# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1856_S5
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Some Glosses on Bunsen's Aphorisms and His "Position and Task," etc.                    5

salutary, and would surely, above all, bring the incomparable blessing that the struggle — still necessary, to be sure, again and again even within our own church — would take on the character of a mutual rivalry among brethren for the faithful preservation of the precious treasure of purity of doctrine and unity, and would keep that character.

We forbear, so as not to anticipate the brethren, from expressing ourselves further on the proposal here made. Commending the matter to the unseen Lord and Head of the church, we now wait to hear — whether in private letters or by means of our church papers — the opinion of those who deem the matter worthy of their consideration and discussion, as to the subjects, form, time, place, etc., of such joint deliberations. We remark only, further, that the meetings and deliberations, however public, would of course be only of a private character, and that all present, without thereby intending any representation of their respective synods, should take part only in their own persons.

(Contributed.)
Some Glosses on Bunsen's Aphorisms and His
"Position and Task of the German Nation and
Theology." *)

We bush-pastors out west unfortunately see only rarely anything of the extraordinary flashes of intellect from the important, newest theological literature; the costly procurement of the material necessary for that, the many daily labors and struggles of our calling, keep us somewhat out of the current. Time, with its light, goes on ahead of us, and we remain sitting in the half-dark; and when a new theological rocket then goes up, one cannot quite find one's bearings in the glare at first — one does not know whether it is a distress signal or a signal of joy. — Now and then the "Kirchenfreund" brings us something of the newest and best, and from it one of us out here profits as well. In the June number of 1853, Professor Schaff reviews Dr. Bunsen's (the Prussian envoy to London's) "Hippolytus and His Age," calling it "one of the most significant productions of the newest theological literature," and then gives his "Aphorisms from the Philosophy of History," and in the following numbers an excerpt from the "extremely interesting" preface to the German edition of the same work, namely "The Position and Task of the German Nation and Theology." — Now, it strikes me as odd, to see something of the old rev-

*) This article had already been in our hands for more than a year. Through an oversight it has remained unpublished until now. It is probably still not without interest and profit for our readers, even now. May the esteemed author forgive us our negligence, and not avenge it by withholding further contributions to our journal!
— The Editors of Lehre und Wehre.