# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 10 25_S33
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Der Lutheraner.

"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall pass away nevermore." (Rev. John 14, v. 6.)

Published by the German Ev. Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.

Volume 10.  St. Louis, Mo., October 25, 1853.  No. 5.

Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the annual subscription price of One Dollar for subscribers living at a distance, who are to pay for it in advance and bear the postage. — In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 cents. Only the letters which contain communications for the paper are to be sent to the editor; all others, which contain 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.

Jesuitism.

Not only are the intrigues of the Jesuits themselves, especially in America, growing ever bolder, but all the newspapers of the Roman Church published here are also in their service. They are celebrated in them ever more shamelessly, and represented as people ever as innocent and pious as they are diffusing blessing everywhere. Everyone who has taken even a glance into the history of churches and states knows that with their shameful and immoral principles and their godless wiles and tricks they have hitherto caused everywhere nothing but misery and heartache, disorder in church and state, treachery, rebellion, secret murder, and public bloodshed, so that their wickedness has become proverbial throughout the world, and everyone understands by Jesuitism the most consummate wickedness, and by a Jesuit a base hypocrite who has become a master of his craft. Everyone knows that there was once a time when the Jesuits, having grown bold and ever bolder, at last made it so gross that almost the whole of Roman Christendom cried out against their cunning game, which penetrated into all relations and sowed corruption, until at last the Pope himself abolished the Order of the Jesuits as one growing ever more pernicious, however hard it came to him, the Antichrist, to give up his beloved, faithful accomplices, at least outwardly.

The more now, especially on the part of the "Catholic" newspaper writers here, for example the editors of the New-Yorker Kirchenzeitung, of the so-called Wahrheitsfreund of Cincinnati, of the Herold des Glaubens of St. Louis, etc., set about consigning to oblivion the abominations of the Jesuits in former times, and blotting out of the book of the past the blood-dripping history of their doings in all parts of the earth, lulling the world to sleep again and luring it anew into the freshly spread nets of the Jesuits as the long-awaited saviors in this time of distress: the more necessary it is to lift up again and again the whitewashed lids of the tomb of Jesuitism and to show the world how its grave is "full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness."

For this time only one example again.

Among the many bloody wars which were in good part either instigated, or at least prolonged, through the incitements of the Jesuits, one of the most dreadful examples is the Thirty Years' War, carried on from the year 1618 to 1648, which by degrees turned flourishing Protestant Germany almost into a wilderness.

How active the Jesuits were in this is testified, among a thousand other documents still extant, by a letter of a Jesuit, which he wrote on the 8th of April in the year 1628 from Prague to a gentleman of rank, and which the celebrated antiquarian V. E. Löscher communicated in his collection of documents of the year 1712 from the original manuscript that had come into his hands. The letter is rather long and full of bloody, diabolically cunning counsels as to how Protestant Germany is either to be led back to the Roman Church or to be destroyed. We will communicate only a few things. It says therein:

"In due continuation" (continuation) "of our trusted Christian correspondence I cannot withhold from you that I have, with God's help, upon the command and instruction of our blessed Order's Lord General at Rome, so far advanced the matter with the most Christian, most zealously Catholic, and most fortunate Roman Emperor and his most secret counselors, that Your Imperial Majesty, in my presence, that of the Lord Duke of Friedland, and of two spiritual gentlemen, has sworn anew a bodily oath to His Papal Holiness: not to let your head rest until you have brought all heretical kingdoms and lands back to the ancient and alone saving Roman Church and to the absolute obedience of His Papal Holiness. For which, on a day appointed, a solemn festival especially ordained by His Papal Holiness is to be held in