# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 04 25_S144
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some months ago on the part of our Synod was received by them, and you would not grow weary of further opening your hand to help us fulfil our promise.

We issued in No. 9 of the tenth year of this paper the first appeal in regard to this, to call for your help. Our appeal has found a hearing with many; we have cause to lift up thankful hands to the LORD that abundant assistance has been given; yet very much is still lacking before our plan, which we hope is salutary, could be carried through. In order to acquire 40 acres of land for each family, we should need about 3 sections of land, which, bought at the government price, would cost about 2400 dollars. Of this sum we have now hardly the fourth part.

A piece of land which a Christian Indian can call his own is to him a great treasure, and the more he has accustomed himself to work upon it, the dearer it becomes to him, the more easily he parts from his wild life of hunting and fishing, to eat his bread in honor like other Christians. So help, then, ye dear Christians, help the Indian brethren that they may attain to that. Help that the great wrong which has been done them by being driven out of their glorious inheritance may in small measure be made good again by us, so far as God gives us the ability. Let it not be said of you that you could have helped the poor red brethren and would not. It is written, James 4, 17: To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. And again, Prov. 19, 17: He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD, and that which he hath given will he pay him again.*)—Could you but look upon the misery, if our red fellow-believers should leave the land altogether and seek out the hunting-grounds forced upon them beyond the Mississippi?! Oh, so long as we can prevent that, let us stand together, that our love toward the brethren may be made manifest. — Ye congregations that would serve the LORD with your houses, forget not to love Him in the red brethren! Ye young men's and young women's societies that have joined together to further the kingdom of God, hear our voice that calls for help! Yea, all, all let us joyfully thank the LORD that we may help Him, both by imparting spiritual and bodily gifts, that His kingdom come! Amen.

*) The Indian brethren do not wish, as we have already mentioned before, that the capital for the purchase of land be given them as a gift, but with God's help they wish to pay off something yearly on the purchase price, e.g. by sugar and furs. Such payment would then flow back into the mission treasury and be used for further mission purposes.

The Mission Commission of the Evang. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Frankenlust, the 11th of March 1854.
Ferdinand Sievers, Chairman.
O. Clöter, Treasurer.
G. Schaller, Secretary.

(Contributed.)

Church Dedication.

On the 26th of March of this year, being the Sunday Laetare, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the orthodox confession at Kirchhain, Wisconsin, had the joy of being able to dedicate its newly built church, after it had held its services hitherto in a private dwelling. Several members of the sister congregation at Freistatt had come to take part in this joy.

In the forenoon the pastor of the congregation, Herr O. Fürbringer, preached on the epistle of the church-dedication festival. For the celebration of the holy Supper the communicants had prepared themselves on the preceding day by private confession in the old church place. For the afternoon the undersigned had undertaken the sermon.

May God now cause the honor of his name to dwell also in this little church. May He keep the congregation, which He has endowed by grace with a pure confession, firm in it. May He also let it ever thankfully recognize the greatness of this grace, that pure preaching resounds in its midst.

Grafton, Dom. Judica, 1854.
Martin Günther.

Received

a. For the Synodical Treasury:
Vacat.
b. For the Synodical Mission Treasury:
from the congregation at St. Louis $19 30
" Hrn. C. A. Herrmann there, for the purchase of land for the Indians in Mich. 1 00
" the congregation at Collinsville, Ills. 5 10
" Hrn. Ameis, for the purchase of land for the Indians 1 00
Collection at a wedding, sent in through Hrn. Past. Fast in Canton, O. 5 00
to which have contributed:
Georg Ludwig Daum, John Daum, Georg Reichert and Leonhard Schneider, each $1 00.
Stockert and John Filbert, at 25 C.
John Stockert 15 C., Georg Reichert sen. 35 C.
from the Immanuel congregation of Hrn. Past. Geyer near Watertown Wis., for the Indian brethren 8 00
from the congregation of Hrn. Past. Rennicke in St. Clair Co. Ills., for the same purpose 2 00
c. For the support of Concordia College:
from the Luth. congregation in Collinsville Ills. 6 30
" the Immanuel congregation of Hrn. Past. Geyer near Watertown, Wis. 6 00
d. For poor students and pupils in Concordia College and Seminary:
Vacat.
e. For the Concordia College building:
Vacat.
F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

for the 8th and 9th volume the HH. Munzel (1 50), Nicol. Koch ($1 50.)
the 10th volume the HH. Past. Bansemer, Friedr. Burggrabe, Christoph Brennecke, Grünig, Dr. Hunger, F. Holze, D. Hübner, Korff, Nicol. Koch, Körner, K. Leich, Heinr. Niedert (50 C.), Nobbe, Ramin, Christl. Richter, Steuerwald (— 50 C.), J. Umbach.
the first half of the 11th volume, the HH. Nicol Koch, Heinr. Niedert.

Request.

Should anyone possess the Large Catechism and the Kinderlehre of Dr. M. Luther, put in question form for the young Christians by M. Johann Spangenberg, he is asked to lend this book for a short time to the Pastoral Conference of the District of New York and to send it to the undersigned. The members concerned of the conferences are also requested to bring to the next Synod at least one copy of each of the catechisms reviewed by them.

W. Nordmann
Washington, D. C.

Just published in Germany, and we expect copies by the end of this month:
E. W. G. Keyl's,
Pastor of the Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation in Baltimore,
Katechismus-Auslegung
from Dr. Luther's writings and the Symbolical Books,
1st Chief Part,
(450 pages) Price $1.
Philadelphia, Decbr. 1853.
Schäffer & Koradi,
Southwest corner of Fourth and Wood Street.

Books and Pamphlets

to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner at the prices appended.

Die Stimme unserer Kirche in der Frage von Kirche u. Amt, paper-bound 1 00
bound 1 30
Lithurgie Lutherischer Gemeindegottesdienste, edited by Friedrich Hommel, 85
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn Past. Grabau zu Buffalo v. J. 1840, together with the writings exchanged between him and several pastors in Missouri
Kirchen-Gesangbuch für evang. luth. Gemeinden, published by the local Evang. Luth. Congregations U. A. Conf., in pressed leather binding, each 75
The dozen $8.
100 copies $62,50
The same in smaller format, each 50
The dozen $5,25
100 copies $40,00
Dr. Martin Luthers kl. Catechismus, unaltered reprint 10
By the dozen $1.00
ABC-Buch, and exercises arranged in proper graduated order, etc., published by our Synod 10
By the dozen $1,00
Johann Hübners Biblische Historien. New Yorker edition, single copies 25

Printed by M. Niedner & Co.,
Northwest corner of Third and Pine Street.