# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1855_S318
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318 American Lutheran Church.

...Saxon Church and School Paper of June 8, introduced as follows: "It is known to many that this publication arose out of a controversy which, in Germany, found its personal focal points in Löhe and Höfling, but in America separates the Missouri Synod from the Buffalo Synod. One must acknowledge that a more fitting means of bringing the two parties to an understanding with one another could not have been found than the one adopted here: namely, to have the decisive passages from Scripture, the Symbolical Books, and the dogmaticians of the old Church printed as proof-texts for brief theses placed at the head. Theses and proof-texts mutually confirm one another. It lies in the nature of the case that contending parties always seek to carry their disputes into history. It was, then, high time to say to both parties, by documentary evidence: This is where you stand with regard to the foundations of our Church's faith. And for those, too, who stand outside this controversy, this collection of passages, laid out with diligence and sound judgment — passages which even the learned do not always have readily at hand — is as instructive as it is edifying." Here follows the printing of the Theses.

Lutz. Of this man, at one time often spoken of, who from a Roman priest became a Lutheran preacher, but afterward turned back to the Roman Church, the "Katholische Kirchenzeitung" [Catholic Church Paper] writes, according to a report from Augsburg of July 20: "Our most reverend episcopal Ordinariate has removed the Reverend Dean Lutz from his deanery (in Oberroth). — It is in itself already strange," the report continues, "that such a man, who had already once fallen away from the Church, should ever have been made a dean at all! Herr Lutz is a Pietist, or, as they are called there, a pseudo-mystic, and it now appears that a limit is to be set to his mischief." According to another report, Lutz is said to have been found to be the author of several Irvingian writings, the reading and circulation of which have been forbidden by the episcopal Ordinariate in Augsburg.

American Lutheran Church.

On September 6 of this year the Wittenberg Synod of Ohio assembled and adopted, among other things, the following resolutions:

"Whereas the General Synod of the American Lutheran Church, about a quarter-century ago, in the constitution of its theological seminary and in the synodical order for district synods, again introduced a limited recognition of the Augsburg Confession at the ordination or licensing of ministers, without specifying more closely the doctrines to be excepted, other than by the description that these were not fundamental doctrines of the holy