# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 06 25_S176
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trate began to laugh, and said: Son, do you hear what sort of sermon the farm hand preaches? Go quickly, and take a wife. Consider the farm hand, who knows not much, supporting a wife with twenty-one gulden, and you, who have studied many years at the high schools and receive twenty-one thousand gulden annual income, have not yet learned so much as to trust your God that you will be able to support a wife just as well as this peasant fellow?

The trustful, simple confidence of the peasant bridegroom brought it about that the nobleman's son went into himself, gave up his foolish cares, and fulfilled his father's wish. If he kept the "Body and soul God will well keep" always before his eyes, then the blessing will not have failed him.

With the mind of this peasant every household should be begun. He who knows that God will keep body and soul has God always before his eyes and in his heart, and commends to him body and soul, his own and that of his spouse and of the children. Then the soul remains protected from luxury and prodigality, from gluttony and drunkenness, avarice and greed, from strife and quarreling, from adultery and shame. But he who thinks, when it comes to marrying: it will turn out all right — time brings counsel; he who thinks: well then, if it goes not well, we will be divorced, does he too know that God will keep body and soul, and will God keep his body and soul? And he who marries only for the sake of the rich wife, and he who is ashamed to begin small, and cannot have and establish everything from the start great enough, and splendid and stately enough, has he learned to trust his God?

Monkish Respect for God's Word.

The Franciscan monks hear the Gospel read at table sitting, the rule of St. Francis standing, and his testament kneeling.

What does not belong to heaven, no one brings in, though one tear it (even) to pieces; but what is to go in, that must go in, though (even) all devils hang upon it and burst themselves over it. Luther.

Syllable Riddle.

The first syllable.

I am a roadbuilder, such as none in all the world,
Every year I timber bridges, for which no tree is felled.
I am a master of armies; when I command Halt!
Then march, with white flags, the troops into winter quarters.
I am a jailer, whatever stirs, I shut in;
If my fortress falls by storm, free departure is mine.
I am a shipbuilder and have the monopoly
That my cruising fleet shall be manned with bears.
Am I a master of the kitchen, I look distinguished,
And come in many shapes out of the subterranean house.
Yet I have One Master: if his word of command sounds,
All the world rejoices — I weep myself to death!

The two last.

I am a loving mother, who holds all the wide world,
Like a child, nourishing and tending, in cradling arms.
Who is so mightily loved as I am loved!
The little worm in the dust loves me, and the Queen of Sheba.
Who is so mightily hated as I am hated!
The first Hater hates me to this day from the beginning.
Yet that he may not swallow me up, my Prince has stood against him:
He laid hands on Him — that has felled him forever.
Will you be a king? Come here, I am your crown!
Will you be a servant? Come here, I am your wage!
Now I ask: who is so loved as I am loved?
I am the blessed jewel, the inheritance and gain of the pious.

The Whole.

Once more he would venture it, the old evil Foe,
To rob us of the jewel, and has meant it in earnest.
Then he beheld in me the Second, who was to bear witness of the Second,
That the weary, heavy-laden souls might be refreshed by his Word.
Thereupon he bade farewell to the Second in my place,
Yet he has the eternal Second, the Church, his doctrine and Word.

F. B.

To the Members of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States.

Since it may be presumed, with God's help, that by the beginning of autumn the cholera will have disappeared from St. Louis, and since the proposal has been made by several members of our Synod that our synodical sessions this year begin with the first Wednesday in October of this year, this proposal is hereby laid before all the members concerned, and they are hereby requested to send their votes for or against it with all speed to the present Presidium. The result of this vote shall in due time be made known through the "Lutheraner."

C. F. W. Walther,
for the time President.

Correction.

In No. 18 acknowledgment was made of $2.50 for the mission in the name of Pastor Meyer in Benton County. But it should not read "Pastor Meyer," but "Jost Meyer."

Received

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

From the Lutheran congregation of Rev. Perlewitz in the Haßler settlement near Peru, Ill., $8.00.
From Pastor Eirich in Chester, Ill., $1.00.
From Pastor Lehmann in Cape Girardeau, Mo., 75 Cts.
From the second German Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Baltimore, Md. $622.00.

E. Roschke, Treasurer.

Received

for the Synodical Mission Fund:

From the members of the Lutheran congregation U. A. C. in St. Louis $3.35.

Paid.

For the 6th year. The Messrs. Matth. Ambrosius, Heinr. Fritzsche, Pastor Lehmann, Nicol. Morgenthaler, Friedr. Thürwächter, Wustum; the last the 5th and first half of the sixth year. Pastor Wichmann $6.00 for Andr. Dübel, Heinr. Armbrüster, Wilh. Lührmann, Mart. Reichert, Wilh. Schack, Jakob Zahn.

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

Dr. Martin Luthers kleiner Katechismus, unchanged reprint ... $0.10
The dozen $1.00. Hundred copies $7.00.
Merkwürdiger Brief einer Dame, who in the year 1703, for the sake of the Ev. Lutheran religion, with six mostly unreared children, left her fatherland and all her goods and possessions ... 0.05
The dozen 50 Cts. 25 copies $1.00.
Die Verfassung der deutschen ev.-luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio u. a. Staaten, with an introduction and explanatory remarks ... 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, that is, Symbolical Books of the Ev. Luth. Church, New York edition, bound in pressed 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 (separately reprinted from No. 9 of the Lutheraner), 2 copies ... 0.05
Dr. Luthers Hauspostille, or sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and festival days of the whole year, New York edition, bound in calfskin ... 2.00
Kirchengesangbuch für ev.-luth. Gemeinden, published by the local ev.-luth. congregation U. A. C., bound, each ... 0.75
1 dozen $8.00 } for cash payment.
100 copies $62.50 }
A B C Buch, New York edition, each ... 0.10
By the dozen ... 1.00
Der Hirtenbrief des Herrn Pastors Grabau zu Buffalo (more fully announced in No. 17 of the Lutheraner, Vol. 5) ... 0.25
Joh. Hübners Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente. Unchanged reprint, New York edition, 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 at the request of the Synod of Missouri, etc., by Pastor Fr. Wyneken, each ... 0.20
By the dozen ... 2.25

The undersigned, who procures several of the above-named books on his own account, finds himself compelled to make cash payment a condition for future orders, since his small means do not permit him to give credit for a longer time hereafter. Only in the case of the hymnals, if ordered in larger lots, to be regarded as commission articles, may credit of several months be given according to circumstances. Those concerned are kindly requested not to take offense at the sending of their bills.

F. W. Barthel.

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