# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 05 28_S160
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Yet I shall not despair for ever:
CHRIST has accomplished salvation for me,
And has committed the keys of heaven
To His Church, and with them the power:
"Whosesoever sins ye remit,
Their burden of sin is forgiven."

Blessed am I! Christ has absolved me
Of all guilt through His servant's mouth;
God blots out all that I ever transgressed,
Takes me again into the covenant of grace:
For absolution is
God's Word and voice from the throne of heaven.

Therefore I will receive it in faith,
Just as if JESUS Himself spoke it to me,
And not be ashamed of it before men.
Praise and thanks be to Thee, JESUS, for it,
That Thou hast imparted forgiveness to me
And healed my heart of fear and anguish.

Heaven is now opened to me:
GOD my Father loves me as His child,
Angels greet me as a fellow-heir
Of all the saints who are in heaven.
Rejoice, earth and heaven! be glad:
GOD has translated me into the kingdom of heaven.
Hermann Fick.

Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist.

M. Johann Martin Rebstock, who died in the year 1728 as pastor at Zell under Achilberg, once experienced a quite special power of this hymn in body and soul. For when in the year 1668 he was studying at Strassburg amid much want and poverty, where he had to earn his livelihood laboriously by giving lessons, because his father had given him only a single ducat to take with him, a violent spotted fever fell upon him. Out of pity he was permitted to occupy a little chamber in a house of the nobility, but these people so feared the contagion that they left him lying quite alone in his severe sickness, and would not even ask some friends outside the house for help and nursing for him. When he now saw himself thus forsaken by all men, he turned with fervent prayer to the Lord, and found in Him his confidence, his comfort, his physician. During these exercises of faith he once felt himself urged to rise and to pray. He gathered up all his remaining strength and went to the clavier standing near, on which he then, with trembling hands and lips, played and sang this hymn. Thereupon an extraordinary joyfulness seized him all at once, the sickness departed, the strength of his body grew perceptibly, and he recovered, to the wonder of those who were in the house, that very same day. In the evening he was already able to go out and tell his acquaintances his distress and God's wonderful help himself. Two years afterwards he became pastor at Zaberfeld, then at Ennabeuern on the Swabian Alb, thereupon at Mönsheim, and finally in the year 1705 at Zell.

The Self-Made Faith.

A fictitious faith is that which hears of God, of Christ, of all the mysteries of His incarnation and redemption, grasps the same as it has heard it, also knows how to speak of it in the very finest way; but is nevertheless no more than a vain delusion, and becomes no more of it than an unprofitable hearsay, of which the heart retains no more than a sound or an echo of the Gospel; prattles much of it; and yet is nevertheless no faith: for it neither renews nor transforms the heart, makes no new man, but leaves him as it found him, in his old skin, that is, in his former opinion and conduct. Such a faith is exceedingly a harmful, wicked thing, and it were better that one had it not at all. And certainly a heathen philosopher, who according to common reason teaches of worldly virtues, is far better than a hypocrite who has such a faith. Luther on Gal. 3:11.

A Testimony of Schiller against Mockery of Religion.

Also the great fashion now is to let one's wit play at the expense of religion, so that one hardly passes any longer for a genius (for a man of intellect) unless one lets one's ungodly satyr (mockery) romp about upon its holiest truths. The noble simplicity of Scripture must be maltreated and distorted into the ridiculous by idle heads in everyday assemblies (fashionable societies); for what is so holy and serious that, if one twists it falsely, it cannot be laughed at?

What?

God gives it;
Christ earns it;
The Spirit rules it;
The Word proclaims it;
Faith grasps it;
The Sacraments seal it;
The works bear witness to it;
The Cross tries it;
The Last Day discloses it.
(Torgau Catechism.)

☞ The solemn dedication of the college building will, God willing, take place on the next eleventh of June. The dear brethren from the neighborhood are kindly invited to it.

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

From Mr. Georg Eckert $8.00.
From Mr. Gerhard Friedrich Borrenpohl $2.00.
From Messrs. Brothers Biermann, Jr., $5.00.
(The foregoing contributions sent in through Mr. Past. Fürbringer.)
From Mr. Peter Schmelz in Caroline, Seneca Co., O., $4.00.
From Dr. Dacheux in St. Louis $1.00.
From the congregation in Altenburg, Perry Co., Mo., $7.45.
From an unnamed person there $1.00.
E. Roschke, Treasurer.

Received
for the Synodical Mission Treasury:

From members of the Lutheran congregation in St. Louis $4.25.
From a private fund through Mad. R. $1.25.
From the congregation of Mr. Past. Gretz in Caroline, Seneca Co., Ohio, $2.80.
From his St. John's Congregation in New Washington, Crawford Co., O., "gathered on the happy day of confirmation, that the poor heathen and their children also may be fed and refreshed with the sweet manna of the Gospel, as we and our children," $7.20.
"May very many congregations remember the poor heathen on the day of confirmation, not only with words, but also with works."
From the boys of the school in the local Trinity Church $7.25.
From Mr. Burkhardt in Altenburg 50 cts.
From Mr. Lütje Grother there 50 cts.
From H. H. there 50 cts.

Paid.

For the 5th year: Pastor Rally.
For the 6th year: Messrs. Gottfr. Burkhardt, G. W. Dörner, Gottlieb Gehring (1st half), Carl Höhne (2nd half), Dietr. Hellwege, Hinkelmann, Gottfr. Jahn, F. Krüger, Past. Löber, Carl Müller, Gottfr. Nönnig, Past. Jos. Ritter, Roth, Past. Rally, Heinr. Schmidt, Johann Schmidt, Past. Strasen, Conrad Theis, Fr. Winter.
The 2nd half of the 6th and the 1st half of the 7th year: Messrs. Martin Hoch and Christ. Mosebach.

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

Dr. Martin Luthers kleiner Katechismus, unaltered reprint. $0.10
The dozen $1.00. One hundred copies $7.00.
Merkwürdiger Brief einer Dame, welche im Jahre 1703 der ev.-lutherischen Religion halber mit sechs meist unerzogenen Kindern ihr Vaterland und all' ihr Hab und Gut verlassen hat... 0.05
The dozen 50 cts. 25 copies $1.00.
Die Verfassung der deutschen ev.-luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. Staaten nebst einer Einleitung und erläuternden Bemerkungen. 0.05
The dozen 50 cts. 25 copies $1.00.
Erster Synodalbericht der deutschen ev.-luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. Staaten v. J. 1847. 0.10
Zweiter Synodalbericht derselben Synode v. J. 1848. 0.10
Dritter Jahrgang des Lutheraner v. 1846-1847. No. 8-26. 0.50
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)
Christliches Concordienbuch, d. i. Symbol. Bücher der ev.-luth. Kirche, New Yorker Ausgabe, bound in embossed leather. 1.25
Gespräche zwischen zwei Lutheranern über den Methodismus, (in pamphlet form) 2 copies. 0.05
Dr. M. Luthers Tractat von der wahren Kirche (printed separately from No. 9 of the Lutheraner), 2 copies. 0.05
Dr. Luthers Hauspostille, oder Predigten über die Evangelien auf die Sonn- und Festtage des ganzen Jahres, New Yorker Ausgabe, 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, 100 copies $62.50, for cash payment.
A B C Buch, New Yorker Ausgabe, per copy. 0.10
By the dozen. 1.00
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn Pastors Grabau zu Buffalo (reviewed more fully in No. 17 of the Lutheraner, vol. 5). 0.25
Joh. Hübners Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente. Unaltered reprint, New Yorker Ausgabe, singly 0.25
By the dozen. 2.50
Dr. Martin Luthers Auslegung des 90. Psalms, 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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Chestnut Street, between Main & Second, No. 16.