# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1856_S61
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Miscellaneous Church News. 61

was for these reasons: "I am reported to stand in contradiction to the Baden state government, and to perform functions in united parishes, encroaching upon the office of united pastors!!" In that Synodal Commissie they had read only the Darmstadt Church Gazette, and had absorbed poison from Schenkel's passionate attacks upon the Baden Lutherans. — I now had occasion myself to instruct a member of the Synodal Commissie better; the rejecting resolution was, however, not withdrawn! — Nevertheless our cause preached more loudly than if my weak mouth had spoken! In the very service in which I was to have preached, P. Lentz, the faithful confessor, offered, in a filled church, a deeply moving prayer for the struggling Lutheran Church of Baden. On Tuesday, September 19th, however, a general assembly of the Lutheran church association was held, in which I spoke for over an hour, and reported especially on our church struggle. Brother Bornscheuer of Vaals, who was likewise present in Amsterdam, also spoke, on Psalm 138. Pastor Lentz spoke in the Dutch language and closed with a moving prayer. At the close of the assembly a fellow-feeling made itself known which I shall never forget, and which was deeply humbling to me. I departed again the next morning with the conviction that in this famous city of the sea and of trade, too, the Lutheran Zion flourishes. P. Eichhorn.

Miscellaneous Church News.

Herrnhutianism. On May 5th of last year the local Herrnhuter, or Moravians, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, held a provincial synod, which has issued a memorial that we find, in German translation, in the "Brüder-Blatt" (January issue of this year), where among other things it reads as follows: "In practice we distinguish ourselves from all other confessions in doctrine by this, that we let the blood and wounds of Jesus constitute our entire compass of doctrine, whereas this blood-theology (as we Brethren call it) makes up only a part of the doctrine of our sister churches, in that they — more or less — insist on other points of doctrine besides this foundation of the apostles and prophets ... Our American branch of the Unitas Fratrum may not, therefore, any more than the whole Brethren's Church, compare itself with other churches (it is incomparable), nor may it strive for agreement with them (it agrees only with Christ)." — Here we are reminded of what the godly Bengel already wrote: "As regards the doctrine, it is to be considered that the 'Brethren' place the whole matter upon the blood of the Lord, whereas they ought rather to consider the point 'much more,' Rom. 8:34, and that Thomas did not stop short at the print of the nails, but from these recognized the resurrection of the Lord; likewise, in the case of a plant, if one takes the seed-leaf alone and by itself, under the pretext of its excellence, it soon withers." (See: Outline of the Brethren's Community, Stuttgart, 1751, p. 480.) In another place the same author writes: "The frequent talk of the Savior and his blood is plausible, indeed it is the seed-leaf of faith: but just as, on the face of a clock, the