# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1855_S66
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66 A Statement by the Reverend Pastor Löhe's, etc.

more and more bright sides coming to the fore, we by no means proceed
from the principle held by certain theologians here, that peace and
amicability among theologians with respect to doctrinal differences is a
bright side of a church. Rather, we count it precisely among the
increasingly prominent bright sides of the church of our fatherland that
that very peace, that amicability, that shrinking from a struggle which
disturbingly opposes the comfort and coziness of living, eating, and
drinking together, is now almost everywhere beginning to vanish over
there as well. But the most beautiful bright side appears to us to be
this: that in Germany people are now coming more and more to the insight
that precisely on the part of those who have hitherto passed for the
representatives of Lutheran orthodoxy, the model of the old Lutheran
doctrine is being gradually abandoned and its direction is turning toward
Rome, and that, in opposition to this, people are now entering the lists
and, regardless of what high authorities of the present day are thereby
attacked, are fighting ever more resolutely for the endangered, precious
inheritance of the fathers."

Finally, the paper also contains an essay: "Dr. Rudelbach on
Ordination. Yet Another Shadow Side of the German-Lutheran
Church." Characteristic of this essay is the following passage.

"However regrettable it now is that Dr. Rudelbach himself has publicly
made known that he no longer wishes to be counted among the theologians
who confess, without reservation or restriction, the whole doctrine laid
down in the confessions of our church, God is nevertheless to be praised
that this dear man, from whom perhaps all the more significant
theologians of our church have learned, has preserved his ever-proven
uprightness and sincerity, and has therefore disdained, by dishonest arts
of interpretation, to twist the sense of our symbols, to read his own
views into them, and thereby only bring about ever greater confusion."

No. 23 contains an essay by P. Hoyer on rhythmic singing in the Christian
church; further, an essay "On the History of the Conference Held at
Leipzig on the 2nd of August of Last Year." This is an extract of a
German letter which shows "that neither was the voice of the Conference
also the voice of Lutheran Germany; nor did all members of the
Conference who did not formally protest thereby also assent; nor,
finally, did all members of the Conference who did assent do so as a
result of a false doctrine of church and office." After this essay
follows a shorter one under the title "Correction," which is reprinted
from Ehler's Kirchenblatt, and which denies an understanding of the
negotiations conducted at Breslau with Grabau and von Rohr — an
understanding which the brethren named do not wish to have attributed to
them.

The double number, Nos. 24 and 25, contains, first, the "Answer to That
Directed by the Leipzig Conference to the Synod of Missouri,