Walther Work

Only Through the Doctrine of the Lutheran Church is All Glory Given to God Alone

An English translation of eleven essays Walther delivered to the Western District of the Evangelical-Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States from 1873 through 1886.

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Reader's Edition

This reading edition is built from the supplied Google Drive Word document. It preserves original bold, italic, and underlined emphasis from the source while removing standalone OCR page markers and redundant internal table-of-contents material for smoother mobile reading.

Source: Google Drive document. The title page identifies this as an English translation from the original German of eleven essays delivered by C. F. W. Walther to the Western District in the years 1873 through 1886, published as “A BTL Book” in 2026. The document notes that the translation was produced using machine and AI translators of the time and compared to translations published by a major Lutheran publisher in 1983 and 1992. The downloaded Word document metadata lists Ron Lah as creator and last modifier.

Table of Contents

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1873 Religion; Word of God; Cause of Sin, Death, Damnation; Divine Providence 1874 General Will of God's Grace; Reconciliation, Redemption of the Human Race 1875 Justification by Grace; Regeneration and Sanctification 1876 Means of Grace; Conversion 1877 Election of Grace I 1879 Election of Grace II 1880 Election of Grace III 1882 Invocation and Worship of God 1883 Obedience to Worldly and Churchly Authorities 1885 Obedience to Worldly and Secular Authorities 1886 Obedience to Worldly and Household Authorities