# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 04 16_S136
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you, is it possible that your memory is so weak? — Did I not speak of your hypocrisy, falsehood, contempt and disdain of the brethren and the synod? Did you not answer thereto: I ought to have stated everything? Did I not say: I would let you be what you are, and would find no pleasure in communicating this publicly, etc.? Yes, you said, then I ought only not to have spared Kunz, etc. But I will be brief, for I see that you show public repentance over one point, which is very welcome to me; so then, in the name of JEsus, if you stand in true faith, I will not withhold the public absolution: In the name of God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. J. F. Isensee.

Pennsylvania Correspondence.

We cannot refrain from communicating to our dear readers a private report which we received a short time ago from Pennsylvania from a brother in office who became known to us only through this written communication. He writes, namely, among other things the following:

"The 'Lutheraner,' with its purely orthodox confessional expressions of the true and right-believing Evangelical Lutheran Church, strikes the New-Measure men in this region (the adherents of the anti-Lutheran Pittsburg Synod) mightily on the head, in true 'old-Lutheran' style, so that the church feud between the Ohio Synod and the Pittsburg Synod, which has already existed for some time and has risen to the highest pitch even among native-born American-German farmers, becomes the longer the more decided; and it is to be hoped that in West Pennsylvania, after a long night, the blessed dawn of the pure truth will at last arise in the Lutheran church-heaven, to the honor of God and to the salvation of immortal souls, who also are redeemed with God's blood and born again through holy baptism of water and the Spirit. May the 'Lutheraner' deal the New-Measure men one death-blow after another and not grow weaker in its polemics, but ever more confidently defend the truth and purity of doctrine and expose the error and deceit of the devil; then there is no doubt that by the blessing of God a rich harvest will follow a good sowing, so that also in †† County, where the New-Measure men have already taken possession of most of the church buildings, the kingdom of Satan may be shattered and the pure Lutheran flag may wave over its ruins."

The Messenger of Peace.

An Old Fable with a New Moral.

An old rooster was keeping watch upon a barn;
There comes a fox with swift stride,
And cries: O crow, friend, now that I make thee glad;
I bring good tidings with me.
The beasts' war is at an end, men are weary of discord,
In our realm there is quiet and peace.
I myself bring it to thee from all the foxes,
O friend, come down soon, that I may embrace thee. . .
Why dost thou peer about so? — "Greif, Halt, and Bellart are coming,
The dogs which thou knowest," replies the old rooster;
And, as the fox runs off: "What," says he, "ails thee?"
Nothing, brother, says the fox; the strife is ended:
Only, I doubt still whether they have yet heard of it.

Moral:

Trust not, friend, the peace which foxes proclaim to thee,
They cry: Peace! only for their belly.
What they promise is not to be found down here;
So fight on, that is the Christian's office and custom.

Luther, the German prophet, says here a great word, the sum of all his other words of combat and testimony concerning the most holy Sacrament: "The pope," he says (Table-Talk; Works, XXII, 998), "has indeed the thing, namely the oral Word of God, baptism, the Supper and absolution; but the use he has not. Again, the enthusiasts, who cannot bear that God is revealed in the flesh, for they will have only a spiritual God, boast much of usefulness and use, whereas use without the thing is a mere fiction." — Rudelbach, Kirchenspiegel, p. 532.

The German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States

will hold its sessions this year at St. Louis, Mo., from the 29th of May, being the second Wednesday after Pentecost, to the 8th of June inclusive. — The brethren who arrive are requested to betake themselves to the dwelling of Pastor F. Bünger, or if necessary to inquire for it of Mr. Hermann Bünger at his apothecary shop, Franklin Avenue, between 8th and 9th Streets.

F. W. Husmann,
for the time Secretary of the Synod.

Letter-Box.

To Rev. P. St. in H., Ind. — The contribution of A. Schaper is acknowledged in No. 15 for the 6th volume. The missing copies of Nos. 13 and 14, — which must have been lost in the mail — shall be sent after you with No. 17.

Changed Address:

Rev'd Brandt,
Lanesville, Harrison Co., Ind.

Received

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

From members of the branch congregation of Rev. Pastor Johannes in Jefferson Co., Mo., namely: From Heinr. A. Gerken $2.00, from Joh. F. Dittmers $2.00, from Christian Gerken $1.00, from Joh. H. Gronhelt $1.00, from Joh. Wübbels 50 cts., from Friedrich Springmeier $1.00, from Christoph Hesse $1.50, from Christian Hesse 50 cts., from Heinrich Hesse 50 cts. Total $10.00.
From the Cross Congregation in St. Clair Co., Ill., $3.00.
From the three Lutheran congregations of Rev. Pastor A. F. Knape in Pleasant Township, Henry and Defiance Co., O., $3.00.
From the following members of the Lutheran congregation of Rev. Pastor Vogelbach in Pittsburg, Pa., namely: Balthas. Succop $5.00, Höschle 20 cts., Pulhofer 10 cts., Ph. Magnus 25 cts., H. Nierste 50 cts., Hartmann 25 cts., J. Keil $1.00, A. Schmidt 25 cts., Deaconess Elisabeth $1.00, J. Zellhofer $1.00, H. Weith 50 cts. Total $10.05.
From the congregations of Rev. Pastor Biltz in Cape Girardeau Co., Mo., $3.00.
From the Ev. Lutheran St. Peter's Congregation in Huntington, Ind., $2.86.
From the Ev. Lutheran St. John's Congregation in Whitley Co., Ind., $1.64.
From Rev. Pastor A. D. Stecher in Huntington, Ind., $2.50.

Received

for the Synodical Mission Fund:

$1.00 from F. B. through Rev. Pastor Brohm.
$14.30 from members of congregations in St. Louis.
$2.15 from the boys of the school in the local Immanuel Church.
$3.90 from the girls of the school in the local Trinity Church.

Paid.

For the 5th volume: Messrs. Heinr. Helferich, Leonard Kilian.
For the 6th volume: Messrs. Gerh. Heinr. Brockschmidt, Jr. (2nd half), Pastor Brandt, Pastor Brohm, Conr. Guntrum, Heinrich Helferich, Nicolaus Helferich, Pastor Johannes, Körner, Pastor Lochner, Heinr. Usinger, Pastor Wunder, Ant. Wischmeier.
For volumes 5-7: Rev. Pastor Wagenhals.

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

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 Ev. Lutheran religion, left her fatherland and all her goods and possessions with six mostly uneducated children ... 0.05
The dozen 50 cts. 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 cts. 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, 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 pressed leather ... 1.25
Conversations between Two Lutherans concerning Methodism, (in pamphlet form) 2 copies ... 0.05
Dr. M. Luther's Tractate 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 für ev.-luth. Gemeinden, published by the local Ev. Luth. Congregation U. A. C., bound, per copy ... 0.75
1 dozen $8.00 } for cash payment.
100 copies $62.50 }
A B C Book, New York edition, per copy ... 0.10
By the dozen ... 1.00
The Pastoral Letter of Rev. Pastor Grabau at Buffalo (more fully noticed 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, singly ... 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 zum kleinen Catechismus Lutheri. Compiled by commission of the Synod of Missouri, etc., by Pastor Fr. Wyneken, per copy ... 0.20
By the dozen ... 2.25

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Publisher of the Anzeiger des Westens.