# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1855_S303
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Kingdom of Saxony. 303

of presentation, which does indeed belong among the sad signs of the times. Our literature is entering its Alexandrian epoch. — In the conceptual working-out of the dogmas, the scholasticism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries displayed a virtuosity that will forever remain exemplary, whose results no true dogmatics may neglect. That de Wette, Hase, Schmid, Schweizer, Schneckenburger, and others have directed the gaze of an age so little schooled in dogmatic concepts toward the wondrous edifice of this old dogmatics has been of true and lasting benefit to dogmatic study. Naturally it cannot be the goal of our dogmatics to return to every determination of that scholasticism. *) But the claim that every Protestant dogmatician should pass through their school, and that their conceptual determinations form the foundation for every dogmatic development, is one these faithful workers have earned for themselves ... As in the history of dogma, so too in the dogmatics of our time the most solid work is to be sought not in textbooks but in monographs. Comprehensive presentations of the stature that Gerhard, Quenstedt, Calov, and Hollatz possessed in the seventeenth century, dogmatic study will, by all appearances, not produce again for a long time." — We have given these citations after having discussed only Gerhard's Loci, since with regard to our dogmaticians and to Gerhard we believe we may make our own the Ciceronian saying "Plato mihi unus instar est omnium."

(To be continued.)

Kingdom of Saxony.

Having, in the September number, communicated something of the proceedings on ecclesiastical affairs at this year's Saxon Diet in the Second Chamber — proceedings that were for the most part not exactly heartening — we now share with our readers something of the proceedings called forth by those in the First Chamber, which, by contrast, may well be fit to awaken a well-founded hope for a favorable development of the ecclesiastical condition of Saxony.

First, the reporting deputation, in response to the statements made in the Second Chamber, issued the following declaration: "Manifold misgivings and reproaches have been voiced concerning the manner in which the Ministry conducts its position as the supreme authority of the Lutheran Church. In answer to this the deputation now gives the following decla-

*) Might the highly esteemed gentleman only no longer number [scholastic dogmatics] among the things to be subtracted more than these his own words indicate — who would not then agree with him entirely?