# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 05 01_S143
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Behold, that is the reason why St. Paul so highly exhorts above that we should be strong in the LORD and in the power of His might, that is, that we should not let ourselves be moved to yield a hair's breadth from the Word, but defend ourselves with good courage against such crafty assaults of the devil.

Support of the German Lutheran Preachers' Seminaries at Fort Wayne, Ind., and at present at Altenburg, Mo., and of the Gymnasium at the latter place.

We take the liberty of calling the attention of the preachers of our Synodical Connection in particular to the resolution which our Synod adopted here during its sittings of last year, "to have a collection taken up by their preachers in the congregations, that everyone may have opportunity to contribute according to his ability to the maintenance and enlargement of their institutions mentioned above."

May every preacher lay this matter upon the heart of his congregation in its importance and urgency, that many willing givers may open their hearts and hands and most effectively promote the most important work of our united strength to the honor of Christ and the welfare of His Church.

Should also such Lutheran Christians and preachers as do not belong to the connection of our Synod feel moved to support our institutions of learning, the undersigned Editorial Office thanks them for it most heartily in advance, and declares itself ready to receive the gifts of love, to deliver them, according to the designation of the givers, to the treasurers of the one or the other institution, and to acknowledge them publicly in the "Lutheraner."

The Editorial Office of the "Lutheraner."

"Take heed, and beware of covetousness!"

(Luke 12, 15.)

In a village in Lower Saxony there lived a poor couple who had an only son. He became a wheelwright and then went on his travels. Fully 12 years passed in which the parents heard nothing of him, and did not know whether he was still living or dead. But he lived, and because he was skillful and diligent, and kept his own together, he earned in foreign parts a fine sum of money. After 12 years he set out on the way home, to share his money with his poor parents as a grateful son, and to help support them also from his means. He had a comrade with him, who accompanied him as far as the village where his parents lived. As they came into the village toward evening, he said to him: "Listen, I want to give my parents a quite unhoped-for joy. This evening I will put up with them, and not say who I am. Tomorrow early, when I am still lying in bed, you come after and ask my parents whether their son is not here? And if they say: No! then you just say, he must surely be here, he surely arrived here. Then my parents will quickly run to my bed, and almost die for joy." — As said, so it happened. The son came in the evening to his parents, and pretended to be a stranger. He asked his parents that they would, since he did not like to be at the inn, give him a night's lodging for money and good words. He drew out thereupon a considerable purse of money, and gave them at once a guilder. The people took him in, but thought of nothing less than that this was their son. He had also so changed in the 12 years that they could not well know him any more. — But because he had so much money with him, they came upon the godless thought of striking him dead. They thought, since he was a stranger, who belonged to nobody, and since he had come in the evening quite late and alone, it could not possibly be betrayed, if they struck him dead. This wicked design they also carried out in the most dreadful manner. After the son had gone to sleep, and lay from weariness in deep, sound slumber, they opened the door softly, and dealt him with a wood-axe such a blow that he was dead at once. They then took his money from him and buried him in the night behind the barn in a pit. — The next morning the comrade came after, and asked, as agreed, whether their son had not arrived yesterday evening. How the unhappy parents were terrified at this question! They answered, however: No! The other remained stiff and firm in it, that he must be here; for the very stranger who had put up with them yesterday was their son, whom they had not seen in so long a time, and who had wished to make them a quite unhoped-for joy. Then both parents raised a lamentable cry; terror and anguish fell upon them, for now they perceived that they had slain their own son. The stranger, horrified at this abominable deed of these wicked people, hastened at once to report what had happened to the courts. The two parents were led to prison, and soon after received the deserved reward of their abominable deed.

(Geschichten-Almanach.)

(Communicated.)

Here the sword of the LORD and of Gideon.

O cry it with the trumpet's sound:
Here the sword of the LORD and of Gideon,
Here God, the ancient refuge!
Here Baptism and the holy Supper,
And heavenly goods without number;
Here God's pure Word!

Here vaults itself the dome of heaven;
Here wells the ever-living stream
In Word and Sacrament..
The soul, to death grown faint,
Drinks thereof and is satisfied;
For it has known the LORD.

O haste to the blessed meadow of heaven,
And drink the fresh dew of grace:
So shall the soul grow strong.
Forsake the vain fanaticism;
Ye weary souls, haste hither,
Eat everlasting marrow of life.

Ye proud foes, cease your threatening;
Humble yourselves, kiss God the Son,
Who will not be mocked.
Give God the LORD alone the honor!
Ye shall surely conquer nevermore;
For Zion stands yet fast.

LORD God, how rich and great Thou art!
Thou liftest us Thyself into Thy bosom,
And pressest us to Thy heart.
Thou leadest us through the field of tears
To Thee into the fair tent of heaven:
Therefore praise Him everywhere.

Therefore cry it with the trumpet's sound:
Here the sword of the LORD and of Gideon,
Here God's pure Word!
Here Baptism and the holy Supper,
And heavenly goods without number;
Here God the ancient refuge!

Hermann Fick.

Independence.

A king of France once asked an unknown man whom he met in his castle, to whom he belonged? The latter answered with a self-satisfied air: "To nobody but myself." — "My friend," replied the king, "then thou servest a very foolish master."

Declaration.

The dear readers of the "Lutheraner" will not be surprised that also in this and the next, as in the previous number of the "Lutheraner," resolutions are published concerning changes in the Constitution of the State of Missouri. According to a law of our State we were obliged to insert them three times.

Supplementary Reminder.

In the absence of the Editor it was neglected to state that the narrative communicated in the previous number: "How it once stood with the Lutheran Mission," etc., was taken from the "Volksblatt" of Tippelskirch.

Evangelisch-lutherisches Missionsblatt.

Edited by Karl Graul for the evangelical Lutheran Mission at Dresden (now at Leipzig).

Under this title there has been published for years at Blochmann's in Dresden a periodical in which, besides mission-historical accounts, report is made continually in condensed surveys on the state and progress of the heathen mission over the whole earth. This paper has before all other mission papers the essential advantage that it takes no part in the religion-mixing mission efforts of our time and therefore awakens and fosters zeal for the important work of the conversion of the heathen, without thereby killing zeal for the pure doctrine of our Church and entangling the readers in the net of a false Union. The subscription price for a whole year's volume of 24 sheets is 12 Neugroschen or 44 Kreuzers Rhenish (elegantly stitched, with 4 pictures well colored in water-color manner 20 Neugroschen). Missionary Baierlein (Saginaw, Mich.) offers to order the paper on request.

For the benefit of the Mission, Seminary Director K. Graul has furthermore published:

1. The Gospel of St. John, in Meditations for Family Devotions (Reprinted from the Würtemberg Summaries). Printed in large type, large 8vo, stitched for the price of 6 Ngr.

2. The Distinguishing Doctrines of the Various Christian Confessions in the Light of the Divine Word. Together with a demonstration of the significance of pure doctrine for the Christian life and an outline of the chief unhealthy tendencies. 8vo, stitched, 14 Ngr.

Also the last-named little books can be obtained in the way indicated above.

In the Expedition of the Lutheraner there are now to be had:

Dr. Luther's Hauspostille, New York edition, bound in leather $2.00.

Kirchen-Gesangbuch for ev.-luth. congregations, to which in the 4th edition the pericopes for Sundays and festivals, together with the description of the destruction of Jerusalem, are also added, published by the local ev.-luth. congregation U. A. C. In pressed calf leather, bound, 75 cts. the copy.
1 dozen $8.00 } for cash
100 copies $62.50 } payment.