From Our Master's Table Book

This collection, originally published in 1876 under the title Lutherische Brosamen [in 608 pages] -literally 'Lutheran Breadcrumbs,' grants a sampling of the preaching and writings of C.F.W. Walther (1811 - 1887), first president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod throughout the church calendar. Following those 25 liturgical sermons, are a number of ocassional sermons. But the meat of the collection are the 11 sermons preached to open the earliest of the Synod's conventions as well as 4 of his presidential addresses. These works demonstrate the major and formative concerns that this founding father of the synod had for this fledgling church, including the need to maintain purity of doctrine and practice, church discipline and confessional subscription. This is a must read for those who want a Biblical approach to church structure and Biblically mandated authority and to recognize the opposite.