# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1855_S65
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Lehre und Wehre. [Doctrine and Defense.]

Volume I. March 1855. No. 3.

(Submitted by Pastor Wyneken.)
A Statement by the Reverend Pastor Löhe
together with

Some Remarks Appended to It.

The twelfth number of the "Kirchliches Informatorium" carries the
following essay by the Reverend Pastor Löhe, from his "Kirchliche
Mittheilungen" [Church Communications], No. 8, 1854, which seems to me
worth reprinting in this journal; partly because it shows us how our
papers are read over there, and also because Pastor Löhe expresses in it
his opinion of the difference between our direction and his own. Löhe's
essay reads as follows:

The Most Recently Arrived Numbers of the "Lutheraner"
Nos. 22–26 of the Tenth Volume.

Whoever even glances briefly at these most recent numbers of the
"Lutheraner" quickly finds the difference between the American-Lutheran
and the German-Lutheran direction. This difference, however, is so
significant that it well deserves to be pointed out and highlighted a
little in this paper as well. We would gladly have a good deal reprinted
from the papers named, especially since they touch very closely upon the
editors of this paper and the friends associated with them; but we had to
restrain ourselves — because our little paper would be used up on all
twelve numbers if we wished to communicate even just, for example, the
answer of our American brethren to the Leipzig Conference's tract.
Perhaps the Leipzig Conference will communicate, in some organ or other,
the answer given to it.

No. 22 gives Harleß's theses on church and office, naturally with the
triumph that our American friends may well feel at the essentially
identical conviction of a man so highly placed in the church.

The paper further contains an essay entitled "Light and Shadow Sides of
the Lutheran Church in Germany." We take the liberty of reprinting the
beginning of the essay.

"If we wish here, first of all, to give notice that now, in the Lutheran
Church of our old homeland, despite all the misery of our time, there is
more

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