# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 11 13_S48
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minary at Fort Wayne, from the Church militant into the Church triumphant, and the professorship of historical and systematic theology at the said Seminary has thereby become vacant, there is hereby issued, after the Board of Supervisors has appointed Rev. P. Biewend to the interim discharge of the said vacant teaching office, in accordance with the Statutes for the Seminary at Fort Wayne, § 10 (see: Zweiter Synodalbericht, p. 16), to the members of the Electoral College concerned, the summons to send in their nominations for the presentation of candidates for the vacant professorship as soon as possible to the present Secretary, Rev. P. Fick, under the address of the undersigned.

C. F. W. Walther,
at present President.

(Communicated.)

Missionary Zeal of the Ancient Church.

Eusebius describes in the third book of his Church History, chapter 37, the successful spread of Christianity under the Roman emperor Trajan, who reigned from the year 98 to 117 after the birth of Christ, and the great activity of the Church of that time for this purpose. The disciples of that day, he says, built further upon the foundation laid by the apostles and "scattered the saving seed of the kingdom of heaven throughout the breadth of the whole world." "For indeed," he relates further, "very many of the disciples of that time, seized by a more fervent love for the truth through the divine word, first fulfilled the wholesome commandment and distributed their goods among the poor. Thereupon they went into foreign lands and performed the work of evangelists, striving to preach Christ to those who had as yet heard nothing at all of the word of faith, and to impart to them the Scripture of the divine Gospels. But in foreign regions they laid only the foundation of the faith, and, when they had appointed other men as shepherds and committed to them the care of the newly converted, they sought out, with the assistance of divine grace, other lands and peoples again. And because at that time very many wondrous powers of the divine Spirit also wrought through them, it came to pass that upon the first proclamation whole multitudes willingly received into their souls the worship of the Creator of all things."

The Weyl'sche Kirchenbote.

In the last number of this paper we find an editorial notice which again characterizes the same so excellently that we cannot forbear to communicate the notice to our readers. We must indeed beg our dear readers' pardon if we wound their Christian sense of shame by this communication; but let it be considered that the question here is to warn against a disgraceful sheet which dares to write the name "Lutheran" upon its harlot's forehead (Jer. 3:3, 4). The notice is as follows:

"Something sweet for Christmas. — Our friends in New York, when they buy their confectionery for Christmas, will do well to call on Mr. A. G. Ludwig, since he is a thoroughly educated confectioner, and especially in sugar figures and the like surpasses everything we have ever seen. To give the matter still further luster, we would remark, especially for the sake of the Ladies, that Mr. L. is a blooming bachelor and a tall and stately Chief Agent of the 'Kirchenbote' in New York."

The dear reader sees from this once more that the Weyl'sche Kirchenbote bears its name from Luther, as the Deist from Deus (God), who is so called for this reason, because he believes in no providence of God, or as Scipio the African from Africa, because this Scipio had fought against the Africans, only with the difference that Mr. Weyl has never yet, like Scipio, won a victory against the Lutheran Carthage, but in his struggle has only befouled himself with his own filth.

(Communicated.)

What Kind of Sponsors One Should Choose at the Baptism.

One must often have the sad experience that in the choice of sponsors so very little regard is paid to whether they are pious, believing, and godfearing. For this purpose one often takes quite unbelieving, worldly-minded people, who do not know at all what a great work holy baptism is, and still less consider what a holy and weighty duty they take upon themselves by the sponsorship. Let one therefore read and ponder the following words of our blessed Luther:

"At baptism the divine Majesty is present, and does therein his highest work, in that he gives himself to us, and makes us wholly new-born and blessed. It is also no jest to act against the devil, and to stand by the poor little child with whole heart and strong faith, to pray most devoutly that God may not only help it from the devil's power, but also strengthen it, that it may stand valiantly against him in life and in death. And I fear that people turn out so ill after baptism because one has dealt so coldly and carelessly with them, and has prayed for them so entirely without earnestness at baptism. Wherefore it is also meet and right that one should not let drunken and coarse priests baptize, nor take coarse people as sponsors, but fine, decent, pious, earnest priests and sponsors, of whom one may be assured that they handle the matter with earnestness and right faith."

Notice.

I hereby communicate that, in respect of the election to the professorship at our theological College, two letters from Dr. Sihler, both written already at an early date, have come in, in which he votes for Rev. Walther as first professor. Irregular postal connection is the cause that they have reached me only so late. — Accordingly the election of our Electoral College has fallen unanimously upon Rev. Walther.

H. Fick,
at present Secretary of the Electoral College.

Received
for the Synodical Mission Fund:
$9.05 collection, gathered at a wedding. $1.00 from Mr. Benj. Hofmann. $1.00 from Mr. Gottl. Schuricht. 65 cts. from Rev. P. Schulze at Springfield, O.

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