# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1855_S78
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78 Sample and Prospectus, etc.

so that it may find quite wide circulation and that its purchase may also be possible for the many faithful and therefore poor bush preachers in this country, we not only gladly renounce any compensation for our modest efforts, but also intend to adopt a method of publication that will make its purchase easy even for the poorest. Accordingly, the work is to be published by subscription at printing cost in installments issued from time to time, each consisting of 32 octavo pages and containing either one longer pericope or two shorter ones. The esteemed brethren who intend to subscribe are hereby kindly requested to send their names as soon as possible, in postage-paid letters, to the writer of this notice at the address:

Rev. Prof. A. Craemer
Care of Rev. Dr. W. Sihler
Fort-Wayne, Ia.

If the undertaking meets with the desired reception and necessary support, publication will continue in series of 10 installments each until the entire cycle of the customary Sunday and festival Gospel readings has been covered. The price of such a series of 10 installments will be one dollar.

But may the Lord, the faithful God, who still acknowledges as His own His dear Church of the pure Word and unadulterated Sacrament, and who even in these last sorrowful times still everywhere places the lampstand of His gracious Gospel upon the altar, in order to rescue even the last of His elect like brands from the fire that has already been kindled—may He bless the work and grant it joyful progress and success, for the benefit of His Church and to the glory of His holy name, for the sake of His merciful love. Amen.

Aug. Crämer.

The Pericope for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity
Matthew 7:15–23 (cf. Luke 6:43–46)
Harmony of the Gospels, Chap. 41

Those who value peace take great offense at the fact that within the multitude called the Church there is so much strife and discord among teachers and learners; the adversaries are strengthened in their ungodliness, the weak are troubled, and the godly are tormented and assailed. Some are thereby deterred from accepting the doctrine; some reject it altogether, or at least accept it only hesitantly. In short, this sorrowful state of the Church is filled with many and various offenses. But Christ foretells it: “False prophets will come to you.” Thus, wherever believers and children of God are found here in this world, false prophets are also found. And John 10:12 teaches that wherever there is a sheepfold, the wolf also prowls about; wherever there is a house of God, thieves creep around, and they are not idle, but rather