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2024-03-02: Full OCR digital text and English machine translations available at later posts - Part 1 (Walther years), Part 2 (post Walther years), etc.; 2021-04-22: updated several volumes to Google Books, some are blue bold; 2021-04-13: updated volumes 56, 57 to Google Books; 2017-12-2: added link to Table of Contents in Archive.org; 2017-5-06: added Google Books vols. 72-72; 2017-03-24: see new comment. Working on malfunctioning "Box.com" download links! -- Will advise here when these are fixed. ~~ 3/25 -- see added temporary links;
==>> 3/28 -- added ALL links to new uploaded Archive.org copies]
This continues from the
previous Part 1 which presented download links to the entire series of the periodical journal
Lehre und Wehre. In this post, I am providing the links to the
scanned copies of much material from the volumes of
Der Lutheraner. This periodical tended to lose its spiritual nature in the later years and so I was selective in what articles I scanned.
In
a blog post of March 2012, I reviewed the other website devoted in part to the translation of early issues of
Der Lutheraner by Pastor Joel Baseley and his
Mark V Publications. I notice that
at this time he is offering a full English translation of the first 3 volumes from 1844 to 1847. Much of the material in these volumes is from Walther himself and is a wonderful resource. But although Baseley's translation work is helpful, it is not near enough for me. Walther's material is so wonderful, I want much more... I want it all!
To aid in going through the vast material in this periodical, I produced a
Table of Contents file for most of it and entered the data from the Index pages where available – not all volumes had indexes. I added hyperlinks for ease of navigating the 90 volumes. Here are downloads for both the DOC file and converted PDF file – in both original German (well edited) and English (roughly translated by Google Translate):
I separated out the
Indexes in this file:
- DL-Indexes only-hyperlinked.DOC (1.4 MB - German)
- DL-Indexes only-hyperlinked.PDF (1.4 MB - German)
- To get an English version, the reader must copy sections into Google Translate for now – I may update to add English files later. A basic problem with this is that an alphabetized German index will not correspond with an alphabetized English version. (Can someone help me on this?)
Some of these volumes are available for download from
books.google.com, These are marked in
red and/or BOLD font. (
Send a private message for my scanned copies of the Google Books versions. --
see below, now uploaded all to Archive.org)
Der Lutheraner – download links (23-100 MB, ~ 4GB total)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1844 – 1854)
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, (1854 – 1864)
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 (1864 – 1874)
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 (1875 – 1884)
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 (1885 – 1894)
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 (1895 – 1904)
61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 (1905 – 1914)
71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 (1915 – 1924)
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 (1925 – 1934)
(Updated links May 6, 2017 – some OCR text files – see updated blog post)
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2017-03-25: alternate
Box.com links -
all my scans:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
Archive.org uploads --
not from Google Books, my own scans [
finished 2017-03-28]:
2017-12-2: Table of Contents PDF also now on Archive.org
with hyperlinks! Open PDF since their viewer does not allow active hyperlinks.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
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As an incentive to dig into this periodical, I present below
Walther's announcement of the first meeting of the
Synodical Conference in
volume 28, page 184:
Proceedings of the first meeting of the Evangelical – Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America at Milwaukee from July 10 to 16, 1872.
This report has just left the press. It has 75 pages and contains the opening sermon and a detailed log of the proceedings: 1) about our task in relation to the English population of our country; 2) on the doctrine of justification; 3). over home missions etc. Notably, the proceedings on justification should (on pages 20–68) give the report a value not small by the fact that this sweet heart doctrine is not treated by dry theological teaching, but practically speaking, that every one which desires something for his soul's salvation, he will find plenty of what he seeks. Members of our Synod can get this report through our agent Mr. M.C. Barthel and his commissioners for 20 Cents . W. [Walther]
The "proceedings on justification" are sometimes referred to as the essay "
Synodical Conference Report 1872", or "
SCR 1872". This is
the foundational document of the Synodical Conference... and what was the subject? The Doctrine of Justification. Prof. Kurt Marquart translated and published this but
erroneously identified the author as Prof. F.A. Schmidt. The
actual author was none other than the writer of the above notice in
Der Lutheraner. Do you see how Walther prefers the subject matter to take precedence over who the author was? Do you see how important this Doctrine of Justification was to Walther?
Do you want more incentives to dig into
Der Lutheraner issues? See Part 2a on the next post in this series. [
Part 2a never completed]
[
There is another blog post (
here)
that gives more information, but this is the main download post.]
(Part 3 continues this series with the Convention Essays of Walther and Pieper)
