# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1847 09 20_S16
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Statutes of a new religious society in Germany, called the Gustav Adolf Society.

As a member, anyone joins the society without further ado, as soon as he has proven himself to be a human being by a certificate.

Faith does not come into consideration; it is love that does everything. Love is the shibboleth of the new world-society.

The Fuegian, the Hottentot, the Persian with his double god, the Jew, the heathen, the Turk, is a born member just like the Christian.

The cannibals alone must be excluded; for there is no love of one's fellow man where one still devours another.

Dr. Gollenperger.

We would find it very fitting if some congregations here in this country were to post these statutes over the doors of their churches.

Subscription Notice for an Unaltered Reprint of the Book of Concord.

Next to Dr. Luther's House and Church Postil — of which the former has already circulated in several thousand copies, the latter, if the Lord wills, still to be printed — no book, unless all signs deceive, seems to be a more keenly felt need than the Book of Concord, containing all the confessional writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Guided by the wish to help satisfy this need, and encouraged by the hope of finding at least the same support as was found in the publication of the House Postil, the undersigned is resolved to proceed, as quickly as possible, to the printing of the Book of Concord, this jewel of the Lutheran Church. The task he has set himself is to deliver a thoroughly correct, unaltered reprint, most excellently furnished, at the lowest possible price. With conscientious care he will base his own edition on the Walch or the Pipping edition. The work is to be printed in German type on good, sturdy paper, in duodecimo format, containing about 800 pages, handsomely and durably bound in leather, and delivered at the low price of 91.25. In order to make the low price possible, it will be necessary to omit the 8,000 signatures [of subscribers]. On the other hand, the testimonies etc. appended to the Book of Concord, as well as the Visitation Articles, will not be lacking; finally a thorough subject index will be added, and, if space allows, a brief explanation of the Latin or otherwise, to the layman, unintelligible expressions occurring in the book will be supplied as well.

As soon as 1,500 reliable subscribers are secured, printing will begin. Collectors receive one free copy for every 10 copies subscribed. As soon as printing begins, notice of it will be given in several church periodicals, whereupon the subscribers and collectors are to remit their payments without delay.

So then may this undertaking be commended to the gracious care and keeping of the heavenly Father.

New York, August 26, 1847.

Heinrich Ludwig, No. 70 Vesey St.

Subscribers in the interior are requested to apply to one of the agents named below.

Agents are requested to send in the lists, or the exact number of subscribers, by November 1 of this year.

H. Ludwig, 70 Vesey St., New York.
Wm. Radde, 322 Broadway, New York.
Menss & Rovoudt, 53 North Third St., Phila.
Fr. Gentner, corner of Brown and John St., Phila.
Rev. Pastor W. F. Wyneken, Baltimore.
C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. C. Spielmann, Columbus, O.
Rev. Dr. W. Sihler, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Rev. Pastor F. A. Hoffmann, Addison, Illinois.
J. A. A. Grabau, Buffalo, N.Y.
Rev. Krause, Milwaukie, Wis.
Joh. G. Backofen, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Eggers & Wulkop, Cincinnati, O.
J. J. Fast, Canton, O.
Fried. W. Weiss, Cleveland, O.
P. Beyer, Buffalo, N.Y.
David George, Milwaukie, Wis.
August Lanke, Milwaukie, Wis.
Joh. Ziehlsdorf, Milwaukie, Wis.
Joh. Fr. Grünhagen, Milwaukie, Wis.
E. H. Pease, Albany, N.Y.
Rev. C. G. Schweitzerbarth, Zelienople, Butler Co., Pa.
Joseph Eberhard, Kittanning, Armstrong Co., Pa.

The undersigned editors will with great pleasure undertake to collect subscriptions for the new edition, promised here, of the symbolical books of our Church. Those interested in this are requested to report as soon as possible. More on this shortly. The Editors of the Lutheraner.

Those readers of the Lutheraner to whom one or another number of its 3rd volume may not have reached them, or may have been lost, and who wish to have a complete set, may obtain such numbers, with the exception of numbers 1-7, free of charge upon request through the office of the Lutheraner.

Books and Pamphlets, obtainable at the office of the Lutheraner at the prices listed.

Dr. Luther's House Postil, or Sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and Festival Days of the whole year. New York edition. Bound in calfskin, $2.00.

Church Hymnal for Evangelical Lutheran congregations of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, together with prayers, Luther's Small Catechism, and the Augsburg Confession.

Dr. M. Luther's Small Catechism, unaltered reprint. The dozen, $1.00. The hundred copies, $7.00.

A Remarkable Letter of a Lady who, in the year 1703, for the sake of the Evangelical Lutheran religion, left her fatherland and all her goods and possessions with six mostly [illegible] children — The dozen, $0.50. Twenty-five copies, $1.00.

Dr. Luther's Sermon on "Preparing to Die."

The Constitution of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, together with an introduction and explanatory remarks. The dozen, $0.50. Twenty-five copies, $1.00.

First Synodical Report of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, of the year 1847. Two copies, 15 cents; three copies, 20 cents.

First volume of the Lutheraner, from 1844[-1845] — [illegible]

[Volume] of the Lutheraner, from — [illegible]

Available in Fort Wayne:

1. M. Veit Dietrich's House Postil, in sermons on all the Sunday and festival-day Gospels, per copy, neatly bound in marbled leather, [price illegible]

2. Dr. Nicolaus Hunnius: Thorough and Generally Comprehensible Exposition of the Doctrine of Faith of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in the same binding, [price illegible]

Dr. W. Sihler, Lutheran Pastor in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Received.

For the mission to the heathen on the Cass River in Michigan: $52.00; 0.75; 0.10; 0.05; 0.05; 0.05; 0.10; 1.00; 1.00 — from the Lutheran congregation in Pomeroy, Meigs Co., O.

Paid.

2nd half of the 3rd volume: Messrs. Ch. Heise, J. Kuhl, J. Letz, Chr. Schröder, C. Wöbbecke.

3rd volume: Messrs. J. J. [illegible], Chr. Just, F. Straub.

1st half of the [4th volume?]: J. Kuhl, J. Letz, C. Wöbbecke.

4th volume: Mr. Joh. Birkmann, Fr. [illegible], Louis Brey, Ad. Bruc, E. Buucke, Fr. Buucke, [illegible] (11 copies), Christianer, Ad. Claus, J. G. Fischer, [illegible] Fölling, [illegible] Föllinger, Joh. Göhring, P. Gräbner (4 copies), P. Geyer, Geerken, Louis Griebel, Chr. Herling, Ch. Heise, Höckendorf, P. Hölsche, Geo. Hild, L. Hemme, P. Husmann, Wilh. Harmeyer, Heinr. Heuer, Fr. Heine, Paulus Heid, Conr. Honeck, Conr. Honeck, P. Hofmann, P. Jäbker, J. Jansen, Joh. Kalb, Chr. Kiefer, Knapp, G. Knoll, Conr. Krünmann, Ludw. Kratze, Franz Lipke, Franz Lackenau, Markgraf, Ferd. Meyer, Joh. Fr. Met[z?], Jacob Müller, Franz Oelschläger, Chr. Piepenbril, P[...]manowsky, P. Röbbelen (2 copies), Gl. Steinbrück, Stüber, Chr. Schröder, W. Scheumann, Ad. Schraub, Fr. Schröder, Rud. Schwegmann, K. Strasen, Fr. Stellhorn, Dan. Stecher, E. Steppenhagen, Joh. Timken, Conr. Trier, Joh. H. Trier, Prof. Wolter, Geo. Wolff, Joh. Wefel, Herm. Wefel, Heinr. Wunder, Samuel [illegible].

Printed by Arthur Olshausen, publisher of the Anzeiger des Westens.