# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 02 20_S104
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party is evidently gaining the upper hand more and more in all places. In Germany preparations are being made for a definitive election of an emperor; the King of Prussia seems to have the best prospects of the imperial crown. Austria wishes to separate itself entirely from the German Empire; the subjugation of the Hungarians is almost complete. Denmark shows a desire to renew the war over Holstein. In France it is quiet, and trade and business are beginning to revive. The Pope is still at Gaeta, a city in the Neapolitan territory, and has the hope of being reinstated in his old rights by the Catholic powers.

In the past year 51,973 German emigrants arrived in the port of New York.

The Church and the German National Assembly.

The "Dorfzeitung" writes, among other things, the following concerning the proceedings held in the National Assembly on the relation between church and state: "Along with many good words, the most frivolous and ill-considered speeches and jests, such as one should not expect from serious men in matters of such importance, have been heard. Vogt of Giessen and Jordan of Marburg have distinguished themselves in this. Vogt declared that what one calls the church must be wholly destroyed and exterminated from the earth. Everyone must be able to be a complete denier of God, at his pleasure; and one must count on complete freedom of the school and of the young in the process. Jordan also, the Catholic, declared himself for the annihilation of the church."

(Sent in.)

From Germany.

Here with us there are still the wildest ferments; it cannot yet be foreseen at all whither the insolence of the unbridled rabble will lead, or rather, how the judgments of God which have broken in upon us will run their course. It seems, however, as if the Lord would bless the Lutheran church. The Prussian Union, in these storms, since it is built upon sand, will collapse; this, it seems to me, is already evident now in the confused movements of the Prussian state church. In all the provinces, Silesia, Saxony, Pomerania, Brandenburg, (of East and West Prussia I recall having read nothing) there is a more or less powerful Lutheran movement, proceeding from the feeling that God the Lord has now Himself with His finger pointed to this, that only in the faithful, unveiled confession of His Word is a sure point to be found in these storms. In a short time, without question, the whole edifice of the Prussian state church, which still stands in a merely statistical sense, will fall together, and then the faithful, even if some immature and unclear ones remain, will build themselves up under the ruins on the ground of the Lutheran Confession, and the others may then see what they can do, or rather cannot do. One sees there quite plainly what all human church-founding is, how a wind blows about such loose stuff. I heard it said lately that the faithful perseverance of the separated Lutherans in Prussia now at last receives its reward of grace, since all in Prussia must now look to them and go over to them Important in recent times for our church has been the conference at Leipzig on the 30th and 31st of August, held under the auspices of Harless (in connection with the mission festival). Two hundred and sixty persons from almost all Lutheran lands (from our own country also [the Hanoverian] rather many, for example my brother at Lamspringe) were assembled. The following propositions, as resolution of the assembly, seem to me the most important result: "In view of the dangers which threaten the evangelical Lutheran Church, and for the preparation of the union of the same by lawful way, the conference resolves as follows: First, a number of men of evangelical Lutheran confession shall form a committee, which shall first confer, especially in writing, concerning the needs of the evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany under the present events of the time, and shall also, regarding the steps that may be necessary, initiate new deliberations by way of general and special conferences."

In a letter from the Kingdom of Saxony it is said of the Leipzig conference: "In it the question was first answered and decided, whether the Augsburg Confession is a sufficient confession for an evangelical Lutheran Christian? that every rejection of another Lutheran confession would contain a vote of no confidence against the spirit of knowledge and faith manifested in the church, since all confessions up to the Formula of Concord are only confirmations and expositions of the Confessio Augustana."

(Sent in.)

Request.

No city of America contains so great a number of German inhabitants as New York; they are reckoned at 60,000. Thousands of them live without church, thousands of children without school, at least without Christian instruction. It is always a great grief to me to see this misery and to be able to contribute so little in my part to remedy it. My congregation, still small in number and consisting for the most part of persons of small means, brings great sacrifices to meet the common church expenses, and, I can assure you, does it with willing heart; but we must still content ourselves with a narrow, rented hall, which serves us at once as church and school, and can therefore offer room only to a comparatively small number of guests. Our hall is usually overfilled, and the number of hearers would certainly be far greater if our place of assembly were more spacious and had a more church-like exterior. Thus my influence upon the great multitude of the Germans surrounding us is but very slight, apart from 50 to 60 children whom I allow to take part in my school. My congregation feels this need with me and for two years has begun to form a fund for the building of a spacious church. The capital has grown so far, through a collection gathered here, as well as through a considerable gift from the neighboring sister congregation of Pastor Wyneken at Baltimore, that we hoped this spring to proceed to the execution of our intention; yet a renewed comparison of the means at hand and of the costs counsels us to take still a further delay, in case it might please God to open to us still other sources of help. Were it merely to remedy our own want, we should not dare to burden other congregations with a request for assistance; and we would gladly, as hitherto, content ourselves with our needy little hut; only the consideration of the general need and the most earnest wish that the church of the pure confession might also in this city extend the space of her tent further, opens my mouth to ask distant fellow believers for help. I know well that most of our congregations in the interior of the country have enough to bear in their own burdens, and I agree fully with the principle that for church buildings each individual congregation must properly provide for itself; but if the dear brethren were to see how almost all sects here ply their trade among the poor German people and draw crowds of the careless, ignorant Lutherans over to their side, I am sure they would gladly contribute a mite, that the church of the unaltered Augsburg Confession might also here get a firm shelter, wherein she could gather her neglected children. No one, surely, will impute to me the foolish opinion, as if I expected the salvation of the church from a stone building; but it is certain that a spacious church building would become to many an occasion to hear the Word of life. All contributions, however small, would be received most gratefully, and I request that they be sent either directly under my address or through the editorial office of the Lutheraner. Their receipt will in due time be announced in this paper.

New York, the 1st of February 1849.

Theodor J. Brohm,

evang.-luth. pastor, residing at 170 Second St.

Notice.

At the lithographic establishment of L. Gast in St. Louis, Mo., are to be had:

32 Confirmation Certificates

with Bible verses and hymn verses, likewise with biblical pictures and marginal drawings. Lithographed and published by Leopold Gast. Price: 1 dollar.

☞ The undersigned editorial office feels constrained to recommend these confirmation certificates most heartily to the reverend preachers. The Bible verses and hymn verses which they contain are suitably selected, and the biblical pictures and emblems are executed with Christian feeling and taste. We never saw anything more beautiful of this kind. Whoever wishes to give his confirmands something truly lovely in remembrance of the day of confirmation will find here a fine opportunity. The Ed. of the "Luth."

The bookstore of Rohland and Detharding, No. 9 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, Mo., recommends:

Der Pilger aus Sachsen.

A Christian periodical. 14th year. 52 numbers $1.00.

Received

for the mission on the Cass River in Mich.:

55 cents from members of the congregation here. $1.58 from the congregation of Rev. P. Besel.

for the Synodical Mission Treasury:

$1.00 from Mr. Steinbrück. $9.50 from the congregation of Rev. P. Fürbringer. $4.87½ from members of the congregation here.

Paid.

The 2nd half of the 4th year. Messrs. Balthas Bienz, J. G. Reidenbach.

The 4th year. Rev. P. Besel.

The 5th year. Messrs. Joh. Brenner, Balth. Bienz, P. Brohm (16 copies), Gerh. H. Brockschmidt, Törner, Christoph Dietzel, Dr. Henkel, Jakob Horn, Michael Hochmuth, Abrah. Joachim (through double payment for the 4th year), P. J. Isensee, Körner, Landwehr, Jakob Redel, J. G. Reidenbach, P. Schröer (2 copies), Ludwig Schum, P. Stübgen, P. Schieferdecker (2nd half).

Printed by Arthur Olshausen,

Publisher of the Anzeiger des Westens.