# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1848 12 26_S72
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The old man answers modestly:
"It becomes me, Lord,
To suffer the strict law,
Me, the lowly servant.
How can I teach otherwise,
To increase the kingdom of the LORD,
Than as it is written?
His will remains just,
I will hold still to Him."
And thereupon he bows and goes;

And he wards off lamentation at home,
And lays everything aside
And takes from his chamber
The Bible and the staff.
The mother, pale with grief,
The youngest child in her arms,
The second by the hand —
So he steps to the threshold
And looks up into the brightness
And gladly shuns city and land.

Who goes in the distant valley
The weary pilgrim's way,
In the hot sunbeams
Along the flat heath? —
They wander joyful in faith,
As though arbors bloomed for them,
Toward the foreign land.
And when the day was spent,
So there offers, shut in the wood,
A hospitable roof to the little band repose.

O behold the sweet slumber
Of the little ones on the bench!
Into the mother's heart sorrow,
Though it fought so much, sank:
"Who then will take pity on the poor ones
In a strange land
And be their advocate?
Who will soften the heart?
The hard men reach
To the hungry a stone for bread.

The pious poet smiles:
"They stand in God's keeping!"
The palm of faith fans for him
Joyfulness and courage;
And where such blossom
Unfolds in the heart,
Happiness is never far.
He goes out in haste
And after a little while brings back
The comfort's golden song:

"Commit thou thy ways
And what grieves the heart,
To the most faithful care
Of Him who rules the heavens."
Then it seems to their senses
As if fear had gone from them
And all care had fled.
For hardly was the song heard,
When there came upon them
The peace of God from on high.

They swear quietly and look
Out into wood and night,
And over dusky meadows
The golden splendor of the stars;
They swear, though the waves
Should swell up to the soul,
To trust for ever and ever.
And when the oath was taken
And had flown heavenward,
There stands the help before the door.

For outside there paws in the sand
Already the horse's foot,
There brings from Saxon land
The messenger this greeting:
"To the singer health and peace!
I am sent hither
By Elector Christian;
He will honor the sufferer,
Him who, faithful in doing and teaching,
Has seen the angels of God walk.

He has chosen thee,
To feed a flock;
And what thou hast lost there,
Be threefold granted thee!
Up! the morning dawns,
Leave the cares behind,
God hath turned the distress!
The borders beckon us,
Ere stars shine again,
Friend and fatherland embrace thee."

Schmidt of Lübeck.

Report of Events in the World.*)

The earlier reports turned our eyes to the East of Europe and especially to Vienna, in which city on the 6th of October a bloody struggle of the people against the imperial party had broken out, which had as its result a second flight of the Emperor and the court from Vienna to Olmütz in Moravia. A considerable army under the command of Prince Windischgrätz, the same who had already shown himself so terrible to the people of Prague, advanced against the rebellious imperial city, and the notorious Jellachich also appeared with his Croats. For several weeks it remained doubtful what outcome the inevitable struggle would take, until at last the news has arrived of the conquest of Vienna by the imperial troops. The people of Vienna, hoping for the support of the Hungarians, refused obstinately to surrender, and even made imperious demands of a general amnesty, the setting up of a popular ministry, and the removal of all military from the neighborhood of Vienna.

Thereupon the imperial commander began on the 25th of October to bombard the unhappy city, until on the 31st of October it fell into the hands of the victor, after on the 30th also the Hungarians, who had hastened to the relief of the city, had been beaten back. The people are said to have defended themselves with great obstinacy, what one is pleased to call heroism, especially also the students, of whom a part are said to have been cut down or hanged. About 1500 Viennese are said to have fallen, several suburbs burned and a number of palaces destroyed. Since the siege by the Turks in the year 1683 Vienna has probably never again been so distressed. The victor naturally lets Vienna feel his heavy arm, is already exercising a strict rule, and will take bloody revenge on the leaders of the people.

The newspapers are full of laments over the frustrated strivings for freedom, which, if they had succeeded, would probably have been the signal of insurrection for all Germany. Christians do not lament this failure, but they lament the unfortunate who have fallen and, because as rebels, have lost both body and soul; they think thereby with fear and trembling of the word of their LORD: he that taketh the sword shall perish with the sword. Let the Emperor and his party be who and what they will, the rebellion against him remains nevertheless a damnable resistance against God's ordinance. Whether in consequence of these lamentable events the wheel will come back into the old track, the near future will teach. Striking herein is the weakness of the German central power. The Imperial Regent sent, soon after the outbreak of the Vienna revolution, commissioners to Austria with the charge to mediate a bloodless settlement of the hostilities. While these messengers of peace were received very hospitably by the Emperor at Olmütz, the imperial commander meanwhile, caring little for their mission, dealt the Viennese the deadly blow.

At Berlin a so-called Democratic Congress lately met, but soon broke up without accomplishing anything. On the other hand, a threatening dissension has arisen between the King and the Prussian Diet over the choice of a reactionary ministry, which was feared.

What will take place in Italy, where the enemies of Austria are stirring anew, and in France, where the question is the choice of a president of the new republic, the next newspapers will make known.

Church news comes over very sparsely; one hears of assemblies and conferences, but little of their results; they seem to talk much of constitutions and organizations of the Church, but little of the indispensable return to Luther's Reformation and doctrine; they are pregnant with plans of a great German national church, but on the broad foundation of ecclesiastical indifferentism; they no longer want a forced, but rather a voluntary Union; they set up theses on the nature of the Church and her relation to the State, which betray as little earnest consciousness of the need of the present, but rather resemble abstract calculations of letters.

*) These reports have been considerably delayed, unfortunately, by the mail service, now hindered in the country by the unfriendly weather. Ed.

The Following Books

are to be had of the undersigned at the appended prices in larger or smaller lots against cash payment.

Concordienbuch ... $1.25
D. Luthers Hauspostille ... 2.00
Katechismus ... 0.18¾
Gesangbuch ... 0.75
Lesebuch ... 0.25
Buchstabierbuch ... 0.18¾
A. B. C. Buch ... 0.12½
Starks Gebetbuch ... 1.25
Life of Luther ... 2.00
Schott's Augsb. Conf. 12mo ... 0.75
„ „ „ 18mo ... 0.12½
English Luth. Catechism ... 0.18¾
Catechism of Distinctive Doctrines ... 0.12½

Indianapolis, Ind., December 1848.
J. G. Kunz, Lutheran pastor.

Received

for the building of the church (consecrated on the 20th Sunday after Trinity 1848) of the Lutheran congregation in Kosciusko County, Ind.

1) from the congregation of Rev. Pastor Sihler at Fort Wayne $9.00.

2) from the German Ev. Lutheran congregation in Pomeroy, Meigs County, O., 7.00.

To the kind donors I say in the name of my congregation hearty thanks and wish them God's rich blessing. G. K. Schuster, Lutheran pastor.

Received

for the Lutheran mission on the River Cass in Michigan:

$1.50 through Rev. P. Heid. $2.00 from Mr. Peterseim.

for the Synodical Mission Treasury:

$1.70 from various members of the congregation in Altenburg.

Paid.

Volume 4: Mr. Roßwag.

The first half of Volume 5: Mr. C. G. Cruse.

Volume 5: The Messrs. Birner, Gebr. Bergt, Burkhardt, G. Bippus, P. Bippus, Ch. Bippus, P. Crämer (2 copies), Denius, Dolde, Adam Dielmann, Eggers and Joh. Popp, Dietr. Hellwege, Höhne sen. and Grebing, Heddrich, P. Heid, Kühnert, Klügel, Jacob Kunz, Ludwig Mayer $2.00 to No. 16, Johannes Nessel $1.00, likewise Palisch, P. Saupert, Staiger, Settlage, W. Schnur, Chr. Sauer, P. Schuster (3 copies), P. Schliepsiek.

Printed by Arthur Olshausen,
Publisher of the Anzeiger des Westens.