# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 12 05_S62
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not be ungrateful, if one serves their children. And the people whose homeward cry for help, directed to the Mother Church and fatherland, has touched your heart, are descendants of both, flesh of our flesh and spirit of our spirit. The time may come when their grandchildren strengthen ours in the faith, as and when we now do it for them. . . Effective recommendations, which will pave the way for your readiness there sooner and more easily than here, shall and will not be lacking to you. My connection with the brethren across the sea, resumed after the renunciation of Stephan by the brethren there, especially with my old friend W. and with the brothers B., who are related to me, puts me in a position to be of assistance to you on that path. Your request for it I would flatly refuse, if your cheerful readiness, your heart's urge, came from the flesh. But since it is, as I know you, of a spiritual kind, and since you seek not bread, but the work in the vineyard of the LORD, convinced that with the work your bread also will be given you (Isa. 33, 16. Matt. 10, 10.), I will do what I can. But above all let us ask the LORD to say Yes and Amen to it, He in whose name all the promises of God are Yea and Amen, and that He go with you, give you His blessing, grace and good escort! Might very many of your contemporaries and fellow-spirits take up the same mind, feel the same compassion, go and do likewise! For there has been enough emigrating for earthly purposes, and it is time that for God's sake and the salvation of souls those should follow after who are bent upon it and whose hands the LORD has filled, to save much people alive, before it perish altogether. (Gen. 50, 20. Mark 8, 3.)"

"Everything else orally, when you come. Until then, God be with you."—

May God raise up many such public intercessors for our Church here, so poor in capable forces, then hopefully more and more will soon come to our help here, who over there must stand idle in the marketplace.

[For the "Lutheraner."]
A Plainer Declaration
by Pastor Röbbelen Concerning His Position toward the Seminary in Iowa.

It has been made a reproach to me by a member of our Synod that I occasionally also named "the teachers' seminary in Iowa" among the institutions which need the support (on the part of Lutheran Christians), because, after all, it stands in no connection with our Synod. I therefore declare that I was induced to do so only by the declaration given quite recently by the emissaries of Pastor Löhe in Iowa, who have established that very teachers' seminary, which, as I hear, is no longer even a mere teachers' seminary, that their hitherto separate position took place only in the field of church government. I did not wish thereby in the least to approve in and for itself that our brethren in Iowa show so little earnestness in seeking the connection, certainly well-pleasing to God and demanded by church order, with an orthodox Synod of this country, and I have already testified to them that they, who by God were directed locally first of all to us, sinned in standing so far aloof from us. But because I know how hard it is to arrive at a perfectly clear conviction of the correctness of all the single ordinances of our Synod, and that our brethren in Iowa are especially hindered by the judgment of their former teachers about us from finding as quickly as might be wished the peace of conscience which is requisite for joining our Synod, I hold it not only permissible but a duty of love to show also to these still erring members of Christ the forbearance we owe to those who act according to their conscience, though not yet sufficiently enlightened. Now since a gift of love, which one extends to those who according to their confession stand with us upon One foundation and are only not yet able to be convinced that the expression which they give to the formulation of a single article, subordinate in the connection in which they place it (though from want of insight into the inner coherence of all doctrines) with the whole Lutheran doctrinal structure, contradicts the Word of God, neither involves a concession to possible error nor has the same as a consequence, especially when the truth is continually testified loudly enough, but may very well be regarded as an act of magnanimity, which with the full truth also has obtained the hope that it will in the end prove victorious over those who are not yet manifest enemies of the Church, who have become known; therefore I have asked for a contribution for the seminary in Iowa, and have the less reason to withdraw this request, as our brethren in Iowa are in want.

Frankenmuth, the 13th of October 1854.

K. Röbbelen.

(Belated.)
Church Notice.

On the 12th Sunday after Trinity, Mr. J. H. A. Pincepank, formerly cantor and schoolteacher in Frankenmuth, was regularly called as pastor vicarius and schoolteacher of the Evang. Luth. Trinity Congregation in Buffalo, after a well-passed examination by me, the undersigned, and was ordained in the midst of the said congregation with the assistance of Rev. Pastor C. Diehlmann.

May the merciful God equip our dear brother to feed the sheep and lambs entrusted to him with wisdom and fidelity, and adorn him with abundant blessing.

Buffalo, the 14th of Nov. 1854.

C. M. Bürger.

[For the "Lutheraner."]

The frequent inquiry whether the "Cantica Sacra" will soon make its appearance has induced me to publish this notice in our church papers, for the information of all who wish my undertaking well and who await the appearance of the book with longing.

The printer gave me the hope, as was also without doubt his own opinion, that he would have the book finished by this time, but sickness and other unfavorable circumstances have made it impossible for him to keep his word. Now it is no longer possible that it can be finished for use this winter, perhaps not before spring. This grieves me, the more since I know that many would have been very glad to have it, in order to introduce it this winter for practice. Yet it is, as I hope, no loss, except the little time that we must wait longer: for this delay gives me just so much more opportunity to work at the improvement of the book, so that it will contain not only more than was originally intended but will also gain in correctness of contents.

As soon as it is ready for dispatch, I will give the subscribers timely notice.

Canton, Ohio, Nov. 20, 1854.

J. J. Fast.

Preparation for the Christmas Festival.

Caesarius, Bishop of Arles, born 470, died 542, says in an Advent sermon: "Consider, my brethren, when a mighty or distinguished man wishes to celebrate his own or his son's birthday, how zealously for several days beforehand he has his house cleansed of all dirt; the house is whitewashed, the floor swept, and it is adorned with manifold flowers. Everything that can serve for the joy of the soul and the delight of the body is carefully procured. If now you make such great preparations for your own or your son's birthday, what preparations must you not first make for the birthday of your Lord? Strive therefore with all your might that God find not in your soul what you would not find in your house. When Christ sees you thus preparing for the celebration of His birthday, He will Himself come to you, and not only visit your soul, but also rest in it and dwell in it forever. How blessed is the soul which seeks to order its life with God's help so that it becomes fit to receive Christ as guest and inhabitant, as, on the contrary, how wretched is the soul which has so defiled itself with sins that in it not Christ rests, but the devil begins to rule!"