# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 01 22_S87
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cents, payable in advance without exception. Orders are to be made in post-paid letters under the address: Friedrich Schmidt, Washington, D. C.

Entry of Methodism into Germany.

From the last two numbers of the Apologete we perceive that the Methodist church here has at length carried into execution the plan long since formed, of transplanting itself also to Germany and of directing from there the stream of German immigration into its own territory. For the Methodist elder sent out by it, Mr. Jakoby, has already arrived in Bremen and has there begun his missionary activity with great zeal, directing his chief attention to Bremerhaven. He reports in his first letter that he has already begun to have the Methodist tracts which circulate here printed there, and that he intends to compose as soon as possible a special tract for emigrants. He desires to receive the addresses of Christian (Methodist) private boarding-houses in the most important cities here, in order to be able to recommend them to the emigrants already at their departure. According to a second letter Mr. Jakoby already holds regular divine service every Sunday and finds himself compelled to ask for an assistant. He also intends from Easter of this year to publish a paper in Bremen, for which he begs the support of his fellow believers here. Whoever sends him $1.50 from here, for him he will send a copy, post-paid, to the address in Germany which is given him. Mr. Jakoby writes: "Notwithstanding all the writings which have been hurled against us from America, true Christians acknowledge us as brethren and fellow laborers in the vineyard." Those who do not do this are therefore not "true Christians" to the dear gentleman. He adds: "After I had spent a few hours with a strict Lutheran superintendent, and had shown him what by the grace of God had been wrought thus far by the Methodist church among the Germans, he left me with approximately (!) the following words: Certainly I wish that all who are born in the Lutheran church might be kept therein. But if it lacks laborers to lead them to salvation, then I wish that you would make them all true Methodists." It is a pity that Mr. J. did not honestly name this "strict Lutheran" outright by his name. Either he was not what Mr. J. declares him to be, or Mr. J. has kept back from him the real nature of Methodism just as here against us, when he sought entrance here some eight years ago.

The Ev. Lutheran Tennessee Synod.

This body held its last year's sessions in Beck's Church, Davidson County, North Carolina, from the 20th to the 25th of October. The report of the proceedings of this Synod lies before us. As much that is gratifying as we had hoped to be able to report to our readers from the results of this assembly, since our Synod had chosen our dear Vice-President as its delegate to it, so little are we able to communicate just this time. Dr. Sihler, as is known, was unable to fulfil the commission received, in consequence of the death of our blessed Wolter, and the transactions carried on by the Synod relate almost exclusively to purely business matters. Distressing is the notice that a certain Pastor George Easterly has separated from the Synod since its last sessions and formed a body under the name: "The Reorganized Ev.-Luth. Tennessee Synod," that is, "the restored Ev. Lutheran Tennessee Synod," which now accuses the old Synod of having violated the constitution "in its opinion," without, however, clearly substantiating this accusation. It is gratifying that the Salem congregation in Locke County, Tennessee, admonishes the Synod to be cautious in the ordination of young men and to grant it only to men who prove themselves upright in their walk and well grounded in doctrine. Another congregation (St. Jacob's, Rockingham, Virginia) reports that the rumor of innovations arising in some church customs has come to its ears, and gives the Synod the counsel to employ all suitable means that the good old customs of our Church may be preserved. May God give us many such congregations, which watch over their Synod with sharp eyes, that nothing unbiblical and unchurchly be sanctioned by it either in doctrine or in practice.

The next sessions of the Synod are to be held in the Solomon's (Cove Creek) Church, Green County, Tennessee, about ten miles southwest of Greenville, beginning with the third Sunday in September 1850. Until then Rev. J. R. Moser (Flint Rock, N. C.) is Secretary of the Synod.

"The Evangelical Review."

The third quarterly number of the first volume of this periodical has just appeared. The contents are as follows: 1. Meurer's Life of Luther by Prof. Schmidt of Columbia College, N. Y. 2. The Nature and Extent of our Knowledge of the Deity, translated by Rev. Harkey. 3. Consistency of Geology and Revelation, by Prof. Jacobs of Pennsylvania College. 4. Journal of a Voyage by Dr. Muehlenberg, translated from an unpublished German manuscript by Prof. Richards of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. 5. The Means employed by God for man's Recovery by Prof. Miller of Hartwick Sem., N. Y. 6. Stier's Commentaries on James and Ephes. 7. Harn of Feet-washing. 8. A hymn from the German by Dr. Mills of Auburn, N. Y. ("Ich habe nun den Grund gefunden" etc.) 9. Literary Intelligence, a. Hengstenberg's Comm. on the Apoc. b. Symb. Books ed. of Mueller. c. Tischendorf's Ed. of the Greek Test. d. Theol. Stud. u. Krit. e. Rudelbach's etc. Zeitschrift. f. Foreign Theol. Library. 10. Notices of 13 New Publications.

"Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know." 1 Cor. 8, 1. 2.

On this saying the old church teacher Bernhardus makes the following beautiful remark:

Thou seest that the apostle does not praise those who know much, if they do not know the manner in which they ought to know; thou seest that he places the fruit and the benefit of knowledge in the manner of knowing. What else, then, does he wish to say but that thou shouldst know in what order, with what diligence and to what end one must know all things? In what order, that thou knowest first of all what is most necessary for the attainment of salvation; with what diligence, that thou endeavorest most zealously to know that which moves most strongly to the love of God and of the neighbor; to what end, that thou desirest to know nothing for vain honor and for thine own glory, but all things for thine own and others' salvation.

What according to God's will should remain hidden, to wish to search that out is wrong; but what He has revealed, that one ought also not to reject, lest we be found presumptuous in the one, and damnably ungrateful in the other.

Ambrosius.

He who believes another's reason more than his own ceases to be a man, and holds the first rank among the servum pecus (servile cattle) of imitators.

Hamann.

The German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Indianapolis.

The proceedings of this Synod, during its sessions from the 27th of September to the 2nd of October of last year, have come to us in print. In communicating some things from them to the dear readers of the "Lutheraner," we hope to give them pleasure. We have never given up the hope that this Synod, having once come out of the magic circle of the so-called American Lutheran General Synod Church and become aware of its apostasy, will not be able to stop halfway. By the contents of the proceedings before us we have been strengthened in this hope.

The Synod consists of 19 congregations, with 12 pastors, namely: J. F. Isensee (President),