On Sunday, October 21, 1849, a pastor eleven months ordained drove through the woods and prairie of St. Clair County, Illinois, to see the first church in Centreville, now Millstadt, dedicated. His letter to Der Lutheraner, read a hundred and seventy-seven years later to the day.
A St. Louis journal printed a New York church's budget in May 1856: $22,505 a year, $432.78 a Sunday, with the bellows-treader's wage on the same list as the pastor's four thousand. Add the column and it comes to $8,505.
In the autumn of 1864 a Confederate army marched to within forty miles of St. Louis, and the theological monthly printed there did not write the word Price once. What its news column recorded instead, and why the silence was not an accident.
A companion edition to “The Public Reading of Scripture”: the Greek witnesses on 1 Timothy 4:13, from Chrysostom to Theophylact, printed whole with English translation — and what they show about a word that never told anyone where it was read.
In 1879 Missouri Synod pastors resolved to reprint all of Luther in German. The plates cost $8,000 before the sixth volume was out, sales collapsed, and the Synod's press finished anyway, thirty years later, down to the index. The St. Louis Edition, from its own forewords and the Synod's minutes.
