# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 06 11_S168 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 168 church dedication, P. Bünger preached in the forenoon on Luke 12:32, and set forth: “Even to a little congregation, if it is a congregation of JEsus Christ, belong the most glorious and most comforting assurances and promises of the LORD.” Professor Walther delivered the confessional address. In the afternoon P. Fick delivered his inaugural sermon on Rom. 15:29, 30, and showed: 1. With what he comes; and 2. For what he prays. Both times the church was overfilled, so that several had to listen from outside, in the fine weather with which the day of dedication was favored. Hitherto the service has been well attended every Sunday. About thirty members have joined the congregation since. The school is flourishing. In a word, one sees that the LORD will build His Zion here. And He will do it. His name be praised! — The Indulgence in Hesse. About the year 1524 there lived in Hatzfeld a tailor who was a wild, snappish, malicious man. His father confessor had refused him absolution because he would not confess properly and perform the churchly penances; whereupon the wicked man tried to extort it from the confessor by defiance, and assailed him again and again with insolent and coarse words. The clergyman not only did not let himself be disconcerted, but laid his sins and vices before him all the more roughly and emphatically. Then the tailor's wrath rose and became a bloody deed; he struck the pastor dead. Naturally he was at once put under the ban and also pursued by the secular justice, so that he had to become a fugitive from the land, unless he wished to die a terrible death under the hangman's hands. But he knew how to help himself: he went to Rome, lied there that he had slain two men, begged an indulgence, and, since he paid much money, obtained it without trouble for the two alleged murders. Who in Rome could know, or concern himself, how the matter really stood? Now he had a safe-conduct given him, and came back, armed with his two letters of indulgence, in good spirits to his home. No one dared to attack him. But that was not yet enough: the villain boasted that he had yet another letter of indulgence in store, and so he might and would also still kill one more, and indeed first of all again a priest, as soon as anyone but looked at him askance or said an uneven word to him. And so not only all the neighbors, but especially all the defenseless and helpless village priests about Biedenkap and Battenberg had to be in constant fear of this raging man, and besides buy his favor with money and good words. The tailor of Hatzfeld became the terror of the whole region. The fear lasted several years, until the Reformation came in Hesse, which was then also accepted, one may imagine how eagerly, by clergy and laity of that region. Now the letters of indulgence were worth nothing more, and the villain was no longer sure of his life; so he made off a second time, and nothing more has been heard of him since. So it looked in those days. Hold Steadfast to the Doctrine! The sharper the devil is against the doctrine, the firmer we should stand and hold steadfastly to the doctrine. When the doctrine is confessed by us with earnestness and constancy, we can do our adversaries no greater hurt. For this they would gladly hear from us: O there I have done him too much. But not so; nay, not a hair's breadth yielded nor stepped back, be you ever so weak. For Christ gives us all here (John 18:19-24) an example, in that in His weakness He answered the high priest concerning His doctrine with full earnestness and cheerful constancy, that we should hold fast to the Word which we have once accepted and taught, however weak and frail we also are. Luther. The Inexhaustible Riches of God's Word. Let us hold the Word in honor. I for my part have for some years now read through the Bible twice every year; and if it were a great mighty tree, and all the words were little branches and twigs, I have yet knocked at all the little branches and twigs, and desired to know what was in them and what they could do, and have always knocked down a couple of apples or little pears besides. Luther. Changed Address: Rev. J. Trautmann, Adrian, Lenawee Co., Mich. Received for the building of the German Evangelical Lutheran College in St. Louis: From the Lutheran St. John's Congregation U. A. Conf. in Minden, Ill., through Hrn. Past. Scholz, namely: From Herr Friedr. Grefe $0.30 „ Friedr. Prasuhn 1.00 „ Wilh. Brink 0.50 „ Heinr. Engelage 0.25 „ Friedr. Aldag 0.50 „ Ernst Grefe 0.25 „ Christ. Meier 0.25 „ Past. W. Scholz 2.00 „ W. Hofmann 1.00 „ Herm. Kollmeier 0.50 „ A. Wilh. Freye 1.00 „ Heinr. Aehrt 0.50 „ Friedr. Waker 0.25 „ Wilh. Kollmeyer 0.50 „ Heinr. Kasten 0.25 „ Friedr. Ellerbusch 0.50 „ Friedr. 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