# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1856_S31
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Miscellaneous church news. 31

was sent to all the preachers of the province for their consideration, and this and the individual items were, after an explanatory introduction by the reporter, taken up one by one at the conference and voted upon. The whole was then adopted by the assembly as a (though not strictly binding) norm for our province, and it was resolved that, after inquiry had been made of the Royal Consistory as to whether anything stood in the way of its introduction, the matter should be given over to print. Pastor Zeidler had worked out the prayers and forms for the ministerial acts after older classical models, and this too will likewise be given over to print. The whole has been produced with particular diligence and expertise. Our old Manuale ecclesiasticum of Stade has of course been taken into account in this, and especially Petri's Agende, from which the melody for the Lord's Prayer and for the Holy Supper was taken over. We hope that thereby the patchwork condition will be remedied, a greater agreement and fellowship with our dear Hanoverian brethren furthered, and a long-felt need met.

After a pause, 3 verses of "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ" were sung, and then Pastor Gust. Wyneken delivered a lecture on the meaning and high worth of the sacraments, especially with regard to the sects. The deep yet clear grasp of the subject gave general satisfaction.

With prayer and 2 verses of "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade" the meeting was closed.

After it had further been resolved for our province that colportage of Bibles and good, genuinely Lutheran books, as well as of good pictures for the furthering of family devotion, should be undertaken by 2 individuals under the general direction of certain preachers authorized thereto by higher authorities, and a joyful meal had been held, at which, as at the whole conference, to everyone's joy the two dear reverend Councilors of the Royal Consistory again took part this year as in the past, the company parted in joyful uplift with thanks toward God and in heightened fellowship with one another.

Consequences of the Romanizing of the English Protestants. Thus writes the "Protestantische Kirchenzeitung" of Berlin: "The English Catholic paper 'Tablet' recently published a list of nearly 400 persons who have gone over to Catholicism, mostly peers, baronets, knights, and other persons of a certain standing in the world. But what is worse, the Christian Times (a Protestant paper) remarks, not without justice, that if the names of members of the two Protestant universities Oxford and Cambridge, and of their wives and relatives, were subtracted, few others would remain. The institutions of higher learning, then, which above all, both through their historical origin and as seats of the scholarly progress inseparably bound up with Protestantism, ought to be the protectors and disseminators of Protestantism, are becoming nurseries for the Catholic spirit, and that through nothing else than the theological direction they have taken." We add: and through a judgment of God upon them for not having received the love of the truth, so that they now become so blind that they can no longer see the thousand upon thousand abominations of the antichristian papacy.

The German Methodist fellowship. A certain Mr. Ph. Kuhl and J. Walther write from Quincy, Illinois, in the "Christlicher Apologete" of December 20 of last year and following, as follows: "Looking back a few years, we find that our work is no longer crowned with as great success as in former years. The question often arises: what may be the cause of this? — There are many reasons for it, one of which our Savior himself expresses in the words of Luke 16:8: For the children of this world are wiser than the children of light in their generation. For several years now we have found among the immigrants many German men of scientific education who, unfortunately, misuse almost every branch of science to spread and defend the greatest unbelief through public lectures, pamphlets, and newspapers, and to give currency to their godless principles. These enemies the church has, in general, regarded as one