# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 03 14_S113
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Der Lutheraner.

"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pass away nevermore."

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

Volume 10.  St. Louis, Mo., March 14, 1854.  No. 15.

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 the same 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.

Perhaps some readers of the "Lutheraner" will be eager to learn what the local "Herold des Glaubens" has answered to what we served up to it about the Jesuits. The readers will remember that this "Herold des Glaubens" had itself boldly challenged us to it. It had written: "In conclusion we should like to know of some writing or work of a Jesuit in which the principle is stated that a good end sanctifies an otherwise evil means. You (the "Editor of the Lutheraner") "claim to know the Jesuits, their institute and works so exactly; it will therefore be an easy matter for you to cite this passage." Thereupon we laid before the gentleman not one, but a whole great black register of such passages, and demonstrated irrefutably that the Jesuits are held by the Lutheran theologians, with perfect right, to be those unclean spirits which, according to the Revelation of St. John (Chap. 16, vv. 13 and 14), were to come forth like frogs out of the mouth of the dragon, of the beast, and of the false prophet. What does the "Herold des Glaubens" do now? — It is mouse-still! It neither stirs nor mutters. — Mr. Maximilian Oertel, this otherwise so great, quarrelsome braggart, upon whom the good "Herold" relied, and whom it had already called to its aid in anticipation of the distress to come, seems again to have relied upon the "Herold," and therefore likewise observes a very eloquent silence. Probably both had cherished the quiet, comforting hope that the books of the Jesuit brood lay dusty in the libraries over the sea; that here one knew of them only by hearsay; that here one could therefore venture to speak with the mien of a good conscience: Produce the proof! Now since the poor wretches have seen with terror that this is not so, that on the contrary the godless Old Lutherans drag themselves about with such old Jesuit writings, which they themselves hold to be heretical and godless, and that they are indelicate enough to put on public display the not exactly fragrant secrets of the "Society of Jesus," both, Herold and Mr. Oertel, consider it most advisable to play the innocent sufferers and to be silent, and at least to wait until the fatal impression which such exhibitions make has somewhat worn off and the memory of it is no longer so lively. Should the gentlemen, however, when they think this time has at length come, still stir themselves, we have no little inclination to publish our essay on Jesuitism, if not improved, yet enlarged, in pamphlet form, and then, in case the gentlemen should perhaps have mislaid the relevant numbers of the "Lutheraner," to make them a present of it, one copy to each, since we fear they will think they need their little all for more necessary expenses, and the Jesuits will hardly advance them the money for it, after they have so shamefully left them in the lurch in so great a distress.

(Communicated.)

The So-called Large Hanoverian Catechism,
reviewed by
Wege.
(Continuation.)
Some Specimens from the Sacred History.

The Hanoverian Catechism teaches—as we have already shown—not an inspired Word of God, but only one written under extraordinary assistance of God.

How much, however, even this assistance—extraordinary, as he calls it—counted with the author of the Hanoverian Catechism is evident from several pieces out of the history of the first men. Let one but compare the narrative of the Holy Scripture with that of the author in the Short Religious History.