# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 08 06_S200 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 200 Return Again! To our brethren whom "the evil foe" draws away from the Ev. Luth. faith, from the Ev. Luth. church and mission. Mel. In allen meinen Thaten. O return, return again, Beloved, dear brethren, Return to the mother! Why would you forsake her And wander strange highways? Why would you flee the high happiness?! Is she not the One, The Holy, the Pure, Whom the Lord has chosen?! Whom He would adorn With rich, golden jewels, Who lacks not a single good?!... His Word in everlasting clearness, The whole full truth, He has entrusted to her; The highest gift of love, The holy sacraments, The faithful bride administers pure! She believes and confesses; What burns in her heart, That her chaste mouth speaks. She makes known with childlike joy To Christians, Jews, Gentiles The whole, full truth! And we, who were born anew Through her ministry, chosen For blessed rest in heaven, We, whom she nourishes and gives to drink, Endows with full salvation, We turn our backs upon her?! Ah, because she is so full of afflictions, So wretchedly beaten down, Torn and robbed: Therefore she is so despised, So utterly counted as nothing, Therefore men shake the head before her!! Men would see with their eyes Figures that puff themselves up In outward splendor, Yet her adornment is inward, Outwardly she constantly wears, Like her Lord, the crown of thorns! O return, return again, Erring, dear brethren, Return to the mother! Recognize her beauty, Let her earnest tones Call you to perfect happiness! You are not content Until you have decided wholly For God's sanctuary, For His pure doctrine, For His full honor, For His whole glory! O come as poor sinners, As penitent children, To the faithful mother! She will gladly forgive us: Let us only live for her — She remembers our guilt no more! F. Weyermüller. (Submitted.) From the Song of Songs. 2. I am a rose of Sharon, I am a flower in the valley. How still it is in Sharon! So still in the lonely valley! My heart weeps among the thorns. The dew bedews my head. — What is that gleaming yonder? — Who has stolen my veil! Go gently, dear maiden, The way is narrow and steep. The ray upon thy brow, It is from Zion's salvation! The glow upon thy cheeks Is eternal morning light. Now one sees thy clasps, And — ah! thy countenance! G. Schaller. Notice. Since the mass of instruction in Concordia College near St. Louis is too great for the two hitherto teachers, Professor Walther and Rector Gönner, to undertake it alone, the founding of a third teaching position, namely a professorship of philosophy, has become urgently necessary. The same has now also been resolved, in the hope that the faithful God will bestow with a gentle hand the requisite means. And indeed the Electoral College of our Synod has decided by vote to propose to this office, as candidate, Pastor Biewend at Fort Wayne. But because Pastor Biewend has hitherto administered the second teaching position at the seminary at Fort Wayne on an interim basis, this office must at the same time be filled again. The Electoral College has now resolved to put forward Pastor Crämer as candidate for the professorship at the seminary at Fort Wayne. All congregations of our Synod which wish to make use of their right (see the Second Synodical Report, page 16) to nominate other persons as candidates for these teaching offices or to protest against the nominated candidates, are hereby requested to let their submissions in this matter reach me, under the address of "Herr A. B. Tschirpe, St. Louis," by the 2nd of October of this year. Later submissions will not be considered. Hermann Fick, present Secr. of the Electoral Coll. 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