After the exile of Martin Stephan, the Lutheran minister who brought the Saxons to Missouri, the group was struggling to find a reason to stay. They had all followed a fraud from Germany to America and many were thinking about going back. But, in their moment of need, CFW Walther stood up and reminded the group that faith resides in a people and not in a place, convincing the Saxons to stay in Missouri.
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was a German-American Lutheran minister in Missouri. In Germany, C.F.W. Walther became a Lutheran minister and through his divinity studies he met Martin Stephan. Stephan played a pivotal role in the Saxon immigration to Missouri.