# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1848 08 02_S211
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"Are you not the man who has so often asked God to reveal His judgments to him? Know then: what has happened before your eyes has all happened by God's command, and all of it has its weighty causes, which I will now disclose to you. The hermit in the forest, whom we saw torn by a lion and lying in his blood, had asked God for the grace of letting his blood also be shed in honor of the Lord Jesus, who had spent His own blood for the redemption of mankind; this request God granted him; for before God there is, in this respect, no difference between a tyrant and a lion. The other man, whom I drowned, had formerly been devout, but had let the world draw him back into its snares; through my persuasion I brought him back again to repentance; so that he might not again become entangled in the godless ways of the world and be eternally lost, I took him, by God's ordinance, out of this world full of temptation as soon as he had come again to repentance. The third was otherwise a devout man, but because God had granted him the silver goblet, he used it for vanity; indeed his heart clung to it so much that even during his prayers he often thought of the goblet; therefore I took from him this idol and, with it, the occasion for sin. The fourth was, as you yourself saw, very godless, and, by God's just judgment, given over to a perverse mind; to him I gave the goblet, to signify that he has his portion in this world and will in future keep company with the rich man in hell. The fifth was formerly, when he as yet had no child, very generous toward the poor; but when God afterward gave him his only son, he began to be stingy and covetous, and would have been lost thereby had he kept the son; but now, since his child, who died blessed in the grace of his baptism, has been taken from him, the father will turn back again from his covetousness, will walk again as a believing Christian, and so be saved. What think you now, mortal! can you find fault with God's judgments, or with any right complain of His wondrous ways?" The Christian was silent, took leave, thanking, of the messenger of God, and from then on never took offense at any dispensation of God, however incomprehensible.

Changed Address:

Pastor C. G. Stübgen, formerly in Wheeling, Va., has accepted a call from the German Lutheran congregation in Erie, Pa., to which he requests that his letters be addressed from now on.

The address of Rev. P. R. Grätz is once again: New Washington, Crawford Co., O.

Received
for the mission on the Cass River in Mich.:
$14.81¼ from the town congregation at Fort Wayne.
From Messrs. Fried. Meyer, Joh. H. Trier, Louis Gerke, members of the country congregation of Rev. Dr. Sihler, $1.00 each.
$5.00 from the congregation of Rev. P. Jäbker of Adams County. 50 cts. from Mrs. Diesen of Noble County.
A. Cramer, Pastor.
$1.00 and $2.00 from two persons unnamed. 50 cts. from Mr. Nagel.

for the Synodical Mission Fund:
$1.00 from Mr. Metz, sen. $3.62½ from several members of the congregation in St. Louis.

Paid.
For the 4th volume: Messrs. Fried. Krückeberg, Georg Marx, Ludwig Reichle.
The second half of the 4th volume: Messrs. Alt and Spiess.
For the 4th and 5th volumes: Messrs. Phil. Anschütz and Jakob Helfrich.

Lord's Supper, holy: that the body and blood of Christ are not truly and really present in it is not proven 1. by the fact that it is a memorial meal 2, 2; 2. because it has taken the place of the Passover 22, 3; 3. because at its first celebration the body and blood of Christ had not yet been given over to death 27, 13; 4. because the body of Christ was not yet glorified at that time 27, 3; 5. because Christ Himself was bodily present 2, 2; 6. because it would contradict the concept of a sacrificial meal and the manifest sense and purpose of the Holy Supper 29, 1. — "In my blood" means as much as "on account of" 29, 3. From the literal or verbal sense of Scripture one may never depart 37, 3; for this would be 1. contrary to a reasonable interpretation 37, 3; 2. contrary to the origin of Holy Scripture 38, 1; 3. contrary to its purpose 38, 2; 4. we are earnestly warned against it in God's Word itself 38, 3; 5. the devil has always led men astray to it 39, 1; 6. it is against the example of all the saints 39, 2. — "Is" never means "signifies" in Holy Scripture 92, 1. What is to be understood by trope 93, 1. When an expression in Holy Scripture is to be understood properly or figuratively 99, 3. The words of institution are to be taken literally, 1. because there is no reason why one should depart from the proper meaning 100, 3. 110, 2; 2. because there are many important reasons that advise against it and show that the words of institution must necessarily be taken literally 118, 2. 141, 3. 150, 1. 156, 3. Bread and wine are not changed into the body and blood of Christ 158, 1.

Absolution requires faith 39, 3; is spoken as often as a Christian preacher opens his mouth 103, 3. Christ Himself pronounced absolution 83, 2; gave the disciples authority to do so 84, 2; in them it is given to the office of the New Testament 90, 2. Keys signify a manifold power 91, 1; in the narrower sense the key of binding and loosing 91, 2; God Himself forgives and retains sin by means of the key of binding and loosing 91, 2. No one should, on account of the inner assurance of grace, despise absolution 101, 2. The power of the keys is not judicial and worldly but spiritual 101, 3. The ban is to be exercised by the whole congregation 102, 1. Confession before the preacher 102, 1. External compulsion should not prevail in it 102, 1. General confession the most imperfect 102, 2. Is the preacher able to judge the impenitence and penitence of the one confessing? 106, 3. Whether absolution is limited by the condition of penitence 107, 2. Whether absolution, even when spoken by a godless preacher, is efficacious 115, 3. (See also Confession.)

Accommodation, right, 77, 3.
Office, the, of the New Testament 77, 1.
Anecdotes: Amphilochius moves Emperor Theodosius to the expulsion of the Arians 8, 1. Sylvanus instructs a monk who will not work 8, 2. A drunkard falls asleep as soon as he hears the Word of God 8, 2. Marius, the suffragan bishop, wants to stay with his mother 8, 3. A father can more easily feed six children than six children one father 13, 2. Mockery of table-prayer punished 13, 3. Luther and the monk-steward Kestner 13, 3. A solemn hour of prayer at Eilenburg 32, 2. The dreadful end of Nicolai, Krause, and Spira on account of denial of Lutheran truth 45, 3. Proud humility 55, 2. Moser and the suspicious transaction 55, 3. Volney in mortal danger 56, 1. "God be praised that I have come into the church," etc. 71, 1. The wonderful guidance of God, from the life of Lütkemann 72, 1. "In peace and joy I now depart" 77, 2. Repentance and amendment 84, 3. Sapricius and Nicephorus 85, 1. Factual proof that the hearing of the Word of God is not in vain 85, 2. Dr. Lorenz experiences angelic escort 86, 1. The steadfastness in the faith of Duke Julius of Brunswick 87, 2. Luther as comforter of the sick 87, 3. Example from the

Index for the fourth volume of the Lutheraner.

(The first numeral indicates the page, the second the column of the same.)

history of the papal Bible prohibition 88, 3. Hess and the beggars in Breslau 95, 3. Deification of man 96, 1. Church examinations 103, 1. Condemn not all for the sake of a few 102, 1. The hen's egg 103, 2. Felsner's wonderful preservation 108, 1. Table-prayer 112, 3. The spiritual priest 120, 1. Death a good test of religion 120, 3. Jaczo, the Wendish prince 127, 2. Voltaire in death 128, 1. A title over a register of sins 128, 3. Unbelief struck down 135, 2. The blessing of intercession for a wayward son, from the life of Spener 135, 3. Urlsperger and Francke 143, 1. Newton and Dr. Taylor 143, 2. God's purpose when He lets our children die 143, 3. "Come out, Joachim! the Savior is here" 152, 1. Divine preservation of a child 152, 1. Difference between a rationalistic church and a comedy house 152, 3. Paul a Lutheran 152, 3. The rejected father 159, 3. The powerful mirror 159, 3. Papist veneration of Mary 160, 1. Shoes from the baker 160, 3. Divine long-suffering toward a person under temptation 175, 1. A Christian believer 175, 2. The forsaken Lutherans 175, 3. Why have you done this? 182, 2. John and the hunter 183, 2. The toll-penny 183, 3. Voluntary tithe 183, 3. Be doers of the word and not hearers only 184, 1. "This is the hand of God" 199, 2.

Temptation, the most dangerous, 116, 2.

Apologist, how he cites Scripture 12, 1; his slanders 47, 2; denies a fact 95, 3.

Arndt, Joh., explanation of the words: "This do in remembrance of me" 22, 2.

d'Aubigné has false reports in his church history 67, 2. 92, 1.

Enlightenment in the primeval forests 94, 1. 136, 2.

Augsburg Confession, its presentation 65, 1. 73, 1. Its alteration 166, 3.

Augustine on the testament of the Lord 119, 1.