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Hi Pastor Jackson,

Just wanted to let you know that I was at a used bookstore yesterday and happened across an 1895 Charles Porterfield Krauth Conservative Reformation. Hmm, where have I seen that name before? Ah yes, at your website!

So, I went ahead and snapped 'er up.

Just might be the best $20 I ever spent.

In a cursory perusal of its contents I experienced a breath of fresh air of writing uncontaminated by these modern times, but yet speaks to us directly in a way where it might have been written just last week.

Thank you Pastor Jackson for keeping names such as this in circulation, as these just might land in fertile ground - as is the case here.

Yours, in Christ,

Stone Christianson 

Krauth - From the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry

Charles Porterfield Krauth: A Compact Biography by Beale Melanchthon Schmucker

Schmucker, Beale Melanchthon 
Charles Porterfield Krauth: A Compact Biography 
Lutheran Church Review   1888   General Council 
Lutheran Library Publications   Short Books, Schmucker, Krauth, Biography

“Dr. Krauth was beyond all question the most learned and distinguished among all Lutheran theologians that use the English Language, and the great scholars of our church in other parts of the world have long ago ranked him among the chief scholars of the great church of theologians.” – Dr. G. F. Krotel

“He understood the faith, and he gave his best energies to its exposition, inculcation and defense against all assailants.” – Dr. Joseph Seiss

About The Author

Beale M. Schmucker, by nature and education, was a great lover of books, and his friendship with Dr. Charles P. Krauth greatly developed and nourished this love. Their letters of those early years, 1849, when a lively and regular correspondence was carried on, deal sometimes exclusively with lists of new books, catalogues, prices, and the prospects of securing some rare and valuable volumes. “How glorious a thing the gathering of books is!” he says in Read more…

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Krauth's Wise Words for the Worldly Wise in St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Mordor, And The Little Red Schoolhouse on the Prairie

Alec Satin:

Here’s a good quote from Krauth - “Relation of our Confessions…”

We are not such gross idolaters, nor so ignorant of the declarations of these great men themselves, as to imagine that, they left nothing for their posterity to do. Whether they have done it, and done it well, is, however, a very distinct question. To assume that, merely because we follow them in order of time, we have gone further than they in truth, is to lay the foundation of a principle more absurd and pernicious than the worst doctrine of the church of Rome, and is as foolish as to say that my child four years of age is a greater astronomer than Newton, because she lives in the century after him.

If we do not contemptuously reject all aid in the search after truth, to whom can we go with more confidence than to the great authors of the Reformation? We know them at least to be sincere; no hireling scribblers, writing to tickle the fancy of the time; we know them to be the thorough masters of their subjects, conscious that every word would be examined and every argument fiercely assailed by their foes.

Every doctrine they established by the word of God and confirmed by the witness of his church. Every objection which is now urged was then brought to bear upon the truth. Controversy has added nothing to its stores, they knew perfectly those superficial, miscalled reasons which make men now so confident in saying, that had the Reformers only lived in our time, they would have abandoned much to which they held. They knew then, but they lived and died unchanging in their adherence to what they had taught as truth.+

 "Lord Buchholz, is Krauth talking about us,
whom have done so much for Holy Mother Synod?"
LB: "That is another misleading quotation. We protect our younglings from such pollution by marking dangerous words in red - MISLEADING!"
[GJ - Yes, they do that at Mordor in Mequon.]