# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1850 01 08_S80
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and have also borne it. If the "Friedensbote" wanted to solve its task properly, it should have proven, point by point, that the name Evangelical belongs to it before all others. And that is, that is the very matter at stake. What good is a good name without a good cause, and what harm does a despised name do, if it designates something honest? What good did it do the Jews that they had the name of Israel's God, when they rejected the word of the Lord, and what harm did it do the Christians that they were called Galileans and a sect, when they still remained with the word of the Lord and in the doctrine of the apostles? So it does the United Church no good that they attach to themselves the beautiful name Evangelical, if they do not prove that they truly have the pure evangelical doctrine in every point; and it does us Lutherans no harm that we have received this name taken from a man, since this name designates the pure gold of evangelical doctrine, which, drawn from God's word, lies open before the eyes of all the world in our public church confessions.

How precarious the honesty and sincerity of the dear "Friedensbote" stands, however, we feel compelled to show by a second example as well. On page 3 of the first number, it says that Elector Friedrich III of the Palatinate (who, as is well known, deposed and drove out more than a hundred faithful Lutheran preachers solely because of their faithful adherence to the doctrine, sworn by them, of the unaltered Augsburg Confession*) was "one of the most pious lords of the time of the Reformation and a faithful confessor of the Augsburg Confession" — and yet, four lines further down in the same article, it says: "In the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, neither he nor his theologians ever agreed with Luther**), and still less with Luther's successors." If that is not making public mockery and jest with truthfulness, then we indeed do not know what being truthful means. We fear, however, that the "Friedensbote" has hereby wished to prepare its readers by degrees for the unveiling of the secret that he too is a "faithful adherent of the Augsburg Confession." And it is certain: once readers have once grasped that one can be unfaithful and faithful at the same time, then it will also not be hard to convince them that the united-evangelical church and all its members, together with the whole American Lutheran General Synod, with the gentlemen doctors Kurtz, Schmucker, and Sprecher at its head — indeed, that all Christians, and finally no doubt all heathens, Jews, and Turks as well — are nothing but "faithful adherents of the Augsburg Confession." We have nothing to add but the words of God: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Isaiah 5:20.

*) In this matter, especially later on, the Elector proceeded so unchristianly and tyrannically that even more fair-minded Reformed men complained of it. Among others, Rudolph Walther — otherwise so unfavorably disposed toward the Lutherans — writes of him to Beza in the year 1576: "Velim illum rebus agendis homines adhibere .... qui modestius prudentiusque agerent," that is: "I could wish that he would employ, for carrying out these matters, men who would act more modestly and more sensibly." Indeed, Crato already writes to the same in 1574: "In the Palatinate, where minds are not yet instructed and confirmed in the true doctrine (he means the Calvinist doctrine), they have first changed everything external (a fine reformation indeed!); but since some seek to please the prince more than God, I fear that the truly godly will, before long, have to go into exile." See Cyprian's Instruction, etc., vol. II, p. 328. Finally, Hubert Languet wrote to the Palatine minister von Wittgenstein: "To pass over the question of whether it is permitted to do violence to consciences — for I hold that those who take away from consciences the ministers of the religion which they hold to be the true one are themselves ruling over those consciences by force." Ibid., I, 258. From these testimonies of the Reformed themselves the reader may judge what sort of godly man this prince was, under whose protection the Heidelberg Catechism was published.

**) This, moreover, is untrue. To be sure, the Elector was earlier of Lutheran mind in all doctrines. His own eldest son, Ludwig VI, who succeeded him in the government and who was devoted with his whole heart to the Lutheran faith, wrote to him in the year 1575: "We may say with truth that we ... in some evangelical churches, which from the beginning confessed the Augsburg Confession, have to this very day heard nothing else, in the smallest point, than what we were taught and instructed in our youth by your fatherly love, or by your command." See Cyprian's Instruction, etc., vol. II, p. 321. Only in the year 1560, as a result of a disputation at Heidelberg between the Frenchman Boquin and the Lutheran theologian Mörlin, did the Elector become of a different mind.

Those, respectively the recipients, of the "Lutheraner" who may still have surplus copies of No. [illegible] and 2 of the sixth volume in their possession are kindly requested to send them back to the dispatch office [Expedition] of this paper.
F. W. Barthel.

Letterbox.
Mr. Pastor S. in S. would greatly oblige me by sending the item in question.

Received for the building of the German Evangelical Lutheran College in St. Louis:
From the small Evangelical Lutheran congregation in St. Clair Co., Ill., $47.67 [amount partly illegible]. From B. N. of Wisconsin, with the heartfelt wish that from this seminary messengers of the gospel may also go forth for poor Wisconsin, $1.00. From the German Evangelical Lutheran Holy Cross congregation near Waterloo, Monroe Co., Ill., through Mr. Pastor Schliepsieck, $15.00. From Mr. Christian Heise in Columbia, Monroe Co., Ill., $3.00. From the Lutheran congregation of Mr. Pastor Kunz in Indianapolis, Ind., $15.00. From the Lutheran congregations of Mr. Pastor Krauss in Bucyrus, Ohio, $6.00.

Received for home missions:
From Mr. Heinrich Succop, 25 cts. From Mr. Rudolf Hinnau, 50 cts. From Mr. W. Succop, $1.00. From Mr. Joh. Keil, $1.00. From Mr. Rudolf Auf der Heide, 25 cts.

Received for the church building of the Lutheran congregation of Pastor Brohm in New York:
$1.00 from Mr. B. H. Succop.
E. Roschke, Treasurer.

Received for the Synodical Mission Fund:
$2.55 collected by the girls of the school at the local Trinity Church. $1.00 from Mr. Matth. Köhnle. $1.20 from Mr. Ludwig Giers. $145.15 church collection of the Lutheran congregation in St. Louis, collected on the Feast of Epiphany this year. $10.50 from the congregation in Pomeroy, Ohio. $1.00 from Mr. D. Göglein. 50 cts. from Mr. P. Höpfner and G[?].

Paid.
For the 4th volume: Mr. Georg Willner.
For the 5th volume: Messrs. P. Müller, Georg Willner, Stephan Sauer, B. H. Succop.
For the 2nd half of the 5th volume: Mr. Adam Hofstädter.
For the 1st half of the 6th volume: Mr. Adam Hofstädter.
For the 6th volume: Messrs. P. Biewend, Mich. Benss, Phil. Ellinger, Lorenz Fick, Jakob Fischer, P. Gräss, G. Gander, D. Göglein, Joh. Göglein jun., Johann Göglein sen., Johann Gebhardt, Heinrich Johanning, Hartmann, P. Hobstetter, Christoph Hamm, H. Hammer, Mich. Kleinschmidt, W. Kautz, G. Kautz, P. Matth. Loy, P. Müller, B. Nölting, E. O. Nölting, G. Ohlinger, G. Rasp, P. Schieferdecker, Peter Schmelz, Prof. Sprecher, J. Thress, Joh. Werling, H. Wolf, Carl Ackmann, J. H. Coers, Rudolf Hinnau, Rudolf Auf der Heyde, Joh. Keil, Stephan Sauer, B. H. Succop.

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