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LEHRE UNO WEHRE
MAGAZIN FUER EV.-LUTH. HOMILETIK
THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLy-THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY
Vol. X April, 1939 No.4
CONTENTS Pqe
The Means of Grace in Roman Theology. Theodore Graebner ...... 241
Der Pastor als Synodalglied. F. Pfotenhauer ................ _ ... _ .... _ ....... _ 250
The False Arguments for the Modern Theory of Open Questions.
Walther-Arndt ... _... ... . .. _ .... _.............. . ..... _ ... _ .. __ .... _. 254
Sermon Study on 1 Cor. 10:16, 17. Th. Laetsch ......... _ ..... _ ........ _ ...... 262
Evil Spirits ... _ ............... _ .................. ................................. ....... ............. __ ....... 2'16
Predigtentwuerfe fuer die Evangelien der Thomasius-Perikopen-
reihe ... _._ .... _._ ....... _ .... _ ................ _ .... _ .......... _ ..... _ ......... _ ........ __ ........ %'19
Miscellanea ... __ . __ ._ .... _ .... _ .... _ .... _ .... _ .... _ .... _ .......... _ .... _ ... __ ... _ ... _ ... _._ 293
Theological Observer. - Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches ... _ .... _ ..... _ .. _ 29'1
Book Review. - Literator ......... _ ... _ .......... _ ... _ .... _ ... _ ... _ ... _. __ .. _._. 309
BIn Predller mua n1cht aIleln wei-
tift. aIIO duI er cUe Scha1e unter-
welM. wle de rec:hte ChrIsten lOIlen
_In. sondem aucb daneben den Woe!-
fen we""". duI de cUe Scbafe nlcht
l!I8l'Uten und mit fabcber Lehre ver-
fuehren und J:rrtum eblfuehren.
Ea 1st keIn DIne. du cUe x-te
mehr bel der Xlrcbe behael& deDn
die JUte Predlit- - Apologfe. An. ...
Luthiif'.
If the trumpet live an uncertaJn
sound who IbaJl prepare blmNlf to
the battle? - J Crw.l4.'.
Published for the
Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri. Ohio, and Other States
CONCORDIA PUBLISHING BOUSE, St. LoaJs, Mo.
BCHIV
Miscellanea 293
Miscellanea
The Campanius Catechism
Through the generosity of Mrs. Lydia Leatherman, well-known and
active churchwoman, member of Salem Church, Minneapolis, Minn., the
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary has become the custodian
of one of the most important relics of the Lutheran Church in America,
the Delaware Catechism of John Campanius. The gift has an especial
timeliness in view of the widely observed commemoration last year of
the three-hundredth anniversary of the coming of the Lutheran Swedes
to Delaware. But it has a perpetual significance as a great trophy of the
spirit of true Lutheranism. One may doubt that American Lutheranism
has a holier relic than this little book. When we consider that this
devoted pastor, who sojourned in this country, then a wilderness, for
only five years and was burdened throughout with parish cares, found
time to learn the Delaware language from the Indians, reduce it to
writing, and translate the Catechism into it, we wonder and admire. How
great must have been his love for his fellow-men and his love for the
Gospel! It is, moreover, a great glory to our Church that this book is the
first translation of a Christian work into a tongue of the American
Indians.
The Rev. John Campanius came to Fort Christina, Delaware, Feb-
ruary 15, 1643, a man fitly described by his bishop as "a man most highly
to be praised on account of his unwearied zeal in always propagating the
love of God." He built a church at Tinicum, nine miles from Phila-
delphia, and returned to Sweden in 1648. Weare told that he preached
on Sundays and festivals, on Wednesdays and Fridays, and on all week-
days held morning and evening services. His Catechism was published
by King Charles XI of Sweden, whose coat of arms appears on the
leather cover and who sent many copies to America. The seminary's
copy of the Catechism is a beautifully printed volume, with an illumi-
nated title-page, bound in leather, and is in an excellent state of preser-
vation. Though several hundreds of copies were printed and sent to this
country, so far as we have been able to find out, fewer than half a dozen
are now known to exist. There is an introduction of fourteen pages.
The translation is followed paragraph by paragraph with a Swedish
version. At the close there is a vocabulary of the Delaware language.
Thomas Campanius Holm, grandson of Campanius, writes: "The
Indians were frequent visitors at my grandfather's house. When for
the first time he performed divine service in the Swedish congregation,
they came to hear him and greatly wondered that he had so much to say
and that he stood alone and talked so long, while all the rest were listen-
ing in silence. This excited in them strange suspicions; they thought
everything was not right and that some conspiracy was going forward
among us, in consequence of which my grandfather's life and that of the
other priests were, for some time, in considerable danger from the
Indians, who daily came to him and asked him many questions."
Holm goes on to tell how the missionary won the natives' affection
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and such acceptance for his message that they "induced him to exert
himself to learn their language," with the result that "those people who
were wandering in darkness were converted to the Christian faith or at
least acquired so much knowledge of it that they were ready to exclaim,
as Captain John Smith relates of the Virginia Indians, that, so far as the
cannons and guns of the Christians exceeded the bows and arrows of
the Indians in shooting, so far was their God superior to that of the
Indians."
It is not without awe that one takes up this little book harking from
the remote beginnings of our Church in the New World and reflects on
the power that produced it and the fruits, which its author could never
surmise. - The Lutheran, Feb. 15, 1939.
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