# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 05 29_S160
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ty. How fair a star thou hast risen to me out of Jacob, what a lovely blossom thou springest from the root of Jesse, what a pleasant light hast thou, O Dayspring from on high, visited me! How one must marvel when one considers thy heavenly attributes, how they make themselves known in the conception by the Holy Ghost, in the birth of the Virgin, in the purity of thy life, in the streams of thy doctrine, in the lightnings of thy wonders! And how gloriously dost thou rise, O Sun of righteousness, after thy setting, from the heart of the earth, how gloriously dost thou betake thyself, O King, in thy resurrection garment, back to the height of heaven! All my bones say: LORD, who art thou?

Bernhard, Sermo 47 in Cantic.

The Great Danger.

"The devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." Whether we sleep or wake, eat or drink, do what we will; day and night he lies in wait for us with craft and cunning, and directs his arrows at us, now openly, now concealed. Countless snares has he cast before our feet, has filled our ways with nets of every kind. Snares has he laid in riches as in poverty, snares in words as in works. And yet men play and jest, as though they were safe and secure. The wicked foe watches, without sleeping and without sparing; men sleep without watching and praying. Soliloquia c. 16.

Report of World Affairs.

The long-cherished fears of a general European war are gaining ever greater probability. Already the fire of war is burning in the north, south and east of Europe. Denmark, encouraged by her powerful ally, Russia, has renewed the war, and already many a human life has been sacrificed by water and by land. The victory has lately been almost always on the side of the Germans. All the German harbors of the Baltic and North Seas are blockaded by the Danish ships, whereby German commerce suffers incalculable damage.

The King of Sardinia, compelled by his warlike Piedmontese, again took the field against the Austrians, was beaten, abdicated, fled to Spain, and is said to have the intention of visiting America. The Pope is still in exile, and the young Republic in Rome still stands, though on feeble feet. The French Republic has resolved to send out an army of 14,000 men for the reinstatement of the Pope in his temporal dominion. Unexpected are the victorious advances of the Hungarians against the imperial arms, which are said to have suffered several considerable defeats from the former. On both sides the war is carried on with great bitterness and cruelty.

Important events seem to be preparing in Constantinople. The Sultan, weary of the arrogant encroachments of the Russians upon his realm, is arming most actively and has refused the Russians the demanded passage of their war fleet through the Dardanelles.

As to the German Empire, the King of Prussia has been elected German Emperor by the Imperial Assembly, though by a very insignificant majority. The King has thereupon declared himself ready to undertake the provisional direction of the affairs of the German Empire; the imperial crown he will accept only in case it is also offered him by the reigning high princes concerned. According to the latest reports, on the 14th of April the plenipotentiaries of the 28 German governments, in a conference held with the Imperial Ministry at Frankfurt on the Main, signed a document in which those governments declare their consent to the imperial constitution and to the assumption of the imperial dignity by the King of Prussia, with the exception of Austria, Luxemburg, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony, which reserve their declarations.

Hübner's biblische Historien Reprinted Unchanged.

We have just received the news that in 4—6 weeks the above-named precious school book will leave the press at Mr. Ludwig's in New York, in an unchanged reprint. The name of Mr. Ludwig, who by God's help has already restored to our Church several treasures from the good old time, guarantees to us that this time we shall not be disappointed in our hopes. The price the esteemed publisher cannot yet determine exactly, but it is to be as cheap as ever possible. As soon as the book is ready for sending, the "Lutheraner" will announce it to its dear readers, in the confident hope that surely many preachers, teachers and fathers of families will, like us, seize with great joy and hearty thanks to God the opportunity offered them to put into the hands of the dear young souls entrusted to them a jewel for their whole life.

Church News.

After the Evangelical Lutheran congregation near Waterloo, Monroe Co., Ill., served for eight years by Pastor A. Schieferdecker, had released the same at his request, and had called Pastor Carl Schliepsiek from Westphalia as its future pastor, the latter was solemnly inducted into his office on Dom. Exaudi, by commission of the President of our Synod, by Pastor Schieferdecker. The former, on the other hand, besides his previous congregation in and near Columbia, has accepted the call of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Centreville, St. Clair Co., and entered upon his office at the latter place on Ascension Day. May God now give his grace that the purpose may be attained for the sake of which alone this change of office has taken place, namely, that from it more fruit and profit may arise for the care and pasturing of souls, and especially for the Christian instruction of the youth, and so the kingdom of our LORD JESUS Christ be furthered here also all the more.

On Dom. Rogate, the 13th inst., the candidate of theology from Prussia, Mr. C. H. Siegmund Buttermann, after he had received a regular call from the German Evangelical Lutheran congregation at Chester, Randolph County, Illinois, was ordained and solemnly inducted into his office before his congregation, by commission of the President of our Synod, by Pastor Löber, with the assistance of Pastor Gruber. This for glad tidings to all who make Jerusalem their chief joy. Psalm 137.

"The Evangelical Review."

We have already communicated in No. 25 of the 4th Jahrgang of our paper the prospectus of an English periodical to be published quarterly under the above title. From the "Lutheran Observer" we learn that Professor Reynolds, the editor, is resolved to begin the publication of this quarterly next 1st of July. We therefore once more call the attention of our readers, especially our brethren in the ministry, to this important publication in the field of our theological literature here, referring to the prospectus already communicated. Since payment in advance is a necessary condition, it is high time that those who wish to have the periodical send the amount of subscription ($3.00 for one and $5.00 for two copies) to the editor, the more so since he reports that his list of subscribers is only very small, in consequence of which the remuneration intended for the contributors cannot for the present be granted for their labor. Contributions of literary articles, subscription money, and the like are to be sent under the following address: Wm. M. Reynolds, Editor Evangelical Review, Gettysburgh, Pa.

Books and Pamphlets to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner at the prices appended.

Dr. Martin Luther's Small Catechism, unaltered reprint ... $0.10
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Remarkable Letter of a Lady who in the year 1703, for the sake of the Evangelical Lutheran religion, forsook her fatherland and all her goods and possessions with six mostly uneducated children ... 0.05
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The German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States

holds its sessions this year at Fort Wayne, Ind., from the 6th of June, as the second Wednesday after Pentecost, to the 16th of June inclusive. — The brethren who arrive are requested to repair to the residence of Pastor Dr. W. Sihler, — if need be, to inquire for the same at the German Store of Messrs. Orff and Schwegmann, Columbia Str., on the Canal. F. W. Husmann, Secretary pro tem. of the Synod.

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