# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 10 24_S40
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sailors and with a land army of 74,000 men under St. Arnaud and Raglan embarked at Varna. A part of the fleet lay before the harbor of Sebastopol, and 56,000 men landed, contrary to the expectation of the Prince Mentschikoff, commanding at Sebastopol, near the city of Eupatoria in the Crimea, overpowered the weak garrison there and pressed on without delay toward Sebastopol. So far the latest news.

But what do you say to this, that Austria and Germany with it, this time stand by neither the savage Russian nor the more than heathen Turk, and also will not put themselves at the service of the selfish Englishman and foolish Frenchman? English and even local papers call this a cowardly policy; naturally, the English bull and the Welsh cock have not been able to draw the honest German Michel over to themselves with flatteries, so they seek to catch him by his honor. They do not hold him cowardly in truth, for they have let it be said to them that he put an end to the war on the Danube and took away from the combatants the one apple of discord, the principalities on the Danube, and they still most earnestly court his friendship. It seems to me that we Germans may be right merry over this, that our dear fatherland has at last once more taken an independent position and maintained it most firmly and honorably against Russia as against England and France.

An Anecdote of the Present Day.

In the "Kirchliche Mittheilungen aus u. über Nord-Amerika," edited by Pastor Löhe, in No. 7 of this year, there is found among other things a letter from C., D-Co., W., dated the 20th of April 1854. In it it says: "Lately I was truly frightened. I received, namely, by the mail a large thick letter. When I opened it, it was a call from the Lutheran congregation at W. near L., N. Y., confirmed and sealed by our reverend Ministerium. This congregation has fixed for me, besides the casual fees and other gifts of love, a fixed salary of 300 dollars in monthly installments. You will say: That the people do such a thing, the pure doctrine of the ministry brings about. I am of this opinion also."—

What wonders the so-called pure doctrine of the ministry does in this century!— Well, well, you preachers, who have so low a salary, do you not at last perceive what the fault is with you? — You will say indeed: In the sixteenth century it was otherwise! — And — I will only confess it to you — "I am of this opinion also." For thus Luther writes among other things of his time: "Formerly, when men preached nothing but lies and error, the devotion of the people was so great and the giving so abundant, that the goods of the Church were so improved that the Pope became Emperor, the Cardinals and Bishops kings and princes of the world. But now that in this time the light of the holy Gospel has risen again, the pious and faithful preachers of the same are as rich as, say, Christ and His disciples were. For the world ever does after its nature: The pious preachers, who show you the way to heaven, it not only lets suffer hunger and want, but hates, envies, persecutes and murders them for their faithful service and greatest benefit; again those who deceive, seduce and bring to eternal damnation, to them it gives and does whatever they only desire and wish." (Large Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians. On Galatians 6, 9.)

Deification of the Pope. — In the first session of the Council of Trent a certain Cornelius Mussus, a Minorite, delivered a speech in which he not only calls Pope Paul III. "quasi Deum" (as it were God), but also writes of those who would not submit to the Council that it would one day be said of them: "The light of the Pope came into the world and men loved darkness rather than light."! (John 3, 19.)

Notices

on the German Evangelical Lutheran Central Bible Society for Missouri, Illinois and Iowa in St. Louis, Missouri.

This society, which came into being in the month of March of last year, numbers at present 204 members here in the city and the branch society at Collinsville, Ills., which in the last quarterly meeting applied for admission.

Since its existence the society has distributed 258 complete Bibles and 20 New Testaments, in which it is to be remarked that the inquiries and orders so frequent of late could not be satisfied for this reason, because two cases of Bibles, sent hither from Leipzig as early as the 22d of April, have unfortunately still not arrived here.

The fund of the society, formed of voluntary contributions, amounts at present to:

—$468,00—

which amount, according to the account rendered, was shown partly in cash, partly in outstanding claims, partly in books on hand [mostly New Testaments].

St. Louis, on the 1st Sunday after Michaelmas 1854.

By order of the Society
Otto Ernst,
Agent and Treasurer.

Notice.

Since I have been called by the Ev. Luth. congregation in Detroit, Mich., it will henceforth be impossible for me to attend, as hitherto, to the dispatch of the work: "Die Märtyrer der ev. luth. Kirche." After an agreement made to that end, Mr. Otto Ernst, schoolteacher in St. Louis, has declared himself ready to take it over. I therefore beg all esteemed subscribers henceforth to address to him the business letters, orders and remittances relating thereto.

C. J. Hermann Fick.

With reference to the foregoing notice I respectfully request that all business letters and remittances relating to the aforesaid work be henceforth addressed to:

Otto Ernst,
care of Revd. Prof. C. F. W. Walther
St. Louis Mo.

Received

a. For the Synodical Treasury:
from Rev. Past. Daib $1 50
from his congregation in Hamilton Co. Ia. 7 00
from Rev. Past. Auch 1 00
from " Gottfr. Beck, through the same 1 00
Collection at the wedding of Mr. Carl Adolf Hermann in St. Louis 3 05

b. For the Synodical Mission Treasury:
from Mr. Friedrich Flottmann in Franklin Co. Mo. 3 00
from the congregation in St. Louis 10 00
from Mr. Hermann Bünger there, for the purchase of land 2 50

c. For the maintenance of Concordia College:
from the congregation of Rev. Past. Stubnatzy in Thornton, Cook Co. Ill., for the maintenance of the Rev. Professors 8 00
namely:
$6,75 proceeds of a collection gathered on the 10th Sunday after Trinity.
1,25 from the mission box.
from Mr. Gottfr. Beck, through Rev. Past. Auch 2 00
from Mr. Mich. Auch, through the same 1 00

d. For poor students and pupils in Concordia College and Seminary:
sent in through Rev. Past. Wunder: 18 00
namely:
$4,00 from the Young Women's Society
5,00 from the Young Men's Society
9,00 from some members of the 1st German Ev. Luth. St. Paul's Congregation in Chicago for the college pupils Wilh. Siegmann and Heinr. Grupe.
sent in through Rev. Past. Auch 5 00
collected at the wedding of Mr. Franken, through Rev. Past. Brohm 1 30

e. For the building of Concordia College:
Sent in through Rev. Past. Volkert from the congregation at Schaumburg, Cook Co. Ills., given on the Harvest Thanksgiving festival toward the continued building of Concordia College and in order, according to Psalm 66, to do something also for what the faithful God according to the same Psalm has wondrously done for it 62 00

F. W. Barthel, Treasurer.

Paid

the 9th volume, the Messrs.:
Johann Keller, Johann Bayhinger, Fr. Waltjen.

the 10th volume, the Messrs.:
Johannes Bienz, Past. Bilz, H. Beckel, Flottmann, J. G. Frank, Fr. Holleben, L. Hofmann, Joh. Keller, K. Kothe, L. Lapp, Ad. Pabst, Scheer, Schneider, J. Stahl, Joh. Bayhinger, Heinr. Winter, Joh. Weidner, Fr. Waltjen.

the 11th volume, the Messrs.:
Past. Auch (7 copies), Martin Leonhardt, W. Brockschmidt (2nd half), Wilh. Borchelt, H. Bäpler, Wilh. Diekmann, Past. Daib (1st half), C. A. Frenzel, M. Fritz, Heinrich Gerding, Past. M. Hahn, Wilh. Hillskötter, Dr. Haynel, H. Harken, Thomas Hormeß, K. Jansen, Fr. Krickeberg, J. G. Krauß, Fr. Kowallick, C. Fr. Kleppisch, Wm. Letmate, J. H. Müller, B. Nölting, W. Radecke, M. Schlerf, G. Schulze, C. Strobel, Past. Sommer (4 copies, 1st half), Marie Steindel, Heinr. Winter, John Wolfram (1st half).

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