# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1855_S32
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32 Reception of Our Reply, etc.

[illegible] is practiced. Since the gentlemen report in their postscript that the situation is likewise so in the Lordship of Jever, where formerly such strict measures were not taken and where, because of daily intercourse, commerce, and dealings, this cannot readily be avoided, and that it is also customary in the neighboring County of Oldenburg, etc., we do not doubt that the theologians of that place will know how to accommodate themselves in this case so that, alongside the consciences of the people, the common peace of the fatherland and the proper devotion of the subjects toward the authorities may also be preserved. This we ought not withhold from the gentlemen as the requested answer; and hereby commend them to the protection of the Most High. Dated at Wittenberg, May 18, in the year of Christ 1624.”

(See: Consilia theologica Witebergensia, that is, Wittenberg Spiritual Counsels, etc., issued by the theological faculty there, then consisting of Calov, Meisner, Quenstedt, and Deutschmann. Frankfurt am Main, 1664. Part II, fols. 128–129.)

Reception of Our Reply

(to the Letter of Admonition from the Leipzig Conference) in Germany.

In the “Sächsisches Kirchen- und Schulblatt” of Prof. Dr. Kahnis, across three issues from November of last year, there is a detailed review of our reply published in “Der Lutheraner,” vol. 10, nos. 24 and 25, and issued in Germany in pamphlet form (published by B. G. Teubner in Leipzig). The review concludes with the words: “In place of a special recommendation, let the following twofold observation suffice for the readers of the Kirchen- und Schulblatt: first, that the aforementioned document presents an answer, in thesi and in praxi, to the much-debated question of church and ministry, and one that accords with our Lutheran church doctrine; second, that it is a testimony from a fellowship consisting in large part of our Saxon brethren.” — The reviewer is Mr. R. Neubert, candidate for the preaching ministry in Leipzig, a distinguished student of the former Professor Dr. Harleß and, later, for a time, of Professor Kahnis at the university of that city.