way. Its sister congregation in New York had turned out in a body to take part in the beautiful divine service of the LORD, and the small singing choir of the same helped to heighten the celebration by a four-part hymn. May God, the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, grant the new pastor strong faith, fervent love, much wisdom and patience to carry out his indeed difficult office, but to the congregation enlightened eyes, to recognize the time of its visitation through the preaching of the Gospel and to apply it unto salvation. The dear readers of the "Lutheraner" will wish to rejoice with their brethren on the shore of the Atlantic and thank the LORD, who multiplies the hosts of His evangelists and lets His Church spread abroad and makes the place of her tent wide to the right and to the left.

Th. J. Brohm.

New York, August 8, 1853.

☞ The Post-Office of Rev. Mr. Böling is:

Port Richmond,
Staten Island, N. Y.

After the evangelical Lutheran congregation in Lafayette Co., Mo., had become vacant through the departure of Rev. Mr. Quast, it had called for the second time to its pastorate Rev. Mr. Franke, who had already years ago served this congregation once, but then had been called away by the congregation in Buffalo, and in consequence of a severe illness had had to live privately for a considerable time. Pastor and congregation both wished a formal and solemn introduction and had therefore turned to the Presidium of our Synod, from which F.'s nearest, that is, about 50 miles distant neighbor in office, Pastor Wege in Benton County, received the commission to introduce Rev. Mr. Franke. He discharged himself of this commission on the 9th Sunday after Trinity, the 24th of July of this year, with the assistance of his dear brother in office, Rev. Mr. Johannes in Colecamp. The ceremony was performed according to Löhe's Agenda, after Pastor Wege had held the early sermon and, on 1 Tim. 4, 16, had treated of the glorious promise "Thou shalt save thyself, and them that hear thee," setting forth 1.) the content, 2.) the condition, 3.) the importance of this promise. In the afternoon Rev. Mr. Johannes preached. He put the question "What is a servant of God in his office?" and discussed in skillful and impressive speech the answer given with the words of the text; namely, that the same is 1.) in relation to God—a sweet savor of Christ, both among them that are saved and among them that perish—2.) in relation to men—to these a savor of death unto death, but to those a savor of life unto life. Refreshed by the mutual, alas too brief being together, and with the full conviction that the congregation is only to be congratulated on its choice of a pastor, the brethren parted on the following day.

On the 10th Sunday after Trinity, the 31st of July of this year, we, Pastor Schliepsick and the undersigned, had the joy of publicly inducting the dear Pastor F. Besel at Staunton, Ills., into his office there. However precarious things looked for the ev. Luth. congregation in and about Staunton after the early death of the late Pastor Reißner, some members having accepted an ev. united preacher and others wishing to move away, so gratifying is the situation there now. Those who had gone away have returned, and several Methodists also have joined the ev. Lutheran congregation, so that some twenty-odd families have constituted themselves decidedly on the Lutheran confession and united into an orthodox congregation which will tolerate among them neither false doctrine nor ungodly life. There are also further prospects for a congregation in the neighborhood.

The God of all grace bless the testimony and the labor of His servant and strengthen, establish and perfect the whole congregation in Christ Jesus unto eternal life. Amen.

Johann Friedrich Bünger.

St. Louis, Aug. 23, 1853.

The St. Louis District Pastoral Conference will assemble shortly at Altenburg, Perry Co., Mo., on the 7th of October of this year and the following days.

Concerning a Communication.

We have received from Mrs. Henning a communication in which certain attacks upon the good name of the Krause family, made in the third synodical letter of Rev. Mr. Grabau, are repudiated as so many untruths. We must hereby declare that the "Lutheraner" cannot possibly concern itself with such purely private matters.

Just published in Germany, and expected by us in copies by the end of this month:
E. W. G. Keyl's,
Pastor of the Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation [illegible] Baltimore
Katechismus-Auslegung
from Dr. Luther's writings and the symbolical books
1. Hauptstück
(450 pages) Price $1.