# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1855 06 19_S175
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4. Trauerbinden, i.e. 32 Funeral Sermons by Valerius Herberger. Edited by Ledderhose. Halle, J. Fricke. 1854.

This book also was truly worth being drawn forth again from its obscurity. Whoever seeks the light of God's Word when it threatens to grow dark in his heart at the death of his own; or whoever desires to have in this world a voice of awakening, which cries to him piercingly to the heart: "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass; but the word of the LORD endureth for ever," will find here what he seeks. Pastor Ledderhose deserves great thanks that he has reproduced what is contained therein unaltered. The book (comprising 340 octavo pages) may likewise be obtained through the aforementioned bookstore for the price of 80 cents.

5. Passionszeiger by Valerius Herberger. Edited by Ledderhose. Halle, Fricke.

These are godly thoughts and prayers on the contemplation of the suffering and dying of JESUS Christ according to the order of the twenty-four hours. Herberger relates of himself that as a little child he had the habit of always stretching out his forefinger, whereupon his father expressed the hope that his son would become a true John, who would always point with his finger to the little Lamb of God that beareth the sin of the world. And that has indeed come to pass. A testimony of this are all the writings of Herberger, especially the "Passionszeiger," in which the dear man points with such fervent zeal to the suffering and dying Saviour that the comforting image of Him impresses itself indelibly on the reader's heart. The price of the little book (comprising 220 small octavo pages) is 30 cents.

6. der aufrichtige Cabinetprediger by Gottlieb Cober, newly edited by M. G. Lange. Part 2. Halle, J. Fricke. 1854.

Of the author of this work Löscher writes: "The writings of the late Cober are more fortunate than he himself was. For they find approval everywhere, whereas he himself found a hearing in few places, and it cannot be denied that they are worth reading." Cober was born at Altenburg in 1682 and, after many tribulations which he had endured on account of his writings, died at Dresden in 1717. Cober writes in the concise, forcible, sententious manner of Heinrich Müller and Lassenius. His Cabinetprediger consists of two parts, each of which contains a hundred discourses, in which the errors current, the sinful habits and vices of the world in all ranks are hackled through with great Christian earnestness and wit.

Since the world remains ever the world, the book is still as excellent a lye as it was more than a hundred years ago. Would to God the newly published book might again be much bought and read and laid to heart by all readers; then its blessing also would become new again. The 2nd part now before us contains 308 pages in large octavo. Both parts cost $1,25.

7. Freudenspiegel des ewigen Lebens by Dr. Philipp Nicolai, sometime pastor at Hamburg, author of the hymns: Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme — Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. Presented anew by G. Mühlmann. Halle, Mühlmann 1854.

The more glorious this work is, so that it seems to the reader as if Nicolai himself had travelled through heaven and were now, after his return to earth, giving an account of his journey, while the reader at the same time sees clearly that the author has beheld heaven only in the mirror of the written Word of God — so much the more vexatious is it that Mr. Mühlmann, who has dedicated the work to his teacher, Professor Dr. Tholuck, could not refrain from giving, instead of an unaltered reprint, not indeed, as he says, a revision, yet an adaptation of this work of the old hero Nicolai. However much that is precious the work still contains, it has become unpalatable to a Lutheran through some suspicious remarks added. We therefore mention this new edition here rather to invite the readers to take care to get hold of the original edition of the work.

8. Große, allgemeine Volks-Bilderbibel, or the whole Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament according to the translation of Dr. Martin Luther. First Splendid Edition. With a hundred beautiful illustrations printed in the text. Philadelphia 1855. Published by J. Kohler, No. 104, North Fourth Street.

Of this Bible work we communicate the prospectus below, and remark only that the first three numbers of it now before us show that this costly undertaking is highly worthy of recommendation and deserves every support.

Prospectus.

The great general

Popular Illustrated Bible

Appears in 16 weekly installments of 100 pages; thus 1600 pages, large quarto format, with excellent woodcuts printed in the text, and an ornamented border running throughout round the text, and many large

beautiful historical illustrations

extending over the whole height of the page, after drawings of the most celebrated artists of Germany.

Type, printing and paper are chosen in keeping with the dignity of the Book of Books, and the typographical execution has been entrusted to the printing-office of Messrs. King and Baird in Philadelphia, which is most favorably known in this country.

Price for the installment of about 100 pages with woodcuts and pictures only 25 cents.

The whole splendid general large Popular Illustrated Bible will thus be in the hands of the purchasers and subscribers within four months, and will come to only

Four Dollars.

I beg leave to point out that this edition of the Bible gives not only the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha complete, but also the third and fourth Book of Esdras, the third Book of the Maccabees and the Destruction of Jerusalem by Josephus Flavius, which additions are not to be found in every edition of the Bible.

To those subscribers who wish to have this splendid work bound as well, I am in a position to offer, for bindings from my excellently equipped bindery, which meets all the demands of the age and of progress, the following lowest prices. Namely:

1. Solid, strong, durable full leather binding with marbled edges and clasps $1,50
2. Fine binding, imitation Morocco, tastefully finished, with gilt edges and clasps $2,50
3. Splendid binding, very fine, Turkey Morocco, gilt edges, finest, elegant, rich gilding and clasps . . . $4,00

I am also ready to meet, quickly and at the lowest price, any special taste or wish regarding the binding which one or another purchaser of this splendid Bible work may express.

To resellers, agents or subscription-collectors for this most profitable and thankworthy article, which will be received reliably and favorably in every Christian family of the Union and of Canada, as well as everywhere else, I am ready to grant the most advantageous and best terms for their trouble, and I therefore request them to apply directly to me.

Philadelphia, in May 1855.

Ig. Kohler,
104 North 4th St., Publisher, Bookseller and Bookbinder.

Church News.

After Candidate Heinrich Jox, until now a pupil of the Fort Wayne Seminary, had received a regular call from the St. John's congregation at Maple-Grove, Wisc., he was, by commission of the Right Rev. President of the Northern District of our Synod, Rev. Fürbringer, on the Thursday after the Sunday Exaudi (May 24), ordained by me, with the assistance of Rev. Pastor P. Beyer, in the midst of his congregation, and installed in his office.

The Lord set him for a blessing to many.

F. Steinbach.

Address: Rev. Heinrich Jox,
Maple-Grove,
Manitowoc Co., Wisc.

Ordination.

On the third holy Whitsuntide holiday the venerable senior of our Synod, Rev. Pastor Carl F. Gruber, had the joy of ordaining and installing his own and eldest son, the candidate of theology, Mr. Carl Theodor Gruber, as his assistant and successor in office, in the midst of his congregation at Paitzdorf, Perry Co., Mo. This took place with the co-operation of the undersigned and of his dear neighbors in office, Pastors Löber, Wolff and Riedel. The words of the sixty-year-old patriarch, who has behind him thirty years of service in office and who since his immigration to America, that is, for 15 years, has always been pastor of one and the same congregation, the heartfelt manner in which he praised God for all the grace and mercy shown him in his life, the heart-stirring admonitions to his son, in which he set before him the holy duties he was assuming, joined with truly fatherly consolations and encouragements, and finally the hearty address to the congregation, to conduct themselves toward his son, as the fellow-helper of their joy now given them of God, according to God's will, will surely remain unforgettable to many. And may the reader permit that this case be announced in the "Lutheraner" with a few words more, for