# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 07 05_S183
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made public. After this decision the Reverend Messrs. Grabau and von Rohr allowed themselves to be advised to be willing to enter upon a colloquium with the Synod of Missouri, even without the latter first recalling the so-called mob preachers. The correctness of this report of the brethren concerned, given by themselves in Germany, Mr. Pastor Grabau has not only denied in his Informatorium, but has also written to Germany and demanded a retraction there. In consequence of this, the editor has issued in the January number of the Prussian Kirchenblatt the following declaration under the heading "Correction":

"In the communication made in No. 19, p. 236 ff., concerning a pastoral conference held at Breslau, for discussion with Pastors Grabau and von Rohr about the controversy between the Lutheran Synods of Buffalo and Miss Streit, it is said that the circumstance had opened the prospect of a settlement of the controversy, in that the said pastors have allowed themselves to be advised to enter upon a conversation with the Synod of Missouri, even without the latter first recalling the preachers in question, etc. Against this communication Pastors Grabau and von Rohr have objected, 'that the advice was indeed given them: after acknowledgment of their wrong, on the part of the Synod of Missouri, to allow such greater leniency to take place, namely to demand only the absence of the opposition preachers at the colloquium, that they had nevertheless still had misgivings about it and, as regards this point, had let themselves be guided only by the advice of the Neu-Ruppin conference, namely: the temporary suspension of fellowship with the excommunicated and their preachers.'"— In communicating the foregoing correction I remark that one of our pastors, who attended that conference, remembers just as little as I that Pastors Grabau and von Rohr protested against the advice given them. It is possible that their silence was to be regarded as an assent on their part to our proposal. Since no minutes were kept of the proceedings of the conference, the matter must rest upon itself." (!)

D. H.

(Submitted.)

Dedication of a Church.

On the second Sunday after Easter the church of the German Evangelical Lutheran Zion's congregation of the unaltered Augsburg Confession here at Staunton, Macoupin Co., Ills., was dedicated to the service of the Triune God.

The exceedingly beautiful spring morning attracted a great number of guests, friends and also enemies from near and far; only the expected neighboring pastors stayed away, whereby our festal joy was marred, and for which reason our pastor, Mr. Besel, was compelled to undertake all the work of this day alone. The procession went at half past ten o'clock in the forenoon from a neighbor's house over to the church, whose door was surrounded by a garland of flowers. After the pastor, in the name of the Triune God, had opened the church door, he and the congregation entered the church singing the hymn, "Ich will mit Danken kommen, etc." Our women had adorned it with garlands of flowers, and altar and pulpit with velvet, etc. After the end of the third verse the pastor read the prayer of Solomon, and the congregation answered with the hymn, "Jehova, Jehova, deinem Namen sei Ehre, Macht und Ruhm, etc., Amen." The service was held for the first time almost entirely according to the Löhe agenda. The first dedication text was Exodus 20:24, after which the pastor, at the opening, extolled the glorious gift of God, and thereupon, after Exodus 12:14, "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial," showed in the discourse why we should, may and can rejoice today, namely, 1, on account of the place, the house of God, which God has vouchsafed us out of undeserved grace for His memorial and for the glorification of His name; 2, on account of the promise, whereby this house becomes a house of blessing, because Jehovah desires to come to us and bless us in Word and Sacraments (the little strength, Rev. 3:8, if we keep His Word and Sacrament pure).

In the afternoon, after the sermon, confession and the Holy Supper were celebrated, and after that a child was brought to holy Baptism. The Lord crowned our festal joy also by this, that on this feast day three families joined our congregation, among them an old man who, before the assembled congregation, renounced the Roman Catholic faith and solemnly pledged himself to our Lutheran confession, and now partook with us of the holy sacrament of the true body and blood of Jesus Christ. At the close the pastor gave thanks for the victory which God has given through Jesus Christ, and after a short but earnest exhortation to steadfastness in the pure confession of our Lutheran Church, he concluded with the petition of 1 Cor. 15:58, and the whole congregation joined in: "Nun danket alle Gott, etc." The LORD be praised, who has helped hitherto, He will also help further, and raise up kind givers who will help us to finish building our little church completely.

In the name of the congregation, the elders:
August Sievers
Adam Leffie.

Church News.

The dear reader has already learned in an earlier number of the "Lutheraner" that God has begun to build the walls of His Zion also in northern Wisconsin, and has deemed the undersigned worthy to be used as a weak instrument for this building. But in the year since the ministry was established here, He has blessed us beyond our asking and understanding, in that He has so strengthened the congregation here, which began the work of the Lord very small and weak, inwardly and outwardly, that already in the course of the past winter it was able to undertake to buy a former Presbyterian church offered to it, fifty feet long and twenty feet wide. On Sexagesima Sunday this building was dedicated for our use, with an exceedingly numerous attendance, also from neighboring sister congregations. It was a day of joy and of thanksgiving to God.

But God has blessed still further. Hitherto several other country congregations had been served by me alongside the congregation here, so that at each of these places preaching could be held only every second Sunday. This spring, however, by God's grace, one of these congregations, in Town Herman, 10 miles northwest of here, has become able and willing to form a parish of its own. And upon the proposal of the presidium of our Synod it called the candidate of the holy ministry, Mr. Johann Nicolaus Beyer, who has studied theology at the seminary at Fort Wayne, as its preacher and pastor. The same was then, on Ascension Day, by commission of the Rev. President, ordained and installed into his office in the midst of his congregation by Mr. Pastor Lochner, with the assistance of the undersigned.

May the gracious God, who has so richly blessed us hitherto, also in future rule over us, both over the congregation in Town Herman and Sheboygan and their preachers, with His grace.

Sheboygan, Wisc., June 7, 1854.
D. Eisfeldt.

The address of the dear brother is:
Rev. Joh. Nic. Beyer,
Howards Grove
Sheboygan Co. Wisc.

Receipt and Thanks.

I herewith heartily thank and acknowledge having received for my support in the seminary here:

From several friends through Mr. Past. Fröhlinger in Fort-Wayne $15 28
Through Mr. Past. Kolb in Adams Co., Ind., from his congregation a collection taken up at the Easter festival 7 00
From Mrs. Gallmeyer, Adams Co., Ind. 0 50
" Mr. Mayland 1 00
" " J. Gänssbauer, Saginaw, Mich. 1 00
" " Grübel, Marion Twp., Allen Co., Ind. 2 46
" Mrs. Thime, Noble Co., Ind. 0 50
" the esteemed Ladies' Society in Fort-Wayne, two shirts.

May the faithful God repay it richly to the kind givers according to His promise.

M. Engelbert.

For the young man Heinrich Koch of this place, who desires to devote himself to the holy ministry and for that purpose is to be prepared at Concordia College in St. Louis, I received from the Young Men's Society here, at his departure, $16.50 and handed it over to him. God bless this rich gift and let this young man be trained to be a capable laborer in the vineyard of the LORD.

Ernst M. Bürger.
Town Hamburg near Buffalo, June 12, 1854.