# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1847 04 20_S92
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Indeed, they declared without shame that they intended to remain in the Church only until they had led it entirely over to Rome — a design to which Rome sent its emissaries, Jesuits from Belgium and France, diligently enough. They also tried to hook me by the bait of nationality, which was expressed rather bluntly in my case. With hypocritical sympathy they lamented that so many worthy Germans still clung, in unhappy division and blindness, to the name of the common Luther, upon whom they boldly dared to fasten every kind of infamy. When I put to them the question whether they could indeed believe that, for example, at the Diet of Worms and elsewhere, the Holy Spirit had been with the Romanists against Scripture, and not rather with Luther for Scripture, they answered boldly that the devil had been with Luther, since he had after all fallen away from the true Church. They further supposed that if only the King of Prussia could be brought to convert, the Protestants in Germany would surely soon be exterminated — just as they themselves heartily wished they could drive their heretics and sects into the sea. I hastened to get away from the vicinity of these holy men as quickly as possible, and although at that time still of little understanding, the gracious, merciful God nevertheless let me perceive this: that lying, falsehood, deceit, idolatry, and bloodthirstiness cannot be the means of spreading the kingdom of peace. Finally I had to learn from someone involved that, among the many Belgian Jesuits who come there to display their foreign arts of oratory and seduction in the French churches there, one of them had presented to one of the highest families of the English nobility a brilliant program for the establishment of an educational institute. But when it came to the conclusion of a contract, another program had been substituted, according to which the heads of the family bound themselves to place in the hands of the institute also the unconditional direction of the young men's religious instruction. The fraud was discovered, and the holy father disappeared.

Since then it has often troubled me that the Roman Church so proudly raises up its dark power again, precisely at a time that lies so deeply and sickly prostrate, partly in rationalizing skepticism, partly in sentimental enthusiasm; but we have indeed a sure comfort in the words of the Lord, where he says: heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away — and just as surely, in spite of the devil, the pope, Pusey, and Antichrist, his holy Church shall not pass away either, for where the Word is, there is the Church — but of the Word I have heard nothing among the Puseyites. Therefore we do not grant them that they are the Church, nor are they. —

A. C.

"Wahrheitsfreund" so often cites as "Protestant" witnesses for the papacy — they are not Protestants at all, but disguised Jesuits who, according to their accursed principle, remain even in Protestant congregations and can hold office there, so long as, by means of the most infamous hypocrisy, they thereby promote the "holy" purpose of spreading the papacy. — D. H.

Intended Mission of the Episcopalians among the German Lutherans.

According to a report in this year's March issue of the "Spirit of Missions," the Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, through its Committee for Domestic Missions, has resolved, upon the motion of Bishop B. B. Smith of Kentucky, to provide the latter with the necessary means for establishing a mission among the Germans. In a letter to the secretary of that committee dated January 23 of this year, the aforementioned Bishop of Kentucky reports how he learned from a certain Mr. Sträter — formerly an evangelical preacher in Cincinnati and now converted to the Episcopal Church — that there is a lack of educated preachers for the German Lutherans, and that the less educated among them incline toward the excesses of the Methodists; it is therefore evidently to be feared that the German-Lutheran youth will at last fall entirely into the hands of the enthusiasts, if the (Episcopal) Church does not take up the cause of the abandoned.

Here you have a new proof, dear brothers in office and in the faith, of the great distress of our Church in this land. Let us not only recognize from this as well how great a reason we have to humble ourselves before the Lord of the Church, but also let us not fail to heed the loud admonition thereby addressed to us, to do everything in our power so that the children of our Church here need not go begging for bread at foreign doors.

"Der Missionsbote."

The first issue of a new periodical under this title lies before us. The paper is, as stated in the sample issue, "intended to relate the latest news concerning the journeys, labors, struggles, and victories of the messengers of Christ among the heathen, Jews, and Mohammedans"; it will also, in particular, make mention of the mission among the Indians of Michigan that has gone forth from the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Michigan. Only, it continues, of the most important events of the Christian Church, both of this land and of the old fatherland, will the Bote make mention, as briefly as possible. The paper will be edited on behalf of the aforementioned Synod by Pastors F. Schmidt of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and F. A. Hoffmann of Addison, Illinois, and will be issued twice monthly at the annual subscription price of 50 cents. The paper may be ordered at the address: Der Missionsbote, Addison, Ill.

Since Der Missionsbote will go forth in the name of an ecclesiastical body that bears the Lutheran name on its brow, it is our most heartfelt wish that, following Luther, it let nothing but the pure, eternal Gospel be its message (Rev. 14:6). It has grieved us that it declares itself to be a messenger of peace, and yet immediately, combative and bitter enough, delivers a side-blow against those whom it brands as people who "love quarreling." That is, in our humble judgment, hardly the way by which one seeks and furthers peace.

(Submitted.)
Announcement.
Hamilton, O., March 31, 1847.

Since, on account of the controversy much discussed in the public papers between the two German congregations in Hamilton, Ohio, still greater evils than those already occurring might be feared, the undersigned considers it more expedient, for himself and his Evangelical Lutheran Zion congregation, to leave the city. On the one hand, he proceeds from the conviction that, so long as such disputes exist between two congregations (already for three years now), he cannot labor with beneficial success; on the other hand, he also feels obliged not to blindly sacrifice his life and property to the wanton rage of his enemies, but rather to preserve them as long as possible. It was on the 20th of this month, at half past nine in the evening, that his windows were smashed and his right arm was disabled by a thrown stone, which he had to carry in a sling immediately afterward; his child, who lay sleeping in the cradle, was nearly killed as a result of a heavy stone that flew past its face, and also, as he has reason to believe, his horse was poisoned on the following Monday evening, so that it could not live much longer. Now, in order not to give such enemies occasion for still greater criminal offenses, he departs, out of love for them and with sorrow, from his Evangelical Lutheran Zion congregation, which is united with him in faith and peace. All his correspondents are requested, from May 9th onward, to address him at the following address:

Ad. Conradi,
Evangelical Lutheran preacher at St. Peter's Church in New Bremen, Mercer Co., Ohio.

(Submitted.)
Woodville, Ohio, March 6, 1847.

Reverend Mr. Walther!

The following is the copy of a letter which was once sent to the Reverend Mr. Schmidt, editor of the Lutherische Kirchenzeitung, with the intention that the announcement made therein should be made publicly known in the Lutherische Kirchenzeitung — which, however, did not happen. Whether the letter did not reach its destination, or whether the great distance of the editor from the press, or the complete cessation of the Kirchenzeitung placed an obstacle in the way, I do not know. It seems to me, however, that its publication might still be necessary now. You are therefore asked kindly to have the whole of it appear in the "Lutheraner," etc., etc.

G. Cronenwett.