# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1848 10 17_S31
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ten. In the midst of these commotions voices are heard: Long live the Republic!

In Hungary everything is in the utmost excitement. The Hungarian Diet sent a deputation to Vienna to demand a declaration from the Emperor whether he wished to keep the crown of Hungary, and in case he should answer in the affirmative, to request him to come with them to Pesth. The deputation returned without the Emperor and without an answer from Vienna, and its return was the occasion of great excitement. In the Hungarian Diet the appointment of a Dictator was resolved upon; and the next news from there may be a declaration of independence of the Hungarian people. The Diet also appointed a committee to negotiate with the rebellious Croats and to make them all possible fair concessions; yet the prospects of a peaceful settlement are not very encouraging.

The French-English mediation in Italy has been accepted by Austria, after it had first been declined; yet this acceptance is by no means a guarantee for the restoration of peace.

The city of Messina in Sicily has been taken by the Neapolitans after a desperate defense, and for the most part changed into a heap of ashes.

The above news is, alas, only confirmed by later news which arrived here on the 7th of October. There is no doubt that, unless the hand of the LORD quickly change all, mighty overthrows are impending in Germany. The King of Prussia has declared, on the petition of his ministers to be dismissed, that without the maintenance of the principle set up by them the constitutional monarchy cannot subsist. Now, however, the Prussian Diet has overthrown that principle of the ministers; consequently matters stand at the extremest point. In Potsdam the regiments of the Guard (which were always held to be loyal to the king) are said to have rebelled against their officers and to have let the Revolution and the National Assembly live. Barricades also have been built, and the Prince of Prussia is said to have left Berlin at once upon this news, as also the King.

In Frankfurt an insurrection broke out on the 17th of September, barricades were erected, and the people fought against the civic guard and the soldiers. On both sides many dead remained. In Saxony there is likewise an insurrection near Chemnitz, and even in the suburbs of Chemnitz there is fearful fighting behind barricades. The insurrection seems still to continue.

In Silesia the weavers are rising again.

In Vienna there is, as always, anarchy and tumult, as they say, on account of the treacherous understanding of the court with the leader of the Croats, Jellachich, who is advancing irresistibly and will perhaps appear before Vienna.

In France the opinion spreads more and more that the Republic will not last much longer.

Church News.

Most readers will doubtless remember, from a notice already given in this paper and from the second synodical report of our Synod, that the Lutheran congregations in Pomeroy and Chester Township, Meigs Co., Ohio, accused their former pastor before the Synod of unfaithfulness in office. The Synod caused the matter to be investigated on the spot by a commission of three of its members, in consequence of which, yet before the conclusion of the proceedings, the accused, Mr. Romanowsky,*) resigned his pastoral office. Thereby the said dear congregations have become without a pastor. They have, however, lately called in due form Mr. Ludwig Habel, candidate of the holy ministry from Berlin, as their new pastor. He applied to our Synod, and has now, after having passed his examination well, on the last fourteenth Sunday after Trinity been ordained to his holy office by our Vice-President, Dr. Sihler, with the assistance of Pastor and Professor Wolter and Pastor Claus, in Fort Wayne before the assembled congregation there, according to the usage and manner of our Church. May the LORD cause the said congregations, which have lately given unmistakable proofs that they cleave as faithfully to our dear Church and her doctrine as they long for faithful pastoral care, to flourish joyfully under their new pastor!

The Lutheran Churches in St. Louis, Mo.

The officers of the Synod of Illinois have had inserted in the "Lutheran Observer" a public appeal to the Lutheran Church of America for the ecclesiastical provision for the Lutherans living scattered in Illinois. The statistical report given in this "Appeal" is very inaccurate and faulty. We will correct only One statement. It says, namely, among other things, that in St. Louis "five or six Lutheran churches are to be found." That is false. There are here only two Lutheran churches, which belong to the One German Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the unaltered Augsburg Confession here. Besides these there are still two German United-Evangelical and One German so-called Evangelical-Protestant church here, in the latter of which a most sorrowful subject, a certain Mr. Picker, teaches on Sundays a great number of Germans the religion of the old Adam, which he then practices in the week-days in the taverns here, etc., with his dear pastoral children entrusted to him. We wish not that the shame be done to our dear Church of being confounded with any of the said, least of all with the last, in which JESUS Christ, the highly praised Son of God, is denied and blasphemed.

*) As we hear, he is now carrying on his doings among discontented members of the congregation of Pastor Keyl in Freistadt near Milwaukee in Wisconsin.

The Baltimorer Kirchenbote.

A friend writes us just now, among other things, the following: "Have you read the impudent notice in Weyl's Kirchenbote, that in the whole Pennsylvania Synod there are scarcely 10 preachers who believe and teach differently in the doctrine of the Holy Supper from the (as is well known Zwinglian) views of the General Synod? It serves the Synod right, which was not ashamed to conclude its hundredth-year jubilee by declaring this miserable paper to be its organ, and thereby to proclaim its spiritual death to the world, that the epitaph is set for it by this man." We have not read what is here reported to us; we therefore hereby bring this to sorrowful notice. We hope, moreover, that Mr. Weyl in this matter bears witness against the notice just as well as in his paper of the 8th of last month, where he writes: "We have reason to believe that Prof. Reynolds (in his Review), like ourselves (like Mr. Weyl), will take the middle way (between truth and falsehood?)."

(Communicated.)
Methodism.

When a paper calls itself a "Christian" one, and moreover in such large letters as the Apologete, it is certainly no wholly unreasonable expectation of the reader to find nothing unchristian in it. But this expectation is only too sorely disappointed. The communications about the latest events of the times are almost all written from a revolutionary standpoint. Yea! an article is even admitted in which a spirit is extolled: "From the depths of the new sovereign human life it worked and broke forth with the thunder and flames of the Revolution, not with a timid pious hand: — The blouse flutters over from France, the hand seized the crowbar, built barricades, reached for the crown, etc."

Now, this spirit of rooting up, breaking down and murder we know well; his name is Satan, and hell follows him, and the Rationalists worship him: — and how? among them also the editor of the Apologete? he too dancing around the golden calf of the Revolution? he too paying homage to the new god of the earth?

So we must conclude, namely, alas, since Mr. Nast will surely admit nothing which he holds to be unchristian, for he calls his paper a Christian one, an Apologete, in German Defender; Mr. Nast sets himself thereby the task of defending Christianity, yet no! — not pure Christianity, but Methodism, whose doctrine is rationalistic, since it esteems the holy Sacraments as mere signs; whose whole endeavor is egoistic (self-interested, selfish), since it seeks only spiritual lust of feeling in this world, deliverance from punishments in that. It is said that at the camp-meetings carnal lust also is practiced.

May Mr. Nast cease to admit articles which approvingly extol insurrection, rebellion, revolution. Revolution is forbidden in God's Word. "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers." Rom. 13, 1.

It is wrong to court the antichristian spirit of the world; now it behooves us to confess Christ, even there where He is most hated by the world, namely in His doctrine, not to resist the authorities as a divine ordinance.

H. Fick.