# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 11 09_S48
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more haughty, hotter and has greater show than that of true Christians, and therefore men think otherwise than that they are upright and their business is 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? Then they must be struck dumb.

Luther.

Ah, it is soon done with a man, that the devil so wholly takes him in that he has neither sense nor reason. We do not believe that we are such weak people and the devil so mighty.

Luther.

He who seeks his honor in Holy Scripture is a fool, yea mad and foolish.

Luther.

If the devil were so clever, and kept silent, and let the Gospel be preached unhindered and unpersecuted, he would have less damage in his kingdom, for when the Gospel is not assailed or persecuted, it rusts away altogether.

Luther.

You shall so deal with the Scripture that you think as if God Himself were speaking. Since, however, God Himself speaks, it is not fitting for you to wrest His Word wantonly whither you will.

Luther.

When Satan racks and torments the conscience through the Law, as it stands in the Revelation of St. John, that he accuses the saints day and night before God's face, then it is time and high need that one hold up to him this verse in this manner and say: What have my sins to do with you, devil? Have I not sinned against you, but against my God. I am not your sinner, what right have you over me? . . . God my Lord, however, is no devil, no tyrant nor hangman, as you are, who do nothing but frighten us men, and threaten us with death and hellish fire.

Luther.

(Submitted.)

Blessed Death of a Child.

Henriette, the eleven-year-old little daughter of Herr Pastor Best in Palmyra, Mo., died on the 29th of September of this year after a sickbed of five days. The Lord, who was to call her away, revealed His purpose to her already on the second day of her illness. She declared, namely, to her dear mother most positively that she would die; and the following day she said to her father: "Papa, I am dying; pray that I may come to our Savior." When they tried to talk her out of it, saying that she would not die yet, she replied: "I wanted to go into heaven, the devil stood there, he would not let me in, then another man came and helped me." Later she would take no more medicine, for, she said, I am going now to my Savior." Two days before her end, when she may well have thought that the hour of departure was now at hand, she called father, mother, grandfather, brothers and sisters and all acquaintances to the bed and said: "Farewell! Pray that we may find one another again in heaven!" and prayed thereupon several times: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Thou hast redeemed me, thou faithful God!" But she had still many pains to endure before she should enter into everlasting joy. She said not much in these pains, she only sighed. At last her little hour came, and with eyes directed toward heaven she gave up her spirit.

This is taken from a letter of the father of the blessed child.

The Lord be praised that He has prepared an heir of heaven also in this dear child, and may He raise up the sorrowing parents by the certainty of their child's blessedness, and awaken our dear youth to strive in good time after eternal blessedness in Christ Jesus!

Received

a. for the Synodal Treasury:

From Mr. Grumbhard near Buffalo, N. Y. $ 1.00
" J. William in Bergholz " 1.00
" A. Koch near Buffalo " 1.00
" Pastor A. Claus " 1.00
" Professor Walther, for 1852 and 1853 " 2.00
" C. Ph. H. " 1.00
" Pastor Fr. Ottmann " 1.00

b. for the Synodal Mission Treasury:

From the congregation of Herr Past. Lochner in Milwaukee, Wisc. $ 3.19
" F. L. " 1.15
From the Young Men's Society in the congregation of Herr Past. Bürger near Buffalo " 2.50
Collected in two mission hours of the same congregation " 2.20
From Mr. J. William in Bergholz, for the purchase of land for the Indians " 5.00
" A. Koch near Buffalo, for the same purpose " 1.00
" Schoolteacher Lermhuis in Pittsburg " 1.00
" Friedrich Scheel, here " 2.00
From the Women's Society of the Evang. Luth. Trinity Congregation in Zanesville, O. " 10.00
Collection at the wedding of Mr. Past. Holls " 8.05
From Mr. C. Ph. H. " 1.00

c. for the Support of Concordia College:

For the support of the college teacher, from F. L. " 1.00
From the congregation of Mr. Past. Werfelmann in Auglaize Co., O. " 4.00
From an unnamed person in Altenburg " 2.50
From the congregation of Mr. Pastor Baumgart in Elkhorn Prairie, Ills. " 9.20
From the St. John's Congregation at Minden, Washington Co., Ills., Harvest Festival collection " 6.61

d. For Poor Students and Pupils in Concordia College and Seminary:

From an unnamed person in Mr. Past. Johannes's congregation $ 1.00
From a member of the congregation of Mr. Past. Claus in Neumelle " 3.00
From another member of the same congregation " 1.05
From Mr. Friedr. Lange near Troy, Ills.:
15 bushels of potatoes, 20 heads of cabbage, 9 bushels of apples, 3 bushels of peaches, 1 hen.
" Georg Schneider near Troy:
6 bushels of potatoes, 4 ditto corn, 2 chickens.
" Meyer from Mr. Past. Holls's congregation in Centreville:
5 bushels of peaches, 1 ditto potatoes.
" Merz from Mr. Past. Müller's congregation:
2 bushels of beans.
" Helkemann from Mr. Past. Baumgart's congregation:
1 barrel of flour.
From an unnamed person: 3 bushels of peaches.

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

For the 9th volume, the Messrs. Carl Bracher, Past. Claus, Erk, August Erzfeld, Joh. Foßler, Past. Goldamm[illegible] (—50 C.), J. Jeude, Georg Koch, Heinr. Knacke, L. Stiegemeyer, Past. Schmieding, Fr. Windhorst, Wulsenfötter.

For the first half of the 10th volume, the Messrs. Gottlieb Funke, Past. Goldammer, Heinr. Kuhlenbeck.

For the 10th volume, the Messrs. Daniel Bohnhardt, Gerh. Bucholz, Christian Bünte, Friedr. Brück, Conrad Bär, John Dimmig, Past. Jul. Erhart C. H. Hofmeier, Heinr. Hesse, Heinr. Meyer, Past. Fr. Ottmann, Widow Schüßler, Gottfr. Schmidt, J. P. Schultze, M. Thoma.

Receipt and Thanks.

In the name of the Evang. Luth. St. Jacobi Congregation at Logansport it is hereby acknowledged with hearty thanks that we have received from the Evang. Luth. Congregation at Baltimore 26 dollars toward our church building.

The Lord our God bless the dear congregation for such a gift with temporal and heavenly goods through Jesus Christ.

Logansport, the 20th of Octbr. 1853.

Cl. Stürcken, Pastor.

Misprint in the Previous Number.

Page 40, column 2, it must read in the last line gathered on the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival.

Books and Pamphlets

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Third volume of the Lutheraner of 1846—47. No. 8—26. (The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh volume of the Lutheraner, each 50 [illegible]
Conversations between Two Lutherans on Methodism, (in pamphlet form) 1 copy [illegible]
Dr. Martin Luther's Tract on the True Church, 2 copies [illegible]
The Constitution of the German Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States [illegible]
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Synodal Report of the same Synod, each [illegible]
Church Hymnal for Evang. Luth. congregations, published by the local Evangel. Luth. Congregations U. A. Conf., in pressed leather binding, per copy 75 [illegible]
Per dozen $8. 100 copies $62,50
The same in smaller format, per copy 5[illegible]
Per dozen $5,2[illegible] 100 copies $40,00
Dr. Martin Luther's Small Catechism, unaltered reprint [illegible]
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A B C Book, and Exercises Arranged in Proper Order of Progression etc., published by our Synod 10 [illegible]
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Johann Hübner's Biblische Historien. New York edition, singly 2[illegible]
Dr. Martin Luther's Exposition of the 90th Psalm, stitched and trimmed [illegible]
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Spruchbuch zum kl. Catechismus Lutheri [illegible]
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The Pastoral Letter of Herr Past. Grabau at Buffalo of the year 1840, together with the writings exchanged between him and several pastors in Missouri [illegible]

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