# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 04 25_S142
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fit. Send your children early to school, do not let the children first become wild street boys who then in school are hard or never to be tamed. Send them regularly and without interruption to school, else gaps arise which are not easily filled. Let the school be so important to you that you put every other work for which you might use your children after the school. Support the school by diligent questioning and repetition at home; the result will be striking. Finally, do not take your children out of school too early. Grant your children this benefit as long as ever possible. The other request concerns you, dear children. This school has been built out of love for you and for your good, at no small sacrifice. Be right thankful for this gift. Use the precious school-time, it never returns. Be like the diligent bees, which gather in summer that they may not starve in winter. Be obedient to your teachers, peaceable with one another, modest and humble toward everyone, and grow up as trees of righteousness, to the praise of the Lord. The Lord bless your going out and your coming in in this house. Amen,

(Contributed.)

World Affairs.

The Lutheraner has for a good while reported nothing of the affairs of the world, because it did not wish to weary the patience of its readers with the constant repetition of the news that the Russians and Turks now and then fought on the Danube without particular result, while on the other hand the Russian Emperor Nicholas was negotiating with France and England through the mediation of Austria and Prussia. One could plainly perceive the Russian's endeavor, by ambiguous answers to draw the matter out and thereby to gain time, in order to complete his armaments by land and sea and especially to bring his army on the Danube, which had suffered dreadfully, indeed had diminished by 30000 men, again to full strength, before England and France could come to the help of the Turkish Sultan with land troops. During the negotiations Nicholas declared all the western border provinces of his realm in a state of siege, spread among his subjects the report that he was beginning a struggle for the Greek Catholic Church, whose highest earthly head in Russia he himself is, thereby aroused the enthusiasm of the whole nation, and obtained, in particular, truly immense voluntary contributions of money from clergy and nobility: the few reports which reach us from the interior of Russia itself testify that the impending war has become to the Russian people a matter of the heart, and this alone already gives the Emperor a power truly not to be despised. On the other hand, England and France also have not been idle; their fleet in the Black Sea is about to undertake an enterprise against the Crimea and especially the Russian seaport of Sebastopol situated there; a French land army of 65000 men, an English one of 30000 men, are on their way to Turkey and are expected there about the 1st of May, to fight with the Turks against the Russians on the Danube; a splendid English war fleet under Admiral Napier has already gone into the Baltic, destined for Petersburg and the Russian war harbors, and lay, according to the latest reports, not far from the Kiel Firth; in England great, in France at least some enthusiasm for the war has also shown itself. Preparations for a fearful struggle were made, so that one could well see that on both sides a peaceful settlement of the dispute was held to be impossible. Nevertheless the negotiations were continued until a short time ago, Prussia especially still tried in the latest time to speak for peace, but in vain: the Russian Emperor insisted on the demands which he had long made, namely, to be recognized by the Sultan as the protector, indeed properly as the archbishop of the Greek Christendom in Turkish lands. At last France and England sent the summons to Nicholas to evacuate the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, otherwise war must be begun. The Emperor answered that he would not answer this summons, and on the 27th of March the Queen of England declared to Parliament, on the 28th of March Emperor Napoleon to the French Legislature, that their countries had fallen into war with the Emperor of Russia. The declaration of the Queen of England puts the blame of this result upon the Emperor of Russia, who in an inexcusable and moreover most crafty and lying manner had encroached upon the rights of Turkey, and she appeals thereby to Austria and Prussia, who indeed and with right have recognized the demands of the Russian Emperor as most unreasonable; she confidently expects the support of the English people and hopes that with God's help she will succeed in winning soon a firm and lasting peace. To Admiral Napier in the Baltic the order has at once been sent to attack the Russians. That Nicholas was industrious during the long and wide negotiations already shows itself on the Danube, since on the 23rd of March 50000 Russians forced the crossing of the Danube at several points and thereby penetrated into Turkey proper, evidently with the intention of fighting their way to Constantinople through the passes of the Balkan Mountains before the English and French auxiliary troops can arrive.

Whether our dear old fatherland will be drawn into this war cannot of course be foretold now. Austria seems to be inclining more and more to the side of England and France; Prussia, which by reason of its extraordinary credit possesses a considerable power, insists on remaining wholly neutral. God preserve Germany from the terrors of war.

The prospect of a general war, which certainly cannot be denied, has set in motion not only the kings and princes of Europe, but also the restless heads and world-reformers, who hope to fish in troubled waters amid the general confusion they at least expect. The Duke of Parma (in Italy) has been murdered treacherously. In Italy especially the so-called patriots stir themselves, the more the attention of the princes of Europe is turned to Turkey. In general this rising war exerts an immeasurable influence not only on men's minds, which are full of fear of the things that are coming, but also on all other human relations in Europe, indeed even in the U. States. Must we not seek a chief cause of the dearness which prevails in this country in this, that by the war the export of grain from Russia is hindered, so that the flour of the U. States is bought in England and other European countries at enormous prices?

Especially noteworthy in all these affairs is the influence of the U. States upon the European powers; England as well as France seek the friendship of the U. States and have, particularly on that account and upon the urgent representations of the envoys of the U. States, declared that they would confiscate neither Russian merchandise in neutral (that is, chiefly U. States) ships nor neutral goods in Russian ships, excepting munitions and other war materials. To be sure England declares only for the present that she is willing to desist from that way which she calls her right, but that she once desists from it gives the assurance that, in spite of her well-known impudence in these matters, other peaceable nations will at least this time not so easily be drawn into the war.

Dear brethren, remember our fatherland in your prayers before God, and in general:

"Watch and pray, the times are hard!"

The Matter Is Decided!

To those who have hitherto awaited with suspense the outcome of our controversy with the Buffalo Synod, we can announce for their reassurance that the matter is now at last decided. The renowned Herr Doctor Benjamin Kurtz has namely taken up the need of the Church at last and given his decision. He has namely declared that, if one wished to decide the matter by the Symbols, one must award to the Buffalo Synod the right "to condemn us." Hereupon indeed that theologian will occur to many a reader who was so versed in the Symbols that he held the Articulus Smalcaldicus to be a famous author, and many a one will perhaps maliciously apply this to the Herr Doctor. But let all these consider: Roma locuta est, lis transacta est, that is, Rome has spoken, the matter is decided! See: Observer No. 1072. of the 31st of March 1854.