# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1855_S64
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64 New Peace Proposal.

worthy collection of Luther's works is the Jena edition, from the years
1555–1558, in 8 folio volumes, containing Luther's German writings, to
which belong also the two supplementary volumes printed in Eisleben, in
folio, from the years 1564–1565. In this edition too, however, the
postils, the Table Talk, and the books originally written in Latin are
lacking, the latter having appeared in a separate edition, likewise at
Jena, 1556–1558, in 4 folio volumes. — The edition to be recommended
last is the earliest to appear, the German Wittenberg edition, in 12
folio volumes, from the years 1539–1558. It is, to be sure, in some
respects more complete than the Jena edition, for it contains the
principal Latin works in German translation; but it contains a few,
though not substantial, omissions made for the purpose of falsifying
doctrine.*) In Wittenberg, moreover, Luther's Latin works were also
issued separately, in the years 1545–1558, in 7 folio volumes. Our final
counsel is this: that those who cannot afford one of the more costly
editions of Luther's works should nevertheless not fail to obtain either
the Altenburg, or the Wittenberg, or the Jena edition, since what is
lacking in them can gradually be supplemented by the purchase of
individual volumes of the Erlangen edition.
(To be continued.)

New Peace Proposal.

In the issue of the "Informatorium" of February 1 of this year there is
found a so-called "reluctantly rendered correction of the answer of the
president of the Synod of Missouri to the exhortations addressed to it by
the Leipzig and Fürth Conference, together with a renewed offer of
Christian reconciliation," signed "by order" by Pastor von Rohr.
And indeed the "correction" closes with the very words: "May the
merciful God bless this peace offer," etc. But the opening words of this
supposed instrument of peace are the words chosen as its motto from
Psalm 4:3: "Dear lords, how long shall my honor be defiled? How can you
love vanity so, and lies so gladly?" — We as editors believe that, by
communicating this in regard to that document, we have done our duty.
Beginning and end are too characteristic for the reader not to be able,
from them alone, to discern for himself the spirit that pervades the
whole document.

*) Some minor inaccuracies have, incidentally, also crept into the Jena
edition as well; the most significant of these is an incorrect account of
Luther's negotiations with Carlstadt at Orlamünde, which was probably
composed by someone ill-disposed toward him. Otherwise these
inaccuracies, both in the Wittenberg and in the Jena edition, have been
made worse by the publishers, out of professional jealousy toward one
another, than they actually are.