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and Luther wrote « humble letter to the pope
as he had promised todo; for he still thought
that the pope was only misinformed about the
matter, and that he would be on his side and
on the side of truth after having been better
informed. But he soon found out that the pope
is the Antichrist, the enemy of truth, the enemy
of the Gospel.

Luther would thus gladly have had peace,
but his enemies soon drew him, against his will,
into the battle again. Dr. John Eck, a fana-
tical disciple of the pope, attacked Luther's
doctrines, and so Luther had to defend the
truth against Dr. Eck. In June, 1519, Luther
held a disputation with him in the city of
Leipzig. Dr. Eck affirmed that the pope is,
by divine right, the head of the Church.
Luther said that the Christian Church must
have a head, but this head is Christ, not the
pope. Ifthe pope were the head of the Church,
the Church would, ‘at the death of the pope, be
without a head until another is elected.

Dr. Eck had hoped to triumph over Luther,
but by Luther’s powerful arguments he was de-
feated, and the victory was on Luther's side.
Filled with rage, Eck now went to Rome to
seek revenge. He induced the pope to issue a
bull, that is, a letter in which Luther’s works
were condemned, his writings were ordered to
be burnt, and in which Luther was expelled
from the church as a heretic, if he did not re-
tract his doctrines within 60 days. Eck took
the pope’s bull, or letter, to Germany in tri-
umph. Luther, however, was in good cheer,
although he was condemned by the pope. He
wrote to a friend: ‘I have now much more
courage, since I have become certain that the
pope is plainly the Antichrist and Satan’s seat.”
He wrote a tract ‘‘Against the bull of the Anti-
christ’’, in which he says, “If the pope does
not retract and condemn this bull and punish
Dr. Eck and his comrades, no one shall doubt
that the pope is the enemy of God, the perse-
cutor of Christ, the disturber of the Church,
and the real Antichrist. For until now such
a condemnation of the Christian faith has never
been heard as is uttered in this infernal, ac-
cursed bull.’

Thus Luther was forcibly ejected and ex-
pelled from the Romish church, because he had
confessed the pure doctrine of God’s Word.
He therefore wanted to show the world what
he thought of such an excommunication. On
the 10th of December, 1520, at 9 o’clock in the
oid fire was kindled at one of the gates

are the following horrible statements: ‘The
pepe and his court are not obliged to submit
to the laws of God. If the pope were so wicked
as to lead innumerable souls to hell, no one
would have a right to reprove him for it.”
Such are the infernal doctrines of Antichrist!
No wonder he condemned Luther for preaching
the: pure Gospel!

is, that they cannot be genuine. Ifall the hones
that are said to be from the body of St. Paul
were genuine, he must have had more than one
body. If all the teeth that are worshiped as
relics of a certain saint were genuine, that saint
must have had several barrels full of teeth.
Now, she could not have as many teeth as that
in her mouth. Some of the saints must have
had two heads, some four heads, some five
heads, &c. ‘Those Romish people are a queer
kind of people.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Our CoLLeces AND Semrartes.—The Col-
leges and Seminaries of the Synodical Confe-
rence opened for the new school-year in Septem-
ber with a large number of scholars and students.
—Concordia College at Fort Wayne opened in

QueER PreorLte.—A learned friend of ours
some time ago told us that a renowned bishop
of the pope’s church once said to him that
Luther’s Reformation was necessary on account
October. In the place of Rev. O. Hanser, of the corruption of the Church, but Luther
who has taken charge of the Lutheran Trinity ought to have staid m the Church and carried
church in St. Louis, the Rev. F. Zucker, for- out his Reformation inside of the Church.

és x Now, the man ought to know better. If you
read our “Life of Luther’, you will see that
Luther was put out of the Romish church, be-
cause the pope wanted no Reformation; be-
cause the pope hated the Gospel. Those
Romish people are queer people. If a man
wants to whitewash the dirty rooms of their
house and make the house clean and neat, they
put him out, and then they complain because
he did not clean their house. Queer people,
indeed! Thank God, the Romish church is
not the Church; they could not expel Luther
from God’s Church, but only from the pope’s
church. ;

merly missionary in India, has been chosen as
Director and is already at his post. 285 schol-
ars are attending this College.—The Synod of
Wisconsin dedicated its new Seminary building
on Sept. 8th. Prof. Graebner delivered an
address on ‘The aim of a Theological Training.”

Tar Work or Synops.—The 19 Lutheran
Synods of the Synodical Conference held their
meetings in the past months in the different
parts of our country. Besides business matters
they all discussed doctrines of God’s Word.
Their reports contain sound Bible-doctrine.
They have not only-the Lutheran name, but
they are Lutheran.

Our Next Nuser.—Look out for our next
number! It will be the Christmas number and
will have two pictures. Some of our readers
wish to have pictures in the paper, others tell
us that it would be a pity to have pictures in
every number, because they then would not
have so much reading matter. But at Christ-
mas time, you know, people like to have some-
thing extra. So our little ‘‘Pioneer” will
bring two pictures. Our readers will surely
be very glad to sce that our kind-hearted little
Pioneer’? tells them beforehand what he will
bring at Christmas. But we shall not Jet him
tell you any more about the next number.
No! We shut our window.

Memruis, TENN.—Some idea of the deso-
lation caused at Memphis by the yellow fever
may be found from the fact that on a recent
Sunday not a church bell was heard, and but
one religious service was held in the city, in
which only two ladies and a gentleman wor-
shiped with the minister.

Porson!—Bad books and bad papers are
poison to the soul. No pen can describe the
great harm that has already been done by such
poisonous books and papers. We are glad to
see that the newspaper dealers of Freeport, IIl.,
will no longer sell such bad papers as ‘‘Police
News”, ‘Boys of New York’, ‘‘Under the
Gaslight’? &e. Not only the writers of bad
books and papers, but also those that sell them
must give account to God for their doings.
Parents, teach your children to avoid poison!
Boys and girls, beware of poison!

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Luther’s Catechism—a little Missionary,

Some time after Luther had published his
Catechism, in the year 1529, a poor laborer
traveled from the city of Wittenberg, where
Luther resided, into Northern Germany. He
came to a little village where the people had
not yet heard much about Luther and his work.
It was winter, and the poor traveler suffered
greatly with cold and hunger. He therefore
went to the priest’s home and asked for some
bread and for a night’s lodging. The priest
was a kind man, he took him in, told him to
sit down at the fire, and gave him sumething
to eat and to drink. , The stranger said grace,
and after having finished his meal, he took a
little book out of his pocket and began to read

of Wittenberg, and, in the presence of a large
assembly of doctors, masters and students,
Dr. Luther boldly stepped up the fire and cast
the bull, or pope’s letter, which had been sent
him, together with the pope’s Book of Laws,
into the flames, saying: “Since thou hast
troubled the Holy One of God, may the ever-
lasting fire trouble and consume thee!’’ He
then, in a tract, laid before the public his ren-
sons for taking this step and showed, at the
same time, what ungodly doctrines are laid
down in the pope’s Book of Laws, among which

Retics.—Do you know what relics are?
Relics are parts of bodies of dead saints and
martyrs. Relics are worshiped in the pope's
church, and the priests say that relics can per-
form great miracles. In the city of Hoboken
they pretend to have a bone of the apostle
Paul, by which a lame woman is said to have
been healed lately. Now, the trouble about
all such miracles is, that, whenever the matter
is investigated, they prove to be but Romish
lies. And the trouble about those Romish relics