# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 01 31_S89
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Der Lutheraner.
Rev. John, chap. 14, vv. 6, 7.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pass away now and nevermore."
Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 10.  St. Louis, Mo., January 31, 1854.  No. 12.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for out-of-town subscribers, who must pay 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 under the address Mr. F. W. Barthel, care of C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo.

Declaration.

In this number also we again communicate addresses from brethren in Germany to our Synod, which have been sent to it in consequence of the reports which Pastor Grabau has given in Germany about our Synod. We do this almost entirely without corrective remarks, because we, as a private person, do not venture to anticipate our Synod. We note this so that no one may suppose that the well-known proverb, Qui tacet, consentire videtur, that is, He who is silent (under accusations) seems to admit them, finds its application here. Our Synod has already been requested privately by several brethren in Germany who took part in those addresses to report now also from its side to Germany on the actual state of affairs, since it was held there that the requested opinions had been given partly only conditionally, partly only in abstracto, that is, since they had partly been willing to let the reproaches made against the Synod of Missouri stand only on the supposition that what was reported about it had been given faithfully and completely, and had partly decided without regard to whether the decision had any application to conditions here. Our Synod will not fail to do everything by which the brethren in the old fatherland may be put in a position to gain a complete insight into the controversies pending here between it and the Synod of Buffalo, their source and course, and then to decide unconditionally on the basis of the facts as ascertained. We cannot, indeed, refrain from expressing our regret that the dear brethren in the old fatherland, in spite of their own admission that they have been informed almost solely by the one party and therefore cannot give a definitive judgment, have nevertheless repeatedly expressed themselves publicly in a manner which demands as complete an insight into the conditions and occurrences here as it is unfavorable to us. While, however, we suppress all further remarks on this, and while we gladly construe everything for the best, we express the firm confidence that at least all those who stand in One Spirit, Faith and Confession (and indeed in the dear Confession of our Church) will also, in their judgment on the present controversies of right and wrong, in due time be of one mind.

Letter

of a reverend Conference held at Fürth in Bavaria to the Synod of Missouri, etc.

Reverend,

Dear Mr. President, beloved in the LORD!

On the 20th of September of this year about 50 Lutheran pastors were assembled here at a free pastoral conference, which may have a special interest for you and for the whole reverend Synod over which you preside, because, by a special dispensation, the condition of the German Lutheran Church in North America formed a chief subject of discussion; and the brethren who had entrusted to me on that day the direction of the conference now wish that I should report to you and your Synod on its course.

You know that Pastors Grabau and von Rohr, as delegates of the Lutheran Synod of Buffalo, have come over to Europe in order to lay before the Lutheran churches on this side the ecclesiastical differences which, they say, exist between them and the Synod of Missouri, etc. At first we had not expected that they would come into our region also, since they knew our former brotherly connection with you, and for the sake of that connection had treated our dear brother Löhe in their latest writings not exactly gently; nevertheless they announced their arrival and an intended visit to Brother Löhe, in order if possible to come to an understanding with him, and when they were informed from here of the approaching Lutheran pastoral conference, they arranged their journey so that they came to Fürth on the 20th of September. The mood which prevailed in the Confe