# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1855_S348
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348 Miscellaneous Church News.

further down the same author says: "How strangely, in our days, the blindest unbelief pairs itself with superstition regarding ghostly visions, as well as with signs and announcements of fortune-telling spirits! Yet one dreadful trait remains common to these various tendencies of our age: the deification (so-called rehabilitation) of the flesh, its release from all divine and human discipline and order, in the train of a blaspheming of everything that is holy and divine. These are birds that fly only by night."

Praise be to the Lord that this venerable old man has recognized his former error this side of the grave and confessed it to Christendom. Would that thereby the offense might also be checked which his portrayal of demonic workings as manifestations of the world of good spirits has caused. Would that through the above confession many in general might come to their senses who, still lacking every gift for testing the spirits, imagine they will find, in a Jung-Stilling "theory of spirit-lore," in Oetingerian fancies, or indeed in something still more uncanny honored with the name magnetism, somnambulism, and the like, special disclosures of divine and natural powers and higher wisdom in ghost-haunting.

Miscellaneous Church News.

Pastor Haag. Further reports concerning him we take from "Freimund," where among other things we read the following: "Harsh police measures have gradually been taken against Pastor Haag and against his family; among other things, in the town of Ispringen everyone was threatened with a fine of 25 florins who should give him lodging in his house. All petitions for recognition of Haag as the (Lutheran?) pastor of the seceders were simply filed away and given no further consideration; his family was even threatened with expulsion under heavy fines should they not immediately remove themselves from the town, and only the onset of his wife's illness brought about a suspension of this measure. — Pastor Haag sought to meet, in more distant places, with those who wished to call him as their pastor, but everywhere lurking gendarmes stood in his way. From all this Pastor Haag has now at a single stroke escaped, in that he has accepted an appointment in Prussia. A local paper just now brings the following report: "'Pastor Haag has entered upon the office of inspector at the Lutheran mission institute in Berlin.'" *) — New confusion! In united Berlin there is nowhere to be found a Lutheran mission institute. The two mission institutes located in Berlin stand in the union of the Prussian united territorial church, partake in it of the holy Supper, and stand under uni-

*) According to the Preuß. luth. Kirchenblatt, Haag is said to have become a missionary itinerant preacher instead.