# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1855_S217
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The Sermon Outlines. 217

recounts it. For it may not occur to a hasty or prejudiced reader that one and the same fact may be recounted about a man in order to preserve his honor by excusing it, or to deprive him of his honor by appealing to it; that Noah’s drunkenness may be mentioned with different intentions and by children of different spirits. The “Lutherische Zeitschrift” cites Luther’s statement about Cicero after quoting from the Large Catechism the passage in which he says that heathens, etc., remain under eternal wrath and condemnation if they do not have the Lord Christ; and it does so in order to point out that although Luther spoke this way “once” at table, his words were nevertheless fundamentally different from Zwinglian doctrine, which bases its hope for the salvation of the heathen on the light of nature, since he held fast to the doctrine of grace alone that saves. The Kirchenfreund, however, cited that statement of Luther so that Luther might not appear quite as strictly Lutheran as the so-called Old Lutherans, but at least as lax as self-styled Lutheran preachers who fraternize now with the Reformed and now with Lutherans, just as they please or as their spirit prompts them; for the Kirchenfreund rejoices in this “inconsistency,” or, as it prefers to call it, Luther’s “freedom,” while “Auch ein Lutheraner” even thanks God for it; for now it is entirely comprehensible to them how he, Luther, “conducted the controversy over the Lord’s Supper with such energy and with his whole soul,” that is, that Luther, who “made use of great freedom” and was at times “inconsistent,” did not really take the controversy over the Lord’s Supper so seriously.

Thus, through his article, the correspondent of the “Luth. Herold” has at least accomplished this much: he proves that “Lehre und Wehre” did not say too much when it spoke of more than one fox against whom the chicks should indeed be on their guard; and he will not take it amiss if, following his own guidance, we understand the signature “Auch ein Lutheraner” to mean: Also a Fox.

(Submitted by Th. Brohm.)

“The Sermon Outlines.”

We are pleased to announce that the first issue of the recently announced 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, has already appeared. It contains the outlines on the Gospel readings from the first through