# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1855_S282
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282 New Literature.

let us be edified by the bringing in of such new strength, in our
holy Lutheran faith.
(Pilger aus Sachsen.)

Prussian-Lutheran Church. A Prussian Lutheran writes,
under the date of the 18th of June of this year, to our dear Präses, among other things, the following: "Since you, dear brother, read the Kirchenblatt, I have nothing especially new to relate to you. Yet this much I can write, that the state shows itself little favorable toward us and certainly regrets having given us, in the year 1845, a concession that secures us a rightful standing. But what right is secured against wrong, and it could easily happen that with a change of government our situation becomes a very difficult one, since the probable heir to the throne is, as is well known, anything but well disposed toward us! But perhaps hard cases are necessary for us, so that we do not fall asleep. And the longer one lives in the kingdom of God on earth, and comes to know and recognize it by observing it, the more one becomes convinced that the Lord alone sustains this kingdom, and that the end of the kingdom of grace on earth is to lead souls out of this vale of misery into the kingdom of glory." May this brief notice of the threatening condition of our dear brethren in Prussia move very many to fervent intercession.

New Literature.

Just now appeared, and available in all bookshops of Germany:
History of the Reformation

by
Heinr. Ernst Ferd. Guericke,
Doctor and Professor of Theology at Halle.
large octavo, paperbound, 16 sheets. Price 20 Silbergroschen.

We announce this new work even before we ourselves have had it in hand, since the author and his church-historical work stand surety for the excellence also of this newly appeared work, treating so interesting a portion of church history in particular. The publishing house, Heinrich Schindler in Berlin, announces the book as follows: "The need for a history of the Reformation that, for all its scholarly character, is nevertheless useful for the layman as well, and generally accessible through a modest price, is certainly more than satisfied by the appearance of the above work, an excerpt from the author's widely circulated Handbook of Church History. It is especially recommended for the coming three-hundredth-year jubilee celebration of the Peace of Augsburg."