# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1855_S382
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382 Miscellaneous Church News.

resolved: "Whoever denies the divinity of the Bible of the Old Testament and does not acknowledge the Talmud as the lawful exposition of the word of God, is no Jew." The institution of synods is to be called back into life.

Göttingen. Professor Schöberlein of Heidelberg (formerly a Repetent in Erlangen) has been called to one of the vacant positions in the theological faculty at Göttingen. The new Göttingen professor thus comes from Baden, from the Union, and as an active promoter of it. A sad sign for Hanover! The gap arising from the departure of the now Kirchenrath Redepennig to Ilfeld remains for the present unfilled. To the three extraordinary professors a fourth has now been added in the person of the Repetent Köstlin of Tübingen, who has also been appointed second university preacher. He is the author of the fine writings on the Church.

The Missouri Synod. Through the editor of the "Lutheran Village Church Gazette" we learn that two pastors named Grätz and Romanowsky have most recently left the Missouri Synod and gone over to the Buffalo Synod. Wherever can Pastor Dietrich have gotten this strange report? A Mr. Grätz was never a "Missourian," and a Mr. Romanowsky has for many years now no longer been one, and was in the meantime — we do not know what sort of preacher. Mr. Dietrich rejoices greatly over the "manly bearing" of these supposed Missourians, and thanks God that at last "the beginning of something better, at least, seems to have come."

Denmark. We find the following in the "Village Church Gazette": "In Denmark the great enemy of the Germans, Grundtvig, together with his powerful party, is striving for a complete separation of the Danish Church from the Lutheran confession: the wish is to be only Danish, even in religion — and Danish means teaching according to the old man. The Church's ordinances have already been greatly loosened by this party. One sees that the world is everywhere ripe for popery, and stands in need of it."

Grand Duchy of Hesse. "The ninth Sunday after Trinity 1855," writes the "Freimund," "on which one preaches on the unjust steward, was in Höchst on the Nidder a day of justice. For Pastor Bingmann there was, by the just judgment of our prince and lord, on this day again inducted into his office by the superintendent, from which the unjust decree of the Grand Ducal Ministry at Darmstadt had removed him, because he refused to officiate in united congregations (that is, because he declared that he would not be a man without conscience), and because he had, with the word of God, in all due faithfulness, rebuked Satan's seduction at the seminary in Friedberg." A rare case indeed!

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