# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1855_S309
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Grand Duchy of Baden. 309

with the true sense and spirit of Scripture, and will also protect and preserve the rights of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. So truly help me God!" The reporter, v. Erdmannsdorf, setting these two formulas side by side, remarked: "You see, then, gentlemen, that the punctum saliens is missing. This is exactly the same case as if a newly entering minister were to leave out the formula: ""I swear to God to keep faithful the constitution of the state."" What an outcry would arise! Is a lesser outcry to arise in the Church?" A pressing and general demand was accordingly made, with great emphasis, for the restitution of the original wording. Interesting in this connection was the notice given by Dr. Großmann, that the great majority of the land's Ephors (superintendents) had already addressed to the Ministry, on this matter, a request for the restoration of the status quo before the year 1848.

To the motion, finally, of the Second Chamber, that the Ministry withdraw the ordinance by which the Saxon Church and School Gazette had been recommended to the clergy of the land, the First Chamber did not accede. Unfortunately, however, this most valuable and interesting paper, since the material support hitherto granted to it has been withdrawn, can from now on appear only in a single weekly number, whereas before it had appeared twice a week. Yet the articles that will now fill the paper are to make up in intension what they will lack, for want of space, in extension.

Grand Duchy of Baden.

The following we take from the Hengstenberg Evangelical Church Gazette of June 30 of this year:

Pastor Haag, recently dismissed, allegedly for an "extreme Lutheran tendency," or, to make use of the official word from an address to the congregation of Ispringen on the part of the Evangelical Supreme Church Council, for disobedience, *) was, before Pentecost, expelled by the police from the congregation of Ispringen to his birthplace of Karlsruhe, because at the request of his adherents he had on a few occasions held Lutheran services in public places. He followed, and makes no secret of the fact, the counsel of the

*) The Karlsruhe Gazette reports the following on this, among other things: "The reason why Pastor Haag has been dismissed from his office does not lie in the fact that he professes the Lutheran doctrine of the Lord's Supper; for this doctrine is not forbidden in our United Evangelical Church either, etc. The reason lies rather in the fact that he has rendered no obedience to the definitely prescribed laws and ordinances of our Church and to the corresponding directive of his ecclesiastical superiors, and has even declared that he will not do so in the future either, but intends, should he ever change his post, to proceed still more decidedly according to his own principles."