# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 09 04_S8
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of modern times wanted to mix heaven and earth together, but how miserably they have been cast down; with what a pitiful whimpering has the high-flown clamor for Reform, Progress of the Nations, Overthrow of the Throne, etc. come to an end! When God the Almighty wills a reform, then it will go, otherwise not, as among others the example of Jeroboam proves, 1 Kings 11, 32. The LORD is King!

A. Sch.

In Praise of the Office of the Schoolteacher.

Thus Luther writes: "This I say briefly: a diligent, pious schoolmaster or master, or whoever he may be that faithfully trains and teaches boys, him one can never reward enough, nor pay with any money, as the heathen Aristotle also says. Yet it is among us*) so shamefully despised, as if it were nothing at all, and yet we would be Christians. And I, if I could or had to give up the office of preaching and other matters, would wish for no office rather than to be a schoolmaster or teacher of boys. For I know that this work, next to the office of preaching, is the most useful, greatest and best, and I do not know moreover which of the two is the best. For it is hard to make old dogs tame and old rogues pious, at which the office of preaching labors and must labor much in vain; but the young saplings one can better bend and train, although some break over it. Dear friend, let it be one of the highest virtues on earth to bring up strangers' children faithfully, which very few and scarcely anyone does for his own." (Sermon, "That one should keep children at school," of 1530.)

*) Would to God that the "us" concerned only the people in Luther's time and not also us in America now.

In another place Luther says: "Schoolmasters have been accustomed to speak, in the schools with their scholars, how one should handle and expound the sayings of Holy Scripture finely. I would that no one were chosen to be a preacher unless he had first been a schoolmaster. Now the young fellows want to become preachers straightway, and flee the labor of the schools. But when one has kept school, about ten years, he may with a good conscience leave it; for the labor is too great and men hold it cheap. Yet there is as much depending in a city upon a schoolmaster as upon the pastor. Burgomasters, princes and noblemen we can do without, schools we cannot do without, for they must govern the world. One sees today that there is no potentate or lord but he must let himself be governed by a jurist and theologian; they can do nothing of themselves and are ashamed to learn, therefore it must flow forth from the schools. And if I were not a preacher, I know no station on earth which I would rather have. But one must not look to how the world rewards and esteems it, but how God regards it and will praise it on that day." (Werke. Hall. XXII, 1028.)

A Request.

The German Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Harford County, Maryland, wishes to build a little church. It is small, but inhabits a place to which certainly more and more Germans will move; it has had to endure many and heavy trials, but just because it has endured the trial without being destroyed, we no longer doubt that it will stand and, by God's grace, become in that region the city that is set on a hill. It desires only a small log church, in order to gather, with the many German inhabitants of that region, about God's Word and Sacrament, but even for a small church its means do not suffice. Belonging to our Synod, it therefore asks all friends of the Word of God and of His holy Church for a small contribution, and wishes the kind givers God's rich blessing, according to the saying: He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. Prov. 19, 17. Gifts are received by the Rev. Messrs. Wyneken in Baltimore and Walther in St. Louis, as also by

A. Hoyer, Pastor.

The False Faith.

So does the false, painted faith always: as long as it goes and stands well with it, it is proud, even above God and all that is God, and is so hardened and stiff that never was any anvil so hard. But when it begins to sink and to despair, there is also nothing more timid nor more fainthearted in heaven and earth, so that it would gladly creep into a mouse-hole and the wide world becomes too narrow for it, and then both among enemies and friends, both among the despised and the highly praised, it seeks help and counsel and would gladly accept it. — Luther on Jon. 1, 5.

A Popular Custom.

Among the Wends dwelling in the Saxon Upper Lusatia it is the custom that the midwife, when she returns from church with a newly baptized child to its mother, gives the latter the child with the words: "A heathen ye gave us, a Christian we bring back."

Church News.

In consequence of a call which the former pastor of the German Evangelical Lutheran congregation at Marion, Ohio, Mr. Adam Ernst, had received and accepted from the one at Town Eden, New York, he was publicly installed in his new office by P. E. M. Bürger, by commission of the Synod, on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity, the 12th of August of this year. May the LORD equip the shepherd for faithful feeding and fighting, and may He rule the flock, as often as it hears the voice of the good Shepherd from the mouth of His under-shepherd, to follow, and lead at last shepherd and flock into the heavenly folds! — The dear brother's address is henceforth: Rev. A. Ernst, White's Corner P. O., Erie Co., N. Y.

Because of the refusal of his congregation to submit to the discipline and order commanded in God's Word, Mr. Pastor J. Trautmann in Danbury, Ottawa Co., O., has been compelled to leave it. He has complied with a request to place himself at the side of Mr. Pastor Röbbelen, as assistant preacher in his great field of labor. His present address is therefore: Rev. J. Trautmann, Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio.

The Ladder of Wisdom.

The famous scholar Reuchlin (died 1521) describes the course of study of the students as follows: "In the first year they know how to decide all disputed questions; in the second year they begin to become uncertain of it; in the third they perceive that they know nothing; and then they first begin to learn."

Changed Address:
Rev. Martin Sondhaus,
Longhill P. O., Morris Co., N. J.

Church Notice.

We have just learned that the Synod of Indianapolis assembles on the 27th of this month, Thursday after the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.

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

Dr. Martin Luther's small Catechism, unaltered reprint. $0.10
The dozen $1.00. Hundred copies $7.00.
Remarkable Letter of a Lady who in the year 1703, on account of the Evangelical 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. Luther's Sermon on "Preparation for Dying". 0.05
The Constitution of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, together with an Introduction and explanatory Remarks. 0.05
The dozen 50 Cts. 25 copies $1.00.
First Synodical Report of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, of the year 1847. 0.10
Second Synodical Report of the same Synod, of the year 1848. 0.10
Third volume of the Lutheraner, 1846—1847. Nos. 8—26. 0.50
Fourth ditto, 1847—1848 (complete). 0.50
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Christian Book of Concord, that is, Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, New York edition, bound in embossed leather. 1.25
Conversations between Two Lutherans on Methodism, (in pamphlet form) 2 copies. 0.05
Dr. M. Luther's Tract on the True Church (printed separately from No. 9 of the Lutheraner), 2 copies. 0.05
Dr. Luther's House Postil, or Sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and Festival days of the whole year, New York edition, bound in calf. 2.00
Hymnal for Evangelical Lutheran Congregations, published by the local Evangelical Lutheran Congregation U. A. C., bound, each. 0.75
1 dozen $8.00 } for cash payment.
100 copies $62.50 }
A B C Book, New York edition, each. 0.10
By the dozen. 1.00
The Pastoral Letter of the Rev. Pastor Grabau at Buffalo (more fully noticed in No. 17 of the Lutheraner). 0.25
(The price given in Nos. 21—25 of the previous volume for the latter is a misprint.)

Letter Box.

To A. E. in T. E., N. Y. — The box has arrived safely.

To A. L. in E., Mo. — If the biography is not prolix, is written in a dignified style, and contains fewer reasonings than facts, it is welcome for the "Lutheraner."

Money received

for the Seminary at Fort Wayne through Mr. Past. Schürmann from his congregation $4.00. Wolter.

Received

for the church building of the "First German Ev. Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation" in Chicago, Ill.

Through Mr. P. Allbach from his congregation near Fort Wayne, Ind., $4.05. From Mr. P. A. Lehmann, Cape Girardeau, Mo., $1.00. A. Selle, Pastor.

Received

for the Mission in Michigan:

$6.47½ from members of the congregation in St. Louis.

Paid.

The 3rd volume. The Rev. Messrs. Buße and Rally.
The 4th volume, the Rev. Messrs. Buße, Mich. Hochmuth and Rally.
The 2nd half of the 4th volume. Mr. P. Sondhaus.
The 2nd half of the 5th volume. Mr. Fr. Ahlmeyer.
The 5th volume. The Rev. Messrs. Hunger and Sondhaus.
The 6th volume. The Rev. Messrs. Eyrich, Joach. Gollmar, Mich. Grüninger, P. Stecher.

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