# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 02 14_S97
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall pass away neither now nor ever."
Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 10.  St. Louis, Mo., February 14, 1854.  No. 13.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for subscribers living out of town, 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, containing business matters, orders, cancellations, money, etc., are to be sent here under the address Mr. F. W. Barthel, care of C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo.

(Submitted.)

Most Important
Tidings of Victory and Peace
together with a
Festival Program
for
my old friend and countryman
Martin.

Dear old Martin will surely think at once of the Russians and Turks on the Danube and in Asia, but there the old fellow has once again shot clean wide of the mark. Russians here, Turks there! The struggle is indeed not to be despised, and will cost blood enough, Martin, and I too would gladly take part in celebrating a feast of victory and peace, if each of the contending parties would go back to its own place, the Russian to Siberia, the Turk somewhere off to Asia where he could find room; but with the Russians and Turks it is nothing this time, nor with the Chinese either, on whom your acuteness would probably have fallen first, but again wrongly. I have nothing at all to do this time with the kingdoms of the world, though there would be much to say about them, but with the kingdom of Christ I have to do, and there you shall now, with your Catharine and your children, great and small, keep a feast of victory, peace, and thanksgiving in your house, and since you are once for all no inventive head, I have enclosed the festival program at once, according to which you can arrange it. You see, that is how one gets ahead in education and enlightenment, when one lives near a city where the Fourth of July is celebrated; there one knows at once how to give the thing a shape and expression; there I have an advantage over you, Martin!

"But what in all the world," you think, "can that be for a victory and peace that old Hans has won! Has there perhaps been a little quarrel again with the housewife, which the clever woman, in her accustomed manner, has brought to a good peace by making his coffee a little stronger and sweeter in the afternoon and serving it to him in grandmother's old inherited moustache cup." Well, I will tell you something, Martin, a dear, clever wife is not to be paid for with the whole Chinese Empire, and to reach the moustache cup out of the cupboard at the right time and set it before her husband, for that there is required more bravery of spirit, and it betrays more generalship, than the Turkish and Russian emperors taken together may possess.. And I will not let my domestic honor be taken from me, but that is not at all what we are speaking of now. I must just come out with it, you will not hit upon the right thing! So hear, then, and take it to ears and to heart:

The Evangelicals or Unionists, it is they today.—They have conquered—they have conquered their old Adam, they have come to their senses—they have been converted,—they are, one and all, Lutheran, Old-Lutheran-stock-and-stiff-Lutheran—just think of it!—

Well, what do you say to that! Eh! that is tidings of victory and peace! For that there is now peace in the realm, surely you understand. Now you can also take the "Friedensbote" again at once, for it too has now become Lutheran, and no longer twists and turns, like my old rooster when a piece of bread has stuck in his throat. For you see, Martin, it is always an embarrassing thing for a settled man who still has some shame and character in him, to go about the country with his messenger's pouch and have to tell the people things which one has oneself first swallowed down with mighty gagging, whereby not only the gullet but also the conscience is badly handled. But that is now over; the "Friedensbote" has now become an honest fellow, like one of us, and henceforth blows in one horn with the "Lutheraner," and you will now see wonders, what the two of them will blow together from now on. For now it is as good as won. If the Lord has done this, He can and will do more, and I would not now give my old felt hat for the triple crown of the Pope.