# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1856_S27
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Miscellaneous Church News. 27

The work under discussion is full of analogies, and the reader is
presented with whole series of relations. The author thereby doubtless
displays the gift of wit, or richness of spirit, to a high degree, and it is
certain that this gift can not only provide great intellectual enjoyment but,
under the control of the faculty of judgment, can also contribute much to
the discovery of truth. On the other hand, however, it can also lead one
away from truth; the mind then flutters, like a butterfly, from flower to
flower, unconcerned whether they belong together by their nature or not.
And the pleasure felt in doing so can easily be mistaken for the actual
knowledge of truth that this affords, and thereby only strengthen error.
Incidentally, there is much of individual interest in the book, and its
language is on the whole quite free of the reproach of obscurity often, and
rightly, brought against writings of a similar character — except where the
subject matter itself did not admit of clarity. A. B.

Miscellaneous Church News.

Spain. In the New York "Katholische Kirchenzeitung" it is reported, following a
periodical published at Seville, that among the "acts of violence by the government"
carried out in Spain in recent months are also listed: "The toleration of Protestantism
at Seville and Malaga; the expulsion of the Jesuits from Loyola; the means employed in
Spain in favor of Protestant propaganda," etc.

Gettysburg. In the "Lutheran Observer" of Nov. 30 of last year, a correspondent
writes from there, among other things, the following: "The theological seminary gives a
discouraging report, particularly with respect to the number of students, when we
consider the pressing and growing need of laborers in every district of the Church. Last
winter there were 25 students there; this term there are only nine, and one more is
expected in a week or two. The present junior class has only three. Our German
professor will not take up his office before next summer's term, so that this winter we
shall have no Germans at all in either of the institutions."

The Allegheny Synod. This synod held its annual meeting on Oct. 11 of last
year, and the following days. A Mr. John Ph. Hens reports on this in the "Luth.
Zeitschrift" of Mr. P. Brobst's in Allentown, Pa., among other things, as follows: "On
Monday morning the synod assembled again, where, among other business, a motion
was also brought forward to alter certain articles in the Augsburg Confession, but it
was this time postponed until the session of the next synod." — These good gentlemen
ought to consider that with their proposed alteration of the Augsburg Confession they
are a few years too late: since the Augsburg Confession, as is well known, has already
been handed over to the Emperor, the matter can by no means now be undone. Whoever
alters this confession then no longer has the Augsburg one, at any rate. Perhaps it
might be of service to these gentlemen to know that there also exists an Augsburg
Confession by Zwingli. This one they would perhaps not need to alter; were they to
adopt this one, they would then have an altered Augsburg Confession, and would still
be spared the trouble of altering it themselves. The Zwinglian Augsburg Confession is
to be found in E. S. Cyprian's Unterricht von kirchlicher Vereinigung, a truly
delightful book from the year 1726 (2nd ed.).