# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1855_S192
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

192 News.

we do not know; human rights have become so great that they have swallowed up not only the rights of the citizen but also the rights of God. Now, if there are “people” who acknowledge no God and consequently no divine right or law, and consequently no conscience toward God, but only the unconditional freedom of the human spirit, and if these “people” can neither be expelled nor imprisoned, the predicament may become serious. For the church, it can ultimately only be salutary that rationalism advances to its final consequence and dies from it. For the honest rationalists, who are prisoners only of their intellect, thereby recognize the end of their path and turn back; but the avowed ones possess no lasting power of propagation. They may sweep along others of their own kind, but they produce nothing enduring, because nothing comes from nothing. (Petri’s Zeitblatt.)

Death Notice.

As we learn from Dr. Petri’s “Zeitblatt,” Abbot and Professor Dr. Lücke died in Göttingen on February 14 of this year.

Notice
to the Subscribers to the

Sermon Outlines
on the Sunday and Festival Gospel Readings,
compiled from Dr. Luther’s sermons and expositions
by E. G. W. Keyl,
Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul’s Church in Baltimore.

When the manuscript for the first issue came into my hands, it became apparent that, instead of 32 octavo pages, it would more likely amount to 64, and that I therefore could not very well supply it at 15 cents per issue unless I had had prospects of selling 1,000 copies at once. But since only a few orders had been placed for it, and since I also had other works in production, so that I could not begin the first issue by the appointed time, I preferred to suggest to Pastor Keyl that it might be better to begin with the church year and then publish the issues in sequence. If, however, it should be considered advisable to begin sooner and the prospects are favorable, I am still prepared to make a start. As soon as I receive Pastor Keyl’s reply, I will report further on the matter.

May 15, 1855.                                      H. Ludwig.