# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 11 23_S49
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Der Lutheraner.
(Rev. John, ch. 14, v. 6, 7.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall now and never pass away."
Published by the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Vol. 10.  St. Louis, Mo., November 23, 1853.  No. 7.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for out-of-town subscribers, who are to pay for it in advance and bear the postage. — In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 cents. Only those 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.

"Si fecisti, nega!" "If thou hast done anything evil, deny it!" Such is the emergency and relief maxim of the Jesuits. And this appears to be practiced also by the publishers of the "Herold des Glaubens" in our St. Louis. In No. 5 of our paper we had named this "Herold" also among the papers which stand in the service of the Jesuits and seek to wash them white. Now what does the courageous "Herold" do?—First, it denies that the document which we communicated is genuine, because the sly and cowardly Jesuit had not dared to provide the dirty letter with the signature of his name. Secondly, the 'Herold' denies that the Jesuits hold the immoral principles charged against them; rather, it calls the Jesuit order: "a society that has deserved so well of the world in every respect, and that stands alone" (to be sure!); thirdly and lastly, and this is the most remarkable thing, the 'Herold' denies nevertheless that it serves the Jesuits! Yes, it writes: "He (the Lutheraner) makes us the stupid-ridiculous imputation that our paper stands in the service of the Jesuits!"(!!)

Now when the "Herold" says, among other things: "In conclusion we should like to know of some writing or work of a Jesuit in which the principle is expressed that the good end sanctifies an otherwise evil means"—we must confess that the "Herold" is too kind to us. It evidently wishes to spare us the trouble of first copying out passages from the works of renowned Jesuits. For what more striking example for our assertion that the Jesuits and their sympathizers hold that shameful principle could there be than the dear "Herold" itself?—First it defends the Jesuits with great warmth, as a society that has deserved well of the world in every respect and stands alone (to be compared with nothing), and so extols them as true Socii Iesu, as fellow-Saviors of the world, up to the very heavens,—and in the same article it denies, yes, with deep indignation rejects as a stupid-ridiculous imputation, by which one comes too near its integrity, that it stands in the service of the Jesuits! First it poses as if every Christian must congratulate himself on standing in the service of so deserving, pious, holy a Society of Jesus, and afterwards, when one actually imputes this to it, it behaves as if one wished thereby to make it a receiver of stolen goods for a band of rogues and thereby cut off all its honor. What can be more manifest after this than that the 'Herold' itself does homage to the principle, and is not ashamed of it: "The good end sanctifies an otherwise evil means"? Or is it not an evil means to deny boldly the manifest truth? and is not the defense of the Roman church a good end to the 'Herold'?

Although, therefore, in answering what the 'Herold' has laid before us, we could be brief and refer it to its own columns, where it would find the principles named by us most beautifully set forth, we nevertheless prefer to pour out somewhat fuller measure for Mr. 'Herold', and, we fear, to communicate to it more testimonies against its "Jesuits so deserving of the whole world and standing alone" than it would like. It almost seems that the 'Herold' has already scented something of the kind and has taken heart only in the confidence of relief from New York to throw down to us the challenge from its fortress. For the "Herold" writes: "Our colleague in New York, Mr. Maximilian Oertel, will not fail to give the Lutheraner the proper reply, for which he is quite the made man." The 'Herold' hopes, therefore, that Mr. Oertel, who has so often in his church-newspaper circus brought the laughers over to the side of the Jesuits, will this time also, by some harlequinades, quickly put an end again to the fatal mood into which the presentation