# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 05 11_S128
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that external calm has been restored almost everywhere, but the bitterness of the parties continues; the reactionary party — that is, the one seeking a return to the earlier conditions — has everywhere gained the upper hand, and has wrested from the people, partly by force, as in Vienna and Berlin, partly through the arts of politics, their so-called achievements of March; yet it by no means seems certain of its triumph.

The lofty thoughts of the unity and freedom of Germany have for the most part dissolved into nothing; never has the prospect of unity among the various German peoples been more distant than now. The Frankfurt Diet, which is said to be so expensive, incidentally, that every word spoken there costs half a gulden, seems to be losing more and more of its moral force. It passes resolutions, but nobody troubles about them. In January the so-called fundamental rights were to be published and put into effect throughout all Germany; but when the day came, no one gave it a thought — some governments flatly refused to introduce them, others wished to recognize them only conditionally, still others wanted to wait and see what the others would do. The Diet has resolved that there shall be an emperor, and that he shall be chosen from among the ruling princes. But Austria, noticing that the King of Prussia has a good prospect of the imperial crown, is showing displeasure and will in no case submit to subordination under another prince. It will either separate itself entirely from the German Confederation, or, if it cannot secure the imperial election for itself, will overturn the whole project through secret intrigues — especially since it has like-minded allies in Russia, Bavaria, and Hanover.

In Hungary, the hitherto victorious imperial forces are said to have suffered significant losses at the hands of the Hungarians, and it is supposed that the Emperor would be prepared to make a fair peace with the rebellious Hungarians.

Denmark continues to arm itself considerably, notwithstanding that the peace negotiations are being continued and the armistice is to be extended by three months.

In France the new President, Louis Bonaparte, is gaining popular favor and adherents. There is already talk of his prospective ascent to the throne.

That the Pope has fled from Rome is already known; now, on the 9th of February, the Roman people have also proclaimed the republic and declared the Pope's temporal rule over the Papal States abolished. It is intended, however, to secure for the Pope the exercise of his spiritual authority. This act was concluded with a Te Deum in St. Peter's Church. It is likely that the fire will spread further, since already the Grand Duke of Tuscany has been driven from his residence, and the republic has been declared there as well. Two armies are said to be marching on Rome, in order to reinstate the Pope in "the patrimony of Peter."

It is also a remarkable sign of the times that the Turkish Sultan has issued a law by which Christians are to enjoy equal civil rights with the Muslims, and are even to have access to the highest offices of state. The two principalities standing under Turkish suzerainty, Moldavia and Wallachia, which had been occupied by the Russians on account of a revolution that broke out there, are still in the hands of the latter, and they have no desire to give them up again, despite the protest of England and France against it.

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The Enlightened and the Church.
A Responsive Song.

1 Sam. 24:13: The Lord shall be judge between me and thee.

The Enlightened.
How far indeed have we come,
How far advanced are we!
We have now made the doctrine clear,
Won the very kernel of the Bible.
We have shown that a God there must be,
His attributes we know:
That God is God — this now holds in common,
And Christ is to be called his messenger.

The Church.
The mouth of fools indeed says well:
The true God we do mean;
Yet their heart is full of unbelief,
In deed they do deny him.
Their nature indeed is corrupted,
Before God it is an abomination altogether,
Not one of them does any good.

The Enlightened.
And what man's constitution may be,
You need only ask us that;
Of his manifold gifts
We know the right thing to say.
For to reason all is clear,
She builds a tower unto heaven,
There she beholds God, and to a hair,
Man in the earthly tumult.

The Church.
Our knowledge and understanding
Is wrapped in darkness,
Where not the hand of Thy Spirit
Fills us with bright light.
To think, do, and devise what is good,
Thou thyself must work in us.

The Enlightened.
Man is noble, is godlike, is free,
Is born without sin;
If he but use his manifold gifts,
Good fortune is never lost to him.
And should he stumble — see, we do not deny it —
Yet he need not be dismayed:
His own virtue absolves him again,
Its splendor will cover the harm.

The Church.
Through Adam's fall wholly corrupted
Is human nature and being:
His poison has been inherited by us,
We could not be healed
Without God's comfort, who has redeemed us
From the great harm
Into which Satan's power
Had brought us,
To load God's wrath upon us.

The Enlightened.
Behold, this is truth, which makes you free
And happy; it does not forbid rejoicing —
Only let it be nicely moderate and decent,
So that its consequences need not be feared.
And when you have completed your earthly course,
You faithful, you glorious souls,
Then to you, who have done good here,
The reward of virtue will not fail.

The Church.
In the midst of life
We are surrounded by death:
Whom shall we find to help us,
That we may obtain grace?
Thou art he, Lord, alone.
We repent of our misdeeds,
Which have angered Thee, O Lord.
Holy Lord God,
Holy mighty God,
Holy merciful Savior,
Thou eternal God, let us not sink
Into the bitter agony of death. Kyrie eleison.

The Enlightened.
How far indeed have we come,
How far advanced are we!
Yet take heed, o friends, of this,
Which we have won with such toil.
Unite, friends of the light, in this hour,
To draw the bonds yet closer,
Lead the fight against the men of darkness:
Truly, you will succeed.

The Church.
The Word they shall let stand,
And earn no thanks for it thereby.
He is well with us on the field,
With his Spirit and his gifts.
Let them take the body,
Goods, honor, child, and wife:
Let it all go,
They have no profit by it;
The kingdom must yet remain ours.

(From the Zeitgedichte of H. A. Seidel.)

The Two Blind Men.

There were once, in Rome, two blind men. One of them cried out daily in the streets of the city: "He is helped, whom God helps"; the other, however, cried: "He is helped, whom the Emperor helps." Since they did this every day, and the Emperor often heard it, he had a loaf of bread baked and filled with many gold pieces. This bread, filled with money, he had given to the one blind man who appealed to the Emperor's help. When he felt the heavy weight of the bread, he sold it to the other blind man when he happened to meet him. The blind man who had bought the bread carried it home, and when he had broken it open and found the money inside, he thanked God and from then on ceased to beg. But since the other still kept begging for bread in the city, the Emperor summoned him and asked him: "What did you do with the bread I had given to you yesterday?" He answered: "I sold it to my friend, because it seemed to me to be doughy." The Emperor, however, said: "Indeed, whom God helps, he is helped," and sent the blind man away from him.
(A Latin story from the 13th and 14th centuries. Magazine for Foreign Literature.)

The German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States holds its next sessions in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from the Wednesday after Trinity, the 6th to the 16th of June of this year.

Change of Address:
Rev'd J. C. Schulze,
Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio.

The bookstore of Rohland and Detharding, No. 9 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, Mo., recommends:

Der Pilger aus Sachsen [The Pilgrim from Saxony].
A Christian periodical. 14th year. 52 numbers, $1.00.

Received
for the mission on the Cass River in Michigan:
$1.00 from the Lutheran congregations at Bucyrus and Galion, Crawford Co., Ohio, through Rev. Kraus.

For the synodical mission fund:
$5.68 from Rev. Löber and his congregation. $1.00 from Mr. Gottfried Müller of Paitzdorf. $3.00 through Rev. Habel, from his congregation in Pomeroy and Chester Township, Ohio. $3.00 from Rev. Brauer, a collection. $4.15 from members of the congregation in St. Louis.

Paid.

The 1st year: Mr. Fr. Ochs.
The 4th year: Mr. Heinr. Bardonner, through No. 17.
The 1st half of the 5th year: Mr. Kaufmann.
The 2nd half of the 5th year: Messrs. Fr. Markgraf, Jakob, and Chrn. Wingert.
The 5th year: Messrs. Anton Bade, P. Brauer, John Beery, Conr. Brandes, Fr. Dickmann, Nicol. Helferich, Georg Heilbronn, P. Jäger, Krage, P. Meißner, Fr. Ochs, P. Röbbelen, H. Schmidt, Chrn. Spannagel, Georg Weidner.
The 1st half of the 6th year: Messrs. Fr. Markgraf, Jakob, and Chrn. Wingert.

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