# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 04 02_S128
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chentage had banded together and wanted to contend for their so-called right to Lutheran confession and constitution within the established church. Göschel, the former Consistorial President at Magdeburg, presided over them. These people are confused, and will certainly, as many of them as are honest, all go over to the separated Lutherans, who are in a very flourishing condition, at least as regards increase, so far as I am rightly informed. Recently a whole congregation has gone over to them at Reinswalde near Sorau in Lower Lusatia; but the government has demanded that they give up church and parsonage property as the property of the royal patron! Unfortunately Gerlach of Berlin, who died two months ago, let himself be used for a mission against them.

To return to Wittenberg, there stood forth, to my refreshment above all, beside so much that was repulsive, old Heubner, a venerable old man who stands with only one foot still upon the earth. "What shall we say," he spoke in some such words, "what shall we say, when we stand before the judgment seat of JESUS, life is but a shadow, when He then asks us how we have managed His goods? we can not and dare not enter upon any Union. And if you (so he turned to the assembly), if you wish to unite here in Wittenberg, then go away from here, this place and its memories, the graves at which we stand, are too holy for this place to be troubled with such things." The fine Sack stepped up to him: he would like to remind him that even if the most venerable member of the whole assembly had so expressed himself, that he presented the Union as eo ipso without confession, this would yet be against the statutes and the spirit of the Wittenberg Church League, which, as is well known, regarded the united as well as the Lutheran and Reformed tendency as having equal rights within this League. With that he certainly pronounced judgment upon the whole League.

Harleß comes to Dresden as Chief Court Preacher and Consistorial President in Ammon's place.

That Satan does not sleep, he knows well how to make known. According to public papers, in a free congregation at Halberstadt the theme of the sermon on the first Christmas day ran: "The Non-existence and Nothingness of God"; on the second Christmas day: "The Sinfulness of Christ and the Lies of the So-called Holy Scripture." —

Dost thou remember the little W. St., my former pupil? On the first of November 1849 he departed. The blessed boy had a right beautiful end, he foresaw his death when the others had not yet thought of it, and when he had spoken of the expectation of death, he laid himself on his side with the words:

"Sweetly blessed, soft and still,
As if from a gentle sound,
I sleep, because it is God's will:
My comfort is God's Son."

Yes, may He grant us a sweetly soft and blessed end, and here below, as long as we sojourn here, faithfulness, faithfulness unto death! Amen.

From my heart, thine
O. M.
N., the 15th of January 1850.

"The Busy Martha."

Under this title the so-called Albrechtsleute, or United Brethren in Christ, also called the Evangelical Association (a kind of Methodists), publish a paper. What kind of paper it is, one may already see sufficiently from the fact that in one of the latest numbers, in the midst of reports of revivals, the following good heathen little sentence is found as filling: Strive at all times to do right, and thou wilt be able to stand before God and men." This little saying, however, does not stand there isolated; similar thoroughly rationalistic sayings run on and on through testimonies of the power of the blood of Christ, and make the paper so motley that one must be astonished. It is similar in almost all American periodicals; however great a horror of German rationalism they profess to have, they are themselves just as bad, without noticing it, besmeared with it.

The Motherly Love of the Roman Catholic Church.

When at the beginning of the thirteenth century more and more parties arose in southern France and grew in power and in the number of their members, which renounced the Roman Catholic Church and bore witness against the abominations committed by its priesthood, the popes sent legates with the most extensive powers for the suppression of these "sects" and for the bringing back of these children fallen away from Mother Church. Among others a crusade against these sects of southern France was therefore preached by the Abbot Arnold of Litraux, as papal legate, which lasted twenty years from 1209, and in which with fanatical fury the blood of the guilty and the innocent, men and women, of the aged and of the infant at the breast, was shed under devilish tortures, and the land was turned into a frightful desert. When Bezieres had been stormed, which was inhabited by so-called heretics and Catholics, inquiry was made of the papal legate what was to be done, since one could not well distinguish the heretics and Catholics from one another? Arnold's answer was: "Slay on; the LORD knoweth them that are his."

The Weakness and Strength of the Children of the World.

So does the mad world; if one urges it on to a holy and godly walk, then it is nothing but human weakness; but if one wishes to lead it away from its worldly vanity, then they wish to be strong heroes, who, though they sin on every occasion, yet know well how to guard themselves against sin, and feel no sinful allurements and evil lusts. (A. H. Franke on dancing.)

Correction.

In the receipt list in No. 10 of this paper, among those paying for the 6th volume, Stephan Sauer was by mistake entered instead of J. H. Succop.

Received

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

From the following members of the Lutheran congregation at Elkhorn Prairie, Ill., sent in through Pastor Fürbringer, as:
From Mr. Klaus Heinr. Auf d. Brinke $4.00. From Mr. Dietrich Hedemann $3.00. From Mr. Karl August Hülskötter $4.00. Sum $11.00.
From the widow Mrs. Hellwig in Altenburg 20 Cts. From Pastor G. Döpken in Piqua, Miami Co., O., $2.00. From several members of the St. Peter's Congregation at Verona, Oneida County, N. Y., $5.25. From Rev. Pastor Schröer of the same place $1.75. From several members of the Lutheran congregation at Gorham, Lucas Co., O., $1.00. From several members of the Lutheran congregation in German Township, Lucas Co., Ohio, $1.15. From Rev. Pastor Adam Detzer $4.85. From the following members of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Armstrong Co., Pa., through Pastor Hahn: from Thomas Lehr $3.00, from Maria Anna Ellenberger 50 Cts., from Elisabetha Ellenberger 50 Cts., from Johannes Ellenberger 31½ Cts., from Jakob Ellenberger 25 Cts.

Received

for the Synodical Mission Fund:
$4.75 from Pastor Döpken in Piqua, O. $1.00 from an Anonymous Giver, through Pastor Hölsche. $1.65 from the St. John's Congregation in Minden, Ill. $1.00 from Benj. Hofmann.

Paid.

For the 5th volume. The Messrs. Dietrich Schütte, Friedrich Vollmer, Jakob Müller.
For the 6th volume. The Messrs. Past. Böhm, Georg Greb, Chr. Graß, Jakob Hügly, Jakob Müller, Heinr. Menke, Past. Perlewitz, Oswald Rothe, Friedrich Vollmer.

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