# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1847 07 07_S133
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…other letters were issued; a colloquium was held four times; ecclesiastical ordination was conferred on two preachers, and preaching was done seven times.

In all, eighteen public sessions of the Synod were held, at the last of which the officers and standing committees of the Synod were elected for the next three-year term, and finally the visitor sent out by the Synod was solemnly dismissed.

The following is the

List
of the preachers and congregations of this Synod, together with the addresses of their respective post offices.

A. Voting Pastors.

Pastor C. F. W. Walther, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession at St. Louis, Mo. — Post office: St. Louis, Mo.

Pastor A. Ernst, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. St. John's congregation, of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, at Neudettelsau, Union Co., Ohio. — Post office: Marysville, Ohio.

Pastor Dr. W. Sihler, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. St. Paul's congregation at Fort Wayne, Ind. — Post office: Fort Wayne, Ind.

Pastor F. W. Pöschke, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. congregation in the Hassler Settlement and of the French Ev. Luth. congregation at Saminaque, Ill. — Post office: Peru, Ill.

Pastor F. A. Crämer, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. congregation at Frankenmuth, Mich. — Post office: Bridgeport, Mich.

Pastor F. W. Husmann, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. St. John's congregation in Allen and Adams Co., and of the German Ev. Luth. congregation near Fülling, Adams Co. (residing in Marion Township, Adams Co., Ind.) — Post office: Fort Wayne, Ind.

Pastor G. H. Jäbker, preacher of the German Luth. congregation in Adams Co., Ind., on the left bank of the St. Marys. — Post office: Poughkepsie, Ind.

Pastor G. K. Schuster, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. congregation in Kosciusko and Marshall Co., Ind. — Post office: Mishawaka, Ind.

Pastor G. Streckfuss, preacher of the German Luth. Zion's congregation in Van Wert Co., and of the German Ev. Luth. St. Paul's congregation in Mercer Co., O. — Post office: Willshire, O.

Pastor J. C. H. Fick, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. congregation in New Melle, St. Charles Co., Mo. — Post office: Femme Osage, Mo.

Pastor E. Mor. Bürger, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. Trinity Church at Buffalo, N. Y. — Post office: Buffalo, N. Y.

Pastor W. Scholz, preacher of the German Ev. Luth. St. John's congregation at Minden, Washington Co., Ill. — Post office: Nashville, Ill.

B. Advisory Pastors.

Pastor G. H. Löber, Altenburg, Perry Co., Mo. — Post office: Apple Creek, Mo.

Pastor Ottom. Fürbringer, Elkhorn Prairie, Washington Co., Ill. — Post office: St. Louis, care of Rev. C. F. W. Walther.

Pastor Ch. A. Selle, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill. — Post office: Chicago, Ill.

Pastor F. W. Richmann, Fairfield Co., Ohio — Post office: Lancaster, Ohio.

Pastor J. Traukmann, Danbury, Ottawa Co., O. — Post office: Port Clinton, Ohio.

Pastor C. L. A. Wolter, Fort Wayne, Ind. — Post office: Fort Wayne, Ind.

Pastor Th. Jul. Brohm, New York City — Post office: New York, N. Y.

Pastor W. Hattstädt, Monroe, Mich. — Post office: Monroe, Mich.

Pastor J. E. Schneider, Marion, Marion Co., Ohio. — Post office: Marion, O.

Pastor A. Detzer, Williams Co., Ohio. — Post office: Bryan, Ohio.

C. Candidates for the Preaching Office.

Carl Fricke, visitor in Wisconsin. — Post office: Fort Wayne, Ind.

J. Lor. Flessa, Frankenmuth, Mich. — Post office: Bridgeport, Mich.

D. Congregational Delegates Present at This Year's Synodical Assembly.

Ernst Voss, delegate of the congregation at Fort Wayne, as well as of the congregations in Allen and Adams Co., Ind.

F. W. Barthel, delegate of the congregation of St. Louis.

J. Heinke, delegate of the congregation in Kosciusko and Marshall Co., Ind.

J. L. Bernthal, delegate from Frankenmuth, Mich.

The Synod was opened by Pastor A. Selle, who delivered an address to the assembled brethren, in which he set forth and impressed upon their hearts the important purpose of this gathering. Thereupon followed the preliminary signing of the synodical constitution, first by those pastors and their delegates who had taken part in drafting it at the previous conference, so that these might first constitute themselves as a Synod and afterward carry out the reception of the rest. These first signers organized themselves as the synodical body by electing officers pro tempore, namely: Pastor C. F. W. Walther as President, Pastor W. F. Husmann as Secretary, and Dr. W. Sihler as Treasurer. — Then followed the reception and signing of the remaining pastors, and this continued on the following days as they arrived one after another. — A necessary distinction was made, however, according to Chapter III, § 3 of the Constitution, so that only those preachers who were authorized by their congregations, and who thus joined together with their congregations, together with their delegates, were received as voting members, whereas those preachers entering merely in their own person, and thus without their congregations, were received as advisory members of the Synod.

Note. Advisory members of this Synod are therefore not, as in other synods of this country, merely incidental and temporary, but actual, permanent members of it.

The Secretary.

Luther on Corner Preachers.

(Cf. Luther's Works, Halle ed., VII, 534 ff.)

Matthew 5:1–2. Here the Evangelist makes a preface and display of how Christ conducted himself with respect to the sermon he was about to preach: that he goes up on a mountain, sits down, and opens his mouth, so that one sees he is in earnest. For these are, as they say, the three things that belong to a good preacher: first, that he step forward; second, that he open his mouth and say something; third, that he also be able to stop.

To step forward means that he present himself as a master or preacher who is able and is meant to do it, as one called to it, and not one who comes of his own accord, but to whom it is due out of duty and obedience; so that he may say: I do not come sauntering in out of my own initiative and opinion, but must do it by virtue of my office.

This is said against those who have brought upon us, and still bring, so much trouble and torment — the rabble and fanatics who wander here and there through the land, running about and roaming, poisoning the people before the parson and those who sit in office or authority find out, and so befoul one house after another until they poison a whole town, and then, from the town, a whole country. To resist such sneaks and roamers, one should by no means allow anyone to preach to whom it has not been commanded and the office entrusted; nor should anyone presume, even if he is already a preacher, when he hears a lying preacher in a papist or other church who is leading the people astray, to preach against him there. Nor should he sneak here and there into houses and set up some special corner-preaching; rather he should stay at home and attend to his own office or pulpit, or keep silent, where he neither wishes nor is able to step publicly into the pulpit.

For God does not want people to go astray with his Word, as though someone were driven by the Holy Spirit and had to preach, and so sought out places and corners, houses or pulpits, where he has no office — for even Paul himself, although he was called by God to be an apostle, was unwilling to preach in the places where the other apostles had already preached. Rom. 15:20. 2 Cor. 10:15–16. Therefore it stands here that Christ goes up onto the mountain openly and publicly when he begins his preaching office, and soon afterward (v. 14) says to his disciples: "You are the light of the world." Likewise (v. 15): "No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, but sets it on a lampstand, so that it gives light to all who are in the house." For the preaching office and God's Word are therefore to shine like the sun, not to sneak about in the dark and act by stealth, as one plays blind man's buff, but to act openly by day, and to let itself be well seen, so that both preacher and hearers may be certain that it is rightly taught and that the office is duly commanded, so that they need have no concealment about it. So do likewise: if you are in office and have a command to preach, then step forward freely and publicly, and fear no one, so that you may boast with Christ: "I have taught openly before the world, and have said nothing in a corner," etc. John 18:20.

But you say: What? Is no one, then, to learn anything unless it happen publicly — or should a father of a household not teach his own servants in his house, or keep a pupil or someone else with him to read to them? Answer: Indeed, that too is well done, and there is a proper place and occasion for it. For every father of a household is obliged to raise his child and household, and to teach or have them