# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1949 09 27_S328 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 328 all happened only yesterday. One thing is certain: only that has lasting value over which we shall one day rejoice in heaven! At Pentecost 1549 the Prayer Book of the Anglican Church was dedicated to use by the people, and Cranmer above all had worked for this. Hence also the celebration at Oxford on Whitmonday 1949. J. T. M. In Memoriam Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God. Heb. 13:7. Henry W. Horst, LL. D., of the Lutheran Immanuel congregation in Rock Island, Ill., and from 1917 to 1944 a member of the Board of Directors of our Synod, fell asleep in the Lord on August 26 after an illness of two and a half years. On April 9, 1947, he suffered a stroke in Miami, and from September 15, 1948, he lay in the hospital. Dr. Horst was born on May 3, 1864, in Rendsburg, Germany. As a youth of seventeen he came to Rock Island. But soon he went to Kansas, where he established a home for himself on the wide prairie and in Oakley in the year 1886 began business as a building contractor, a business he carried on almost to the end of his life; later, after he had returned to Rock Island in the year 1892, he took one of his sons, A. E. Horst, into the business with him. From the year 1927 the business, the Horst Company, was directed from Philadelphia. In the course of the years this firm built many of the largest and finest business buildings of our country, as well as churches, hundreds of dwellings, and a subway in Philadelphia that cost $3,000,000. As already noted, Mr. Horst served our Synod for 27 years as a member of the Board of Directors, which then, when he asked not to be re-elected, made him an honorary member. Some years ago he made an exact inventory of our synodical institutions with all their appurtenances (real estate, buildings, equipment) and stated their monetary value at that time. In the year 1928 he was sent by the Board of Directors to South America to look into our mission work there. He was a co-founder and a zealous member of the Lutheran Laymen's League (L. L. L.) and of the Concordia Historical Institute. The honorary title Doctor of Laws (LL. D.) was conferred on him by the faculty of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. On July 3, 1884, Mr. Horst married Miss Mollie Empe of St. Louis. Of this marriage were born four sons: Anton E., Philadelphia; Carl W. and Lester R., Rock Island; Henry T., Moline; and three daughters: Mrs. Henry Witt, Davenport; Mrs. Louis F. Wendt, Chicago; and Mrs. Edwin Hilgendorf, Miami. His wife preceded him into eternity on September 27, 1927, as did, earlier, a little daughter of 6 years. On September 3, 1933, Mr. Horst married Miss Ellen Marie Sundeen. This his widow, the sons and daughters named, a sister in Germany, 14 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren survive the departed. The funeral service took place on August 29 in Immanuel Church in Rock Island. The undersigned, his pastor, conducted the service and gave a short funeral address on Gen. 5:24, in which he pointed out that the departed, in his business, in his social intercourse, in the midst of his family, in his sphere of church activity, and finally in the days of his suffering "walked with God," until "God took him." Dr. J. W. Behnken, the President of our Synod, preached on John 12:26: 1. God made the departed a follower of Christ; 2. God has now honored him. Dr. Behnken also pointed out that we owe God thanks for having set the departed to be a blessing for many among us. Mr. E. W. Schröter spoke in the name of the Lutheran Laymen's League. The mortal body of the departed was laid to rest in Immanuel Cemetery, where it now rests until the blessed resurrection. Herman F. C. Wetzel New Publications Concordia Bible Student. Vol. XXXIX, No. 1. October—December, 1949. 64 pages. 65 cents per annum; single copy, 20 cents. Concordia Bible Teacher. Vol. XI, No. 1. October—December, 1949. 80 pages. $1.00 per annum; single copy, 30 cents. Edited by Rev. J. M. Weidenschilling. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. In these two booklets — the one for the pupils, the other for the teacher — the history of the Christian Church from the time of Christ and the apostles to the present day is briefly presented. Many of our Christians do not know the history of the Lutheran Church here in our country, indeed perhaps not even the history of their own Synod, to say nothing of the history of the Church through the course of the centuries. Therefore we recommend these booklets not only to our Bible classes but to all our Christians. The Book of Acts tells us the history of the Christian Church in its first years in New Testament times. By including this book in the Scriptures, God has shown us that it is pleasing to Him and wholesome for us Christians when we learn how the Church of Christ spread in the course of time, what dangers threatened it, what battles for the pure doctrine it had to fight, and that, as the Savior promised, even the gates of hell could not prevail against the Church, and it therefore always remained victorious in the battle. J. H. C. F. Warum heute lutherische Freikirche? By Hans Kirsten. Lutheraner-Verlag, G. m. b. H. Frankfurt am Main. 11 pages 5¾×8¼. Price: D. M. .50. Whoever wants to inform himself quickly about the situation of the Lutheran Free Church in Germany and about its right to exist will find the opportunity to do so in this pamphlet. J. H. C. F. News for the Congregational Chronicle Ordinations and Installations The commission for all ordinations and installations is to be given by the respective District President. The installations of teachers at parish schools also are to take place by commission of the respective District President. (By-laws to the Constitution of Synod, 4.17.) Candidates for the Ministry Ordained: Wangerin, Norman, in Emmaus Church, Milwaukee, Wis., assisted by the Revs. F. F. Selle, Theo. J. Müller, Harvey Wangerin, and Prof. C. A. Hardts, by the Rev. Victor M. Selle on the 10th Sunday after Trinity, August 21. Ordained and installed: Jacobsmeyer, Harold W., in Trinity congregation, Holton, Kans., assisted by the Revs. W. H. Jurgens, Benedict Schwarz, and W. C. Lohmeyer, by the Rev. L. W. Polley on the 13th Sunday after Trinity, September 11.