# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1849 05 29_S160 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) ...more mightily. How fair a star hast thou risen for me out of Jacob; how lovely a blossom dost thou spring forth from the root of Jesse; how pleasant a light hast thou visited me with, O Dayspring from on high! How one must marvel when one considers thy heavenly attributes, how they make themselves known in the conception by the Holy Spirit, in the birth from the Virgin, in the purity of thy life, in the streams of thy teaching, in the lightning-flashes of thy wonders! And how brilliantly dost thou, O Sun of Righteousness, rise up again out of the heart of the earth after thy setting; how gloriously dost thou, O King, return in thy garment of resurrection to the height of heaven! All my bones say: Lord, who art thou? Bernard, Sermon 47 on the Song of Songs. The Great Danger. "The devil walketh about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." Whether we sleep or wake, eat or drink, whether we do whatever we wish, day and night he lies in wait for us with cunning and malice, and aims his arrows at us, now openly, now covertly. He has thrown countless snares before our feet, has filled our paths with traps of every kind. He has laid snares in wealth as in poverty, snares in words as in deeds. And still men play and jest, as though they were safe and secure. The evil enemy watches without sleeping or sparing; men sleep without watching or praying. Soliloquia, ch. 16. Report on World Affairs. The long-held fears of a general European war are gaining ever greater probability. The fire of war is already burning in the north, south, and east of Europe. Denmark, emboldened by its powerful ally, Russia, has renewed the war, and already many a human life has been sacrificed by water and by land. Victory has now lain almost always on the side of the Germans. All the German ports of the Baltic and North Seas are being blockaded by Danish ships, whereby German commerce suffers incalculable damage. The King of Sardinia, compelled by his war-eager Piedmontese, again took the field against the Austrians, was defeated, abdicated, fled to Spain, and is said to intend to visit America. The Pope is still in exile, and the young Republic in Rome still stands, though on weak feet. The French [government] has resolved to send out an army of 14,000 men to reinstate the Pope in his temporal rule. Unexpected are the victorious advances of the Hungarians against the imperial forces, which are said to have suffered several significant defeats at the hands of the former. On both sides the war is being waged with great bitterness and cruelty. Important events seem to be brewing in Constantinople. The Sultan, weary of the insolent encroachments of the Russians upon his realm, is arming most actively, and has refused the Russians the passage they demanded for their war fleet through the Dardanelles. As for the German Reich, the King of Prussia has been elected German Emperor by the National Assembly, though by a very insignificant majority of votes. The King has thereupon declared himself willing to take over the provisional direction of the affairs of the German Reich; he will accept the imperial crown only on condition that it also be offered to him by the reigning high heads of state concerned. According to the latest reports, on April 14 the plenipotentiaries of the 28 German governments, in a conference held with the Reich Ministry at Frankfurt am Main, signed a document in which those governments declare their assent to the Reich constitution and to the assumption of the imperial dignity by the King of Prussia — with the exception of Austria, Luxembourg, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony, which reserved their declarations. Hübner's Biblical Histories Reprinted Unabridged. We have just received word that, within 4 to 6 weeks, the above-named precious schoolbook will leave the press, reprinted unabridged, at Mr. Ludwig's in New York. The name of Mr. Ludwig, who has already, by God's help, given back to our Church several treasures from the good old times, is our guarantee that this time our hopes will not be disappointed. The honored publisher cannot yet determine the exact price, but it is to be as reasonable as possible. As soon as the book is ready for dispatch, the "Lutheraner" will inform its dear readers, in the confident hope that certainly many preachers, teachers, and fathers of families will, with great joy and heartfelt thanks toward God, seize the opportunity offered — like us — to place into the hands of the dear young souls entrusted to them a treasure for their whole life. Church News. After the evangelical-Lutheran congregation near Waterloo, Monroe Co., Illinois, which had been served by Pastor A. Schieferdecker for eight years, had released him at his own request, and had called Pastor Carl Schliepsiek of Westphalia to be its future pastor, the latter was, on Dom. Exaudi, solemnly installed into his office by Pastor Schieferdecker, at the commission of the President of our Synod. Pastor Schieferdecker, on the other hand, has, alongside his former congregation in and near Columbia, accepted the call of the newly formed evangelical-Lutheran congregation in Centreville, St. Clair Co., and entered upon his office in the latter place on the Feast of the Ascension. May God now grant His grace that the purpose be attained for the sake of which alone this change of office has taken place — namely, that more fruit and benefit may thereby grow for the care and pasturing of souls, and especially for the Christian instruction of the young, and that in this way the kingdom of our LORD Jesus Christ may here also be the more advanced. On Dom. Rogate, the 13th of this month, the candidate of theology from Prussia, Mr. C. H. Siegmund Buttermann, after having received a regular call from the German evangelical-Lutheran congregation at Chester, Randolph County, Illinois, was, at the commission of the President of our Synod, ordained by Pastor Löber, with the assistance of Pastor Gruber, before his congregation, and solemnly installed into his office. This for joyful news to all who let Jerusalem be their highest joy. Psalm 137. "The Evangelical Review." We have already, in No. 25 of the 4th year of our paper, communicated the prospectus of an English periodical to be issued quarterly under the above title. From the "Lutheran Observer" we learn that Professor Reynolds, the editor, has resolved to begin publishing this quarterly on the coming 1st of July. We therefore once again call the attention of our readers, especially our brethren in the ministry, to this important event in the field of our theological literature here, referring to the prospectus already communicated. 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