# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 07 10_S184
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tendent. Destined early to become a preacher, he was soon placed by his parents in the Pädagogium at Magdeburg, where he enjoyed instruction for seven years and received his classical education. In the year 1841 he entered the University of Halle and in the year following that of Berlin and later again that of Halle, where in the year 1845 he completed his theological studies. After he had then held a position as private tutor for two years, he became afflicted in the chest, in consequence of which he emigrated to America on the advice of his physician. Last autumn he arrived here in St. Louis. God so ordered it that we soon made his acquaintance. Although reared and educated in the united Church of Prussia, the departed had yet by God's grace come to a quite simple faith, proved in manifold severe inward trials and grounded alone upon the Word; hence it came to pass that he, although he had come hither with manifold prejudices against the so-called Old Lutheranism, very soon let these prejudices fall, on the contrary became convinced of the unscripturalness of the principle of the united-evangelical Church, and at last resolved with great joy to join the Lutheran Church as the true Christian Church and to serve it here with all his gifts and powers. The longer and the oftener we had opportunity to become acquainted with the dear man, the more cause we found to thank the LORD that He had given him to our American-Lutheran Church. He distinguished himself, together with solid theological knowledge, Christian experience and excellent gifts as a preacher, by a most amiable personality, borne up by true Christian humility.

So it must not be a wonder to us if his former congregation, which has notified us of his death, writes among other things as follows: "God had heard our prayer and had endowed us with a true, orthodox, Ev. Lutheran preacher, who proclaimed to us the Word of God purely and administered the holy Sacraments according to Christ's institution; and who was withal so loving and so kind and so faithful in the LORD Jesus to his last end. . . . His last hours were very gentle, and his last words were those of the 90th Psalm: 'LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations,' etc. He comforted us until the last minute, that we should not weep for him, for he was going indeed to Christ; we should only pray for him. Dear Pastor, you cannot imagine it, there is also no pen that can express it, into what sorrow and affliction we are now fallen. As great and unspeakable as our joy was two months ago, when we received this faithful servant of Christ, so great is now the sorrow into which our joy has quickly been changed."

May then the LORD, who has given this His servant so soon his evening rest, let his memory flourish long in blessing, and soon bestow upon the dear orphaned congregation another faithful shepherd, and comfort and raise up His sorrowing Church by the gift of many new gifted and zealous laborers in His great harvest, in these last afflicted, dreadful times. Amen.

"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Rom. 7, 24.

The Boy: My life begins with tears,
With tears it must also close.
What I can now say thereof
Is nothing but pouring forth of tears.

The Youth: Venerable old man, I ask freely,
Say, what then is life?

The Old Man: With pain my course of life began,
With pain it ends again.
Dr. M. Luther.

Notice.

To the members of the Publication Society of the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, etc., it is hereby made known, in accordance with § 11 of the Constitution, that the Board of Publication has resolved to print Dr. Luther's work: "Brief an die Böhmen."

Hoffmann, Secretary.

The printing of the

Spruchbuch zum kleinen Katechismus Lutheri, compiled by order of the Synod of Missouri, etc., by Fr. Wyneken, pastor of the Second German Ev. Luth. Church in Baltimore, 112 pp. in 12mo., is finished, and may be had of the author at $1.80 the dozen.

New Address.

Rev'd Friedr. Besel,
P. O. Mount Hope, Holmes Co., O.

Letter Box.

Answer for P. C. M. in B. Co., Mo. — Your essay could not appear in the Lutheraner for the very reason that we cannot possibly undertake to prepare for the press the manuscripts of others which are written incorrectly.

Answer for P. H. S. L. in D. Co., Ind. — Official church notices can find admission in the Lutheraner only from such church bodies as prove themselves orthodox in doctrine as well as in practice.

Received

for the Mission Treasury:

50 cts. additional, on account of the congregations about Evansville, Ind. $1.52½ from members of congregations in St. Louis. $2.00 for the mission at Cass in Michigan through Mr. P. Hengist in West Greenville.

Paid.

The 2nd half of the 4th year.
The 1st half of the 5th year.
Mr. Andr. Busch. (The postmaster in West Greenville sent in last May only $2.00 for Messrs. P. Hengist and Bittenbaum.)

The 5th year. Messrs. Karl Fleiner, Peter Germann, Chrn. Graß, P. Krauß, Joh. Georg Kircher, Ludwig Mayer, Miss B. Nölting, Friedr. Niehauß, Carl Wischmeier.

The 2nd half of the 5th year. Messrs. P. Hengist, Mart. Krauß.

The 1st half of the 6th year. Messrs. P. Hengist, Mart. Krauß.

The 6th year. Messrs. Hesse and Peter Rücker.

Books and pamphlets to be had at the Expedition of the Lutheraner at the prices annexed.

Dr. Martin Luthers kleiner Katechismus, unaltered reprint ... $0.10
The dozen $1.00. Hundred copies $7.00.
Merkwürdiger Brief einer Dame, who in the year 1703, on account of the Ev. Lutheran religion, with six mostly unprovided children, left her fatherland and all her goods and possessions ... 0.05
The dozen 50 cts. 25 copies $1.00.
Dr. Luthers Sermon von "Bereitung zum Sterben" ... 0.05
Die Verfassung der deutschen ev.-luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. Staaten, with an introduction and explanatory remarks ... 0.05
The dozen 50 cts. 25 copies $1.00.
Erster Synodalbericht der deutschen ev.-luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. Staaten, of the year 1847 ... 0.10
Zweiter Synodalbericht of the same Synod, of the year 1848 ... 0.10
Third year of the Lutheraner, 1846—1847. Nos. 8—26 ... 0.50
Fourth ditto, 1847—1848 (complete) ... 0.50
(The 1st and 2nd years are out of print.)
Christliches Concordienbuch, i. e., Symbolical Books of the Ev. Luth. Church, New York edition, bound in pressed leather ... 1.25
Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus (in pamphlet form), 2 copies ... 0.05
Dr. M. Luthers Tractat von der wahren Kirche (separately reprinted from No. 9 of the Lutheraner), 2 copies ... 0.05
Dr. Luthers Hauspostille, or sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and festivals of the whole year, New York edition, bound in calf ... 2.00
Kirchengesangbuch für ev.-luth. Gemeinden, published by the local Ev. Luth. Congregation U. A. C., bound, the copy ... 0.75
1 dozen $8.00 } for cash.
100 copies $62.50 }
A B C Buch, New York edition, the copy ... 0.10
By the dozen ... 1.00
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn Pastors Grabau zu Buffalo (announced more fully in No. 17 of the Lutheraner) ... 0.25

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Editor of the Anzeiger des Westens.