# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 02 02_S88
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The French have elected a nephew of the old Napoleon, Louis Napoleon, as president of their republic — probably the first step toward repeating the old farce and making an empire out of the republic.

Miscellaneous News.

The President's latest message gives an exceedingly brilliant portrayal of the happy condition of the United States. He says peace, abundance, and contentment prevail throughout our land. Our republic stands in peaceful and friendly relations with all the peoples of the earth. New Mexico and Upper California have been acquired by treaty; the two territories together comprise more land than half of what the United States possessed until now. Whereas not long ago the Mississippi River formed the outermost boundary of the United States, it now flows through their middle. California, quite apart from the recently discovered wealth in precious metals, is entirely suited to command the trade with all of Asia, with the islands of the South Sea, and with the west coast of South America. Soon a great commercial city will rise there. Oregon has received a territorial government.

From every part of the country gold-hungry people are now streaming to California; gold, gold is the talk of the day in the newspapers, in the houses, in the streets. Let the Christians leave the world its gold, which in any case has never yet made a country happy, and let them take from the world a wholesome lesson, mindful of the words of their Savior, Matth. 13, 44—46. and Luc. 16, 8.

On the second of December of last year a ship from Havre brought cholera patients to New York. Since then there have been cholera cases and deaths almost daily in the Marine Hospital there on Staten Island. The city itself, two cases excepted, has so far still been spared.

In New Orleans and on the steamboats of the Mississippi this pestilence is raging with great violence. The time has now come when the LORD calls out to us as well: Because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Amos 4, 12.

On the French island of Martinique in the West Indies the abolition of slavery has caused great mischief; the freed slaves will not work and commit robberies against the whites. A proof that the mere abolition of slavery is a blessing neither for the blacks nor for the whites. Let the blacks first be made into devout Christians who understand how to use freedom in a godly way.

The slave question, which has long kept the northern and southern states of the Union in hostile tension, threatens to become more alarming with every year. Both things are lamentable: the selfish insistence of the slave states upon their right to slavery, and the fanatical interference of the abolitionists with other people's property, whereby on the whole they only make the lot of the poor slaves harder.

The Jesuits have been banished from Germany by a resolution of the Frankfurt Diet; the Pope has fled from Rome to Naples.

Those respective subscribers who still owe payment for the 4th volume, and in part for earlier volumes of the Lutheraner, are requested to send the same, together with the amount for the current volume, to the undersigned as soon as possible.

F. W. Barthel.
(Care of Rev'd. C. F. W. Walther.)

(Contributed.)
The Wise Men from the East.

When it was still hidden from the world
That God had been born,
It was made manifest in the distant East
To the heathen.

There the Wise Men once saw
The stars of God moving:
When in the circles of heaven
A sublime image appeared.

A wondrous sign,
A star of rare splendor,
Before which all shadows yield;
The night is turned to day.

"The eternal Son of God
Draws toward His gates,
The King is born
Upon Judah's royal throne!"

Was it ancient holy tidings
That gave the heathen hope?
Or did God's Spirit in that hour
Instruct them Himself? —

They travel toward distant lands
The star-lit road,
Until they found Salem
And saw the mountains of Zion.

"Let us go before the King,
Before the newborn Child,
Before the LORD, whom we too
Have come to worship."

Then the tyrants tremble,
Jerusalem quakes:
They are directed away from there
To poor Bethlehem.

And behold! there shines again
The star so bright and clear;
Its lovely radiance shines down
There, where the little Child was.

At this the Wise Men rejoice,
The pilgrimage is over;
Now their journeys end:
They go into the house.

In His mother's arms
The JEsus-child lies there;
And she looks upon Him full of compassion,
So heavenly and so gently.

Blessed delight shines
From His countenance toward them:
The eternal sun of grace
Gives them peace and rest,

Ends their sufferings,
Forgives them all their guilt.
Then the heathen thank Him
For His love and favor,

They sink upon their knees
And worship their salvation:
For Judah's Savior, behold!
Is also the portion of the heathen.

They give what they have
To the Child, tender and lovely:
Many kingly gifts
Of frankincense, myrrh, gold.

——

Let Thy radiance appear,
Thou bright Morning Star!
To the heathen who still weep
For Thee in the dark distance.

Write Thy blessed teaching,
LORD Christ! into their minds:
Then their hosts will hasten
In worship unto Thee.

Then the desolate wilderness will grow green,
And lilies will bloom forth;
Then on a distant shore
The fragrance of incense will rise up to Thee.

Then South and North will praise Thee,
And East and West, LORD Christ!
That Thou hast become a little Child
And art our Brother.

H. Fick.

Preacher Wanted.

Since as of the 1st of January of the coming year the local German Evangelical Lutheran St. John's congregation is without a preacher, the clergymen applying for the position are hereby informed that they are to deliver their trial sermons between the 21st of December and the middle of February of next year, on the condition that the candidate present good testimonials as an Ev. Lutheran preacher, and that he must also belong to a Lutheran synod, or promise to join one, and that he undertake to keep school. Traveling expenses will not be reimbursed.

The salary was formerly $200, exclusive of surplice fees and school money. Those interested should apply to the undersigned.

Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.,
December 21, 1848.

F. Wilhelm Deuker } Chairmen.
H. Heinrich Schowe }

Books and Pamphlets to be had at the Office of the Lutheraner at the prices set down below.

Dr. Martin Luther's Small Catechism, unaltered reprint.......... $0.10
The dozen $1.00. One hundred copies $7.00.

Remarkable letter of a lady who in the year 1703, for the sake of the Ev. Lutheran religion, left her fatherland and all her goods and possessions with six mostly unreared children... 0.05
The dozen 50 Cts. 25 copies $1.00.

Dr. Luther's sermon on "Preparation for Dying".......... 0.05

The Constitution of the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, together with an introduction and explanatory remarks.......... 0.05
The dozen 50 Cts. 25 copies $1.00.

First Synodical Report of the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, of the year 1847 .......... 0.10

Second Synodical Report of the same Synod, of the year 1848.......... 0.10

Third volume of the Lutheraner, of 1846—1847. No. 8—26.......... 0.50

Fourth ditto, of 1847—1848 (complete).......... 0.50
(The 1st and 2nd volumes are out of print.)

Christian Book of Concord, that is, the Symbolical Books of the Ev. Luth. Church, New York edition, bound in embossed leather.......... 1.25

Conversations between two Lutherans concerning Methodism (in pamphlet form), 2 copies.......... 0.05

Dr. M. Luther's Treatise on the True Church (reprinted separately from No. 9 of the Lutheraner), 2 copies.......... 0.05

Expected again in a few weeks:

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

Hymnal for Ev. Luth. Congregations, published by the local Ev. Luth. congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, bound, per copy.......... 0.75
1 dozen $8.00 } for cash payment.
100 copies $62.00 }

Received

through Pastor Wyneken in Baltimore:

a) for the building of a church of the "First German Ev. Luth. St. Paul's Congregation in Chicago, Ill., $34.00.

b) for the seminaries at Altenburg and Fort Wayne: From J. L. $9.00. From J. J. 10 German Thalers, $7.83. From Fr. Th. 3.75. From another party $0.60.

c) for the heathen mission on the Cass River in Mich.: Sunday School $5.00. From several other members $3.25.

Paid.

For the 3rd and 4th volumes: Mr. P. Barthels $6.00.

For the 2nd half of the 4th volume: Mr. Gottlob Müller.

For the 2nd half of the 5th volume: Mr. Mich. Kreutel.

For the 5th volume: Messrs. Matth. Ambrosius, Burmann, Damm, Rud. Auf der Heide, P. Döpken, J. Drege, Joh. Rud. Hinnau, Fr. Heck, Anna Kehrer, Joh. Keil, Geo. E. Niemann, O. E. Nölting, G. Reinhardt, G. Reinöl, J. F. Radecker, Daniel Ritz, P. Seidel (8 copies), Treude, H. Weber, H. Waltzen, L. Waldschmidt.

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