# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1855_S317
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Miscellaneous Church News. 317

...life and freshness within them. Churches and schoolhouses have been erected, and on such occasions the willingness of individual church members to give has also proven itself in a gratifying way. Thus, in one congregation, an old woman died last year who bequeathed over 3000 thalers to churches and a school! The number of parishes amounts, in round numbers, to 50, with approximately 45,000 to 46,000 members."

A Curious Confusion. The Pilger aus Sachsen [Pilgrim from Saxony] gives notice that on July 11 the pastoral conference in the Muldenthal will assemble at the parsonage in Mühlau and will make the subject of discussion "the recently advanced assertion": "The Lutherans judge the Symbols not by Scripture, but Scripture by the Symbols." Who, then, can have recently put forward this peculiar assertion?

Baden. Pastor Eichhorn writes the following in the Prussian Lutheran Church Paper of July 15: "It has become known through the public papers that Pastor Haag of Ispringen, near Pforzheim, has been dismissed from his office. Immediately after his removal, a large number of former congregation members and outsiders gathered around Pastor Haag — it is said the number reached 500. With these he held worship in the open, in the woods, and administered to them the Holy Supper. — He also, in the meantime, applied together with these for admission to us" (the Lutherans who had already voluntarily withdrawn from the Union Church of Baden); "but we could not receive him — as yet." — Pastor Haag, namely, has followed the principle of not giving up the office entrusted to him by God at Ispringen until he should be driven from it by force, even though the congregation there stood under an imposed Union church government, whereas Pastor Eichhorn had withdrawn without waiting to be expelled. This difference of conviction and of course of action has for some time now given rise to friction between the two dear men, the sad consequence of which is the refusal of an immediate reception of Haag and his congregation into the fellowship of the Lutherans of Baden who withdrew earlier. To be sure, the Union authorities of Baden now say that the faithful Haag was removed not for the sake of his Lutheran faith, but on account of disobedience — but this language we already know from the history of the persecutions of the Christians by Jews and heathen. These, too, never said that they threw the Christians to the wild beasts for their piety, but rather for their disobedience.

Hesse-Cassel. According to report, says an exchange paper of August 15, Dr. Vilmar, hitherto Consistorial Councillor and referent in the Ministry of the Interior, has been appointed General Superintendent.

"The Voice of Our Church on the Question of Church and Ministry." This publication, issued by our synod, is treated in the