# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1855_S89
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The Modified Confession to the Symbols. 89

(p. 14), may seek to neutralize by way of the addition (pp. 18—20) of fundamental oppositions which, however shallowly they may be sketched here, still cannot in this way conceal the glaring divergence of the one, own party from the letter and spirit of the symbols—least of all through the premature shout of victory on p. 18, and the remark (all too flattering to the reviewer) that "the controversy is being conducted in Germany, with perhaps the exception of Professors Höfling and Guericke, with all calm and dignity?" — Certainly, even despite this deep discrepancy within its own camp, right will remain right and will triumph in the end. But can it be held against the weary fighter if he too would gladly have wished already to share in the joy of victory, and is anything else to be expected, under the circumstances now prevailing, than that, even if pseudo-Lutheranism should now already triumph locally—a joy and jubilation we shall never share—only after long and heavy struggles will a purely Lutheran Gloria one day resound from child or child's child? — Oh, how quickly, how pitifully it is forgotten that "there is no longer a servant, but nothing but children" (Gal. 4:7), and "how blessed we once were"! (Gal. 4:15). — "But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another" (Gal. 5:15). (G.)

2. L. A. Petri, An Examination of the Göttingen Memorial on Behalf of Evangelical Freedom of Doctrine. Hanover (Hahn) 1854. 55 pp. 8vo.

Only after the writing discussed in the preceding article had been reviewed by us did that of Dr. Petri also come to our notice—one which treats exactly the same subject on exactly the same occasion, and which discusses every relevant point with such calm, circumspection, and precision that we are eager to see how the Göttingen faculty will attempt to extricate itself from the nets and snares. Unfortunately, here too the question of the ministry is the Achilles' heel of the esteemed author, which manifestly sets him at odds with himself and breaks his mightiest weapon. However fine and true it is, what he says about the necessary standing firm in the evangelical and evangelical-Lutheran principle, about the inner boundness to the confessionally attested facts of salvation and fundamental truths (p. 35), etc., it is just as untrue that the Puseyite, crypto-Catholic concept of the ministry to which he professes touches the essence of the Lutheran principle, the confessionally attested fundamental truths, any less than, for example, the article concerning the true body and blood of the Lord in the sacrament does; indeed, if the latter, according to the division of the Smalcald Articles, belongs among the propositions that can still be negotiated with our opponents, then the former is a purely and utterly rejected papacy in principle—a "God rebuke thee, Satan" (cf. p. 51), outright, contending against the royal fundamental article of justification—and the Göttingen men are not wrong when they regard an otherwise Lutheran fellowship that holds fast to that concept of the ministry not as a Lutheran "church," but merely as a Lutheran "party." Whether few or