# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1856_S9
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Prophecy from History.                    9

believe in the Divine, and so both are inseparably united; the religion of the future is found, the Union accomplished, all doubts and creeds outlived. Should this not be entirely clear to anyone, let him consider that this sentence is a prophetic one, and such are usually somewhat obscure. The clever words themselves run thus: "Scripture and reason will outlive not only all doubt, but also all creeds, in the true faith in the Divine, which binds these two pillars together in inseparable unity."

Much has already been thought and said about the relationship of church and state; Bunsen too contributes his mite: "the state, as a people governed by law, and the church, as an organically free congregation of the whole, together constitute the true body of God, and are the accomplished incarnation." Truly, distinguished, interesting, and clever indeed.

Finally, one more sample of the modern, elegant, smooth-flowing Bunsenian style, which must particularly please Herr Professor Schaff, who, as a man of good taste, feels himself so deeply offended by "that endlessly convoluted, ponderous sentence-construction which disfigures Guericke's writings." We do not wish to praise Guericke's style — it is true one must sometimes puzzle it out — but the trouble taken is every time fully repaid by the rich content. But who repays us for the labor of studying the following clever concatenation of phrases? What is the sense of these many words? "The spirit, wrestling toward the infinite, is directed to the bounds of reality by the needs of the present, fertilized by love for the brethren and for the fatherland, and for that common ground out of which Christian society, and thus, in its highest expression, the Christian state and the legal church, proceeds." — "O shades of cool-headed thinking!" B. —

Prophecy from History.

"To the generations to come it may perhaps not appear a matter of chance, that the roar of the cannon of the Castel Sant'Angelo at the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary mingled with that of Sebastopol. There exists a secret connection, as between man and earth in general, so in particular between the womb that bore the Lord and the earth that received His corpse. Out of the one He came forth in weakness, to become the Mediator and Savior of poor sinners; out of the other, as the Lord of heaven and of earth, to bring peace to the children of God who, in meekness, are to possess the earth with Him. Was not that virgin tomb of Joseph also (John 19:41), where the Lord was laid, likewise a part of the earth which the Lord had cursed for sin's sake? Yes — and therefore just as little can peace, as