# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1855_S381
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Miscellaneous Church News. 381

forms of the Church's communal life have for the Church's heavenly goal, blessedness, could easily see in the concept of the invisible Church nothing but the Eldorado of an unbound sentimental Christianity, not a bulwark of Protestantism, going under. So it appeared to be of importance, in the third and fourth theses, to bring out the connection between the visible and the invisible Church.

Finally, after the controversies at the last conference concerning the position of the Lutheran Church toward the church universal, which had carried over into the negotiations at Rothenmoor, it appeared necessary to subject this point too, which is chiefly a practical one, to a serious consideration. The fourth, fifth, and sixth theses relate to this."

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Miscellaneous Church News.

The "Definite Platform." From the "Ev. Lutheran" of Springfield we learn that the "English Synod of Ohio," when it was assembled on October 18–23, adopted the notorious new "Recension" of the Augsburg Confession as a definite Synodical Platform, with opposition from only one vote. This is now the third synod that has declared that new doctrinal basis to be its own. — The same paper reports that, by contrast, the English District Synod of Ohio, when it assembled at the beginning of November, unanimously condemned the Platform.

Statistics. Connected with the so-called Lutheran General Synod there presently stand 23 District Synods with 653 ministers and 1,391 congregations. By contrast, 10 synods calling themselves Lutheran, with 808 ministers and 473 congregations, are not united with it.

The "Religious Messenger." This paper, appearing in Milford, Bucks Co., Pa., is the organ of the Mennonites there. In its latest number (of October 29) the editor, Pastor Oberholtzer, reports that the paper must "cease for the present time for want of due support," and in doing so makes the following remarkable admission: "When a communion has adopted nothing definitely fixed concerning every point of doctrine, it is difficult to publish a paper to the satisfaction of all, since too many different views are present within it."

The Jews in America have recently held a convention in Cleveland, Ohio, through some twenty-odd delegates, rabbis and laymen, from various parts of the Union, at which, for the purpose of an organic union of the Jews in the United States, it was resolved, among other things,