# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 01 22_S88
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J. F. Meißner, J. W. Wier, Dr. O. Hunger (Secretary), A. Brand, Ch. Buße, A. H. Lüken, J. F. Hartmann, H. S. Lasar, Th. Wichmann, E. Leemhuis, M. During. As the most important of all the proceedings there appear to us those of the 4th and 6th sessions, from whose minutes we extract the following: "A motion had been made and seconded: Henceforth no pastor of our Synod may organize and accept a united or so-called evangelical congregation, nor may any pastor who serves such a one be received into our Synod." Thereupon it was indeed unanimously resolved: "Henceforth no pastor of our Synod may organize a united or so-called evangelical congregation"; but the remaining part of the motion was rejected by a majority of votes. "Pastors F. W. Wier and Dr. O. Hunger, however, could not declare themselves in agreement with this, not only because the prohibition of the organizing of mixed congregations is easily evaded, but because in this way the Synod would still stand essentially upon the Union standpoint and would cease to be a Lutheran one, and declared with regret that they must withdraw from the Synod." So it reads in the report of proceedings of the 4th session; but in that of the 6th: "In regard to the united congregations a new motion was now made, which was unanimously adopted and in consequence of which the final resolution of the Synod of Indianapolis reads as follows: Resolved: Henceforth no pastor of our Synod may organize a united or so-called evangelical congregation. In the acceptance of existing united congregations the Synod obligates the pastor to work toward this, that they be brought to the standpoint of our Lutheran Church. However, a pastor may accept only such congregations as he has reason to hope may be brought to that point under his ministry. — Thereupon the two members of the Synod who had declared their withdrawal took back this declaration."

Although we are now convinced that the dear brethren of the Indianapolis Synod must logically go one step farther as regards the acceptance and serving of congregations, and although we can scarcely comprehend how, with the ecclesiastical tendency of the Synod now manifesting itself, the license system, which abolishes the essence of the divine order of the ministry, has still not been given up by it, yet we will not let our joy be diminished by this at the essential progress of the Synod, to which the resolution here communicated bears witness. We share from the heart the hope which Pastor Dr. Hunger expresses at the close of the synodical report edited by him, that especially two resolutions which the Synod has adopted will be of blessed result. In the first place he writes that "the Synod, by its position toward the pernicious Union that has sprung from the lukewarmness and want of confession of our time, which gives up the fundamental articles of the Christian faith in regard to the holy Sacraments to the caprice of the individual, takes a more decided churchly direction, and that, if all pastors faithfully comply with the resolution of the Synod, our Lutheran congregations will again come to the consciousness that the Lutheran Church is that in which, as such, alone the Word of God is taught purely and the Sacraments are kept pure." In the second place, that "the Synod, if it wins a capable man for its missionary activity, can also exert a blessed influence upon the fellow believers scattered in this State who lack preaching and the Sacraments." For in the 7th session the following resolution was also adopted: "That a missionary be appointed, who shall travel through that part of the State of Indiana which lies south of the National Road, organize congregations in it, visit each of them once every quarter, and administer the holy Sacraments in them."

Finally the Synod has resolved to assemble again, if the LORD will, on the first Wednesday in September 1850 in Cincinnati, in the Evangelical Lutheran church of Pastor Wichmann.

Wholesomeness of the Papacy.

How wholesome the Pope is for Christendom this precious bird has himself impudently enough sung out into all the world. In the so-called canonical, that is, papal, church law it says, namely, among other things in plain words: "If the Pope were so wicked that he led countless men in great crowds to the devil, no one might nevertheless punish him for it." Dist. 40. c. 6. Si papa etc.

Invocation of Saints.

How badly advised the poor Papists are, when they are taught to invoke the saints, is shown among others by Anton Gavin, formerly a lay priest of the Roman Church in Saragossa, who in his book: "Der Dietrich, dessen sich die römische Kirche anstatt der Schlüssel Petri bedient," printed in the year 1728 at Cologne, relates that once a certain Hermannus Ferrariensis was canonized, that is, declared a saint by the Pope; but thirty years afterward it was perceived that this Hermannus had been nothing less than a saint. Pope Boniface VIII had therefore solemnly condemned him, and had him dug up and burned. But how shamefully the poor people in Ferrara saw themselves deceived, who had already revered and invoked this supposed saint for 30 years! How often may the unhappy Catholics worship saints who have long since been sitting in hell and are themselves crying in vain for deliverance!

Received

for the building of the German Evangelical Lutheran College in St. Louis:

From the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Pastor Brauer in Addison, Ill., $10.00.
From the Evang. Lutheran congregation at Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Mich., through Pastor Crämer, $16.38.
From Mr. Trampe, $2.00.
From Mrs. Siedekim, $1.40.
From Pastor Habel and his congregation at Pomeroy, O., $22.00.
From his congregation in Chester Township, $6.00.

E. Roschke, Treasurer.

For the students:

Received from Mr. Patzle in Buffalo, $1.00.

Received

for the Lutheran Trinity congregation in Buffalo toward the liquidation of its church debts:

$2.00 from the congregation of Pastor Scholz in Minden, Washingt. Co., Ill.
$11.50 from the congregation of Pastor Müller in Central Township, Mo.

We thank you heartily. E. M. Bürger.

Received

for the Synodical Mission Fund:

$4.65 from the girls of the local Immanuel School, collected among themselves.
$14.32½ from local members of the congregation.
$4.00 from a local member of the congregation.
$2.90 from the congregation in Neumelle through Pastor Fick.
$4.35 from the congregation at Pleasant Ridge, through Pastor Lochner.
$2.65 from the congregation at Collinsville, through Pastor Lochner.
$10.00 from the congregation in Liverpool, Ohio, for the station Frankenmuth, through Pastor Röbbelen.
$1.00 from Mr. Hermann Möhlenkamp.

Paid.

For the 5th volume: Pastor Hattstädt (4 copies).

For the 6th volume: The gentlemen Pastor Baltzer, Theodor Dresel, Pastor Dumser, Chr. Herling, Dr. A. Koch, Jakob Keller, Sandfort, Leonh. Schnell, Jakob Göglein, Abraham Mees, Wilhelm Scharf.

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

Dr. Martin Luther's Small Catechism, unaltered reprint ... $0.10
The dozen $1.00. One hundred copies $7.00.
Remarkable Letter of a Lady who in the year 1703, for the sake of the Evangelical Lutheran religion, left her fatherland and all her goods and possessions with six mostly uneducated children ... 0.05
The dozen 50 cents. 25 copies $1.00.
The Constitution of the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, together with an introduction and explanatory remarks ... 0.05
The dozen 50 cents. 25 copies $1.00.
First Synodical Report of the German Ev. Luth. 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 of 1846—1847. Nos. 8—26 ... 0.50
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Christliches Concordienbuch, that is, Symbolical Books of the Ev. Luth. 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 Treatise on the True Church (separately reprinted from No. 9 of the Lutheraner), 2 copies ... 0.05
Dr. Luther's Hauspostille, or Sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and Festivals of the whole year, New York edition, bound in calf ... 2.00
Kirchengesangbuch for Ev. Luth. congregations, published by the local Ev. Luth. congregation U. A. C., bound, per copy ... 0.75
1 dozen $8.00, 100 copies $62.50, for cash payment.
A B C Book, New York edition, per copy ... 0.10
By the dozen ... 1.00
The Pastoral Letter of Pastor Grabau of Buffalo (more fully reviewed in No. 17 of the Lutheraner, Vol. 5) ... 0.25
Joh. Hübner's Biblical Histories from the Old and New Testaments. Unaltered reprint, New York edition, single copy ... 0.25
By the dozen ... 2.50
Dr. Martin Luther's Exposition of the 90th Psalm, stitched, uncut ... 0.15
By the dozen ... 1.50
Spruchbuch to Luther's Small Catechism. Compiled by order of the Synod of Missouri, etc., by Pastor Fr. Wyneken, per copy ... 0.20
By the dozen ... 2.25

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